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Last updated 05:31, Friday, 29 August 2008
ALABAMA 3Bringing their own brand of attitude to Solfest, the outfit once dubbed the best live band in Britain, rocked the main stage.
Alabama 3 are not from Alabama, they are from Brixton, and there are nine, not three of them.
Sporting Stetsons and drawling American twangs, Alabama 3 look and sound like the cast of a Tarantino film.
With song titles such as The Night I nearly Got Busted and tongues at times firmly in their cheeks, the band preach a gospel of ballsy country, blues and acid house.
Playing on Friday to a crowd fresh and up for excitement, Alabama 3’s commanding stage presence brought the revellers to heel right from the start.
Pint-sized female vocalist, Zoe Devlin AKA Devlin Love, opened with an arresting acapella version of Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart.
The rest then stormed the stage saluting the crowd with clenched fists setting the tone for a stomping set laden with irony.
Woke Up This Morning, which plays during the opening of hit TV show, The Sopranos, drew the biggest cheers and the crowd hoed-down even harder.
Next came hits You Don’t like to Techno Anymore, I Ain’t Going to Goa and Too Sick to Pray.
And to round up the set the band belted out the electro-tinged blue grass tune - Hypo Full of Love.
SARAH NEWSTEAD
