The Quireboys, FM, Bad Touch & VEGA

The quadruple bill of Vega, Bad Touch, along with co headliners FM and The Quireboys rolled into Glasgow for the penultimate show on the tour on Monday night.

With 4 bands on the bill meaning an early start and with traffic chaos around central Glasgow the crowd was sadly a little sparse as Vega took to the stage at 6.15. The band ran through an all too short set of numbers from recent release Only Human plus a few favourites from the past.

The hall filled up as the band reached the end of their set and crowd pleasers ‘White Flag’ and ‘Every Little Monster’ had everyone singing along.

Next up were Bad Touch, I had not caught them since they supported The Dead Daisies a few years ago at the Cathouse. Since then they have released two albums and tonight's set is mainly drawn from the most recent release Shake a Leg.

The band have built up a loyal following with a constant touring schedule and the crowd continues to swell as the band blast their way through a 7 song set that finishes with a sing along on 2016's single ‘99%’.

With the two headline acts tonight having over 60 years in the business between them both have no shortage of material to choose from so with both having 1 hour sets to fill song choice must be an impossible task.

FM are first on stage and they are as tight as ever, ‘Breathe Fire’ kicks us off and The Voice himself... Steve Overland has lost none of his vocal prowess. We move straight into two of the bands biggest hits, ‘Bad Luck’ and ‘That Girl’ before coming to the more recent ‘Life is a Highway’. The band then runs through a sadly all too short mixture of hits from the years finishing with the latest single ‘Killed by Love’ of the newest Atomic Generation album.

A quick change and we move onto the The Quireboys, another band with 30 plus years under their belt, and in Spike one of the most charismatic frontmen in the rock music business. Still full of fun and the energy of a bloke half his age, he commands the stage, dancing and playing to the crowd. With new album “Amazing Disgrace” just released we get two new songs in the shape of ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ and ‘Black Eyed Son’.

The rest of the set is drawn from the multitude of hits the band have produced over the years. No Quireboys show would be complete without the staples of ‘Hey You’, ‘7 o'clock’, ‘There She Goes Again’, ‘I Don't Love You Anymore’ or ‘Sweet Mary Anne’. The only band to get an encore, The Quireboys return with the ultimate party song... Sex Party which has the crowd singing, dancing and punching the air before heading off into the Glasgow night having been thoroughly entertained once again.

AW