MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
	My Vitriol Roadhouse 6/7/00)

`Big things for a big bank.’ we're told by a Welshman

Big sounds by big boys (and girl) for big boys (and girls).  Big tunes such as the next single `Concrete’.   Big ballads that, if they are ballads, are disguised in a big cloak of guitars, bass and drums

No small sounds, they must be big, big enough to lift the eager, bouncing crowd up and down in a big seething mass.

Big above their stature.  Big in ambition.  A big, fast feast of distorted sounds mutated though big guitar sound boards of Som Wardner & Seth Taylor, mounted on the small stage

A lone bouncer patrols the `No Entry’ zone around the stage, but his presence  isn’t big enough to halt the regular surges from the fresh faced crowd and regular appearances are put in by the roadies to re-erect Carolyn Banister’s mic stand

Boldly rising above the mediocrity of the blanket of indie sounds but will the rise high enough above the parapet of commerciality to become really big and not just join the list of good indie type bands who never really made it.

There’s a big presence from the local music scene, with Gold Blade, Oceansize, Morning Star, Elbow etc. getting a look at the newest recruits to the `Next Big Thing’ label. 

Carolyn displays her credentials for admission to the `School of Bassists That Don’t Stand in One Place  with an energetic display of body wrenching.

My Vitriol are not small

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