Sack Trick Live at the Leicester Oxygen Club

Review by Steve Braund
www.amplifythis.co.uk  

You can never tell how many Sack Trick will be until they actually take the stage. Tonight they are a quintet… well, sextet if you're being pernickety… we'll get to that later. Featuring the bouncy basslines of frontman Chris Dale, the automated-like drumming of Rachel Stamp's Robin Guy, and popular guitarist Chris Nubile, the band are a sight to behold tonight. Each member decked out in black and white striped burglar outfits, the band tear straight into the anthemic 'Penguins on the Moon' from their second LP of the same name.
In a short, sharp and showtastic set, the band blast through live favourites like 'Blue Ice Cream', 'My Maths Teacher's Words of Wisdom' and 'We're On Our Way Back (To Live In The Snow)', not to mention a very rocking cover of KISS's 'Cold Gin'.
To top off a very enjoyable night of alternative music with more twists than a Tool song, the band were joined onstage for the encore by a bearded fella in Gene Simmons makeup, who proceeded to decimate the venue with some guttural roars better placed in Raging Speedhorn.
KISS it wasn't. Funny it was.