Skin have the feelgood factor at Slade Rooms
British rockers Skin brought their Road to Download mini-tour to the Slade Rooms in Wolverhampton.
Skin
The Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton
Concert review and photos by Ian Harvey
British rockers Skin have enjoyed a second lease of life since their triumphant reunion appearance at last year's Download Festival.
Unfortunately that didn't translate into tickets sales last night, as their gig, due to be at the Wulfrun, was downgraded to the Slade Rooms.
Still for the 300-plus fans who packed into this Download 2010 warm-up concert, this was an impressive performance from a band at the top of its game, from rousing songs like the infectious House Of Love and Look But Don't Touch to the big singalongs of Tower of Strength and Shine Your Light.
There were also tracks from their forthcoming Breaking The Silence album in the shape of the brutal Born To Rock 'n' Roll, Stronger and Redemption, which suggest that Skin's rebirth is more than just a passing phase.
With such a fine frontman as Neville MacDonald and the flamboyant and quite literally muscular guitar work of Myke Gray, a performance as strong as this certainly suggests that if they play their cards right Skin could be the natural successors to the now defunct Thunder as the UK's good-time rockers of choice.
