© Pedro Roque

If Randy Holden and John Nitzinger had gone through some
sort of genetic experiment, this is what the result would be. Seriously one of
the best live bands out there, Radio Moscow provide a high class psych boogie
like no other group right now.

Drinking from the same fountains as many others, this
overpowered trio play with such a tightness that one might think ‘What if King
Crimson just wanted to play the blues?’. On the other hand, ‘What if Blue Cheer
wanted to be prog rock?’. Injecting colourful tones to a never quite
feedbacking guitar, the grooviness that exudes out from the speakers melts
everybody into a bodily mass of coolness.

Radio Moscow know what they are doing and the set goes
through their released discography and beyond. With new songs ‘Death Of A
Queen’ and ‘Rancho Tehama Airport’ from their next record ‘The Magical Dirt’,
Radio Moscow mix old and new material seamlessly. A massive highlight is their
version of Brain Police’s ‘Gypsy Fast Woman’. It’s like the song was written
all that time ago and linger in obscurity just for Radio Moscow to play it now
and claim it their own.

The thing is, it’s not just blues and heavy psych that this
particular radio transmits. As said earlier, the tightness is such and so
effortless that it amazes everyone who is lucky to see Radio Moscow live.
Classic but inventive, they often get locked in a groove that lingers on and on
up until there’s a drum/bass/guitar fill that returns the main theme of the
song Radio Moscow are playing. In turn, the entranced audience gets a release
of energy that bursts out like strong explosives on New Year’s Eve. Radio
Moscow are just like intrinsic flameworks in the form and shape of humans armed
with instruments.

© Pedro Roque

Also, when was the last time one went to a show and got
presented with a drum solo? All the classic ingredients are there for a time
travel to when drum solos were actually good and not just mere indulgence.

Sometimes, the sound becomes so fat that it just runs down
the walls like grease on a truck stop diner’s kitchen on a seedy restaurant and
for the sold out crowd of the perfectly sized Stairway Club, there was no
escape

This was one of the most unbelievably good concerts I have
ever attended. In fact, it was so good that a new adjective has to be made up
to qualify the quality of such a show. Radio Moscow should be placed up high as
any of the greats people regard as cornerstones of heavy rock. They have soul,
talent and songs of unearthly quality and groove. What a night, man! What a
night.

© Pedro Roque

Report made by Carlos Ferreira/2014

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