New Blood Festival 2012 - Night Seven Reviewed

Norwich's Fever Fever are the perfect kick-start to the seventh night of the New Blood Festival, assaulting the motionless room with the grungy, turbulent guitar riff of 'Health'. Undoubtedly on fine form, the three-piece even encourage some movement among the early evening crowd with new single 'Pins', and its eerie guitar ostinatos, vicious drumming, and simultaneous chants.

Channelling the likes of Jefferson Airplane and Black Sabbath, Purson certainly scream of the '70s (*cough, bell bottoms, cough*). Their psychedelic rock and post-hippie image mark them out as the most unique band of the night, with elements of blues and even folk doing battle with Ram Jam-style breakdowns.

Lastly, Cold In Berlin don't so much take to the stage as they do lunge themselves into the crowd, with singer Maya determined to loosen up the indefinitely stiff audience. Unexpectedly, she prevails too: before long the curse of the stiff-neck is broken, and heads are banging, feet are tapping, and bodies are conspicuously swaying.

The band's tunes, among them the fantastic 'God I Love You', vibrate through the room, engulfing the audience in flames of dark, vivacious energy. Night seven of New Blood has kicked ass.