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Once again The Milk Men are up bright and early for their daily round, albeit this one is for their self released live album,‘Live From Milkfest’. If you like your live albums as raw as possible, then these nine songs are a must buy!
The gig opens up with ‘Shoot The Lights’, all barroom boogie woogie that romps, stomps and chomps for three incendiary minutes of a party starting and finishing set opener, closing on a full on outro.
‘Hungover’ is one of a few tracks here taken from their 2024 studio album Holy Cow which I fully enjoyed reviewing. Huge riffs should surely shake off any hangover the following day, backed by some fleet fingered bass prowess and nifty drum patterns for a watertight rhythm section.
“This ones to you all” yells lead singer Jamie Smy as ‘Cheap Seats’ has a raspy vocal that adds venom to this gnarly number and mighty “Whoa oh oh’s” are mandatory to be sung back to the band.
‘Fabulous’ lives up to its title by breezing along on smile inducing chords from Adam Norsworthy on guitar and a precisely picked solo is one for the air guitarists.
‘Give Me A Reason’ seems to stop time for this heart wrenching ballad that dishes out some beautiful soul to melt the coldest heart.
‘One Man Band’, my favourite song from the ‘Holy Cow’ album has a slinky opening riff that scorches along on another romper stomper, showing off their heavier side, almost drowned out by a crowd fuelled midsection.
‘Little Miss Attention’ kicks off with a ballistic base bass pound from Lloyd Green, taking no prisoners from summer inducing vibes, more fretboard guitar fury, lapping up the rapturous applause.
‘Pinball Wizard’, of course the Who classic is one of the best cover versions I’ve heard, courtesy of the phenominal drumming from Mike Roberts, a real hard hitter!
Set closer ‘She Don’t Like Rock ‘N’ Roll’ is one for the headbangers that, in parts brings to mind ‘Railroad’ by Status Quo which is no bad thing, and a call and crowd response midway is well received.
Fabulous is the first single taken from The Milk Men’s new album Live At Milkfest – recorded in February ’25 at the Indigo at the O2 in London at Milkfest – the band’s very own one-day festival put on as a celebration of British Blues all in aid of the Brain Tumour Charity. Live at Milkfest will be released on May 16th. You can buy digital copies of Fabulous (Live at Milkfest) from May 2nd from Amazon, iTunes and the usual digital retailers. You can order advance copies of the Live at Milkfest album now on CD from www.themilkmenmusic.com, with 25% of all physical pre-orders going to the Brain Tumour Charity.
Released on May 16th, Live at Milkfest was recorded completely live in mono from a two-track feed from the mixing desk. The album is available to preorder on CD now from here, with 25% of physical pre-order sales will be donated to The Brain Tumour Charity. A vinyl copy will be available to order shortly.
Singer Jamie adds: “We grew up loving live albums such as The Who’s Live at Leeds, The Stone’s Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out, Queen’s Live Killers and Dr Feelgood’s Stupidity. We wanted to capture the raw feel in the performances on those albums, and we hope Live at Milkfest does that. The difference is…all of those albums were overdubbed….and ours isn’t”.
The track listing is: 1.Shoot The Lights 2. Hungover 3.Cheap Seats 4. Fabulous 5. Give Me A Reason 6. One Man Band 7. Little Miss Attention 8. Pinball Wizard 9. She Don’t Like Rock’n’Roll.
The Milk Men band personnel :-
Jamie Smy – lead Vocals.
Adam Norsworthy – Guitar.
Lloyd Green – Bass Guitar –
Mike Roberts – Drums.
http://themilkmenmusic.com The Milk Men band info.
