The Datsuns - Camden Dingwalls February 15th exclusive Paul Slattery Photographs

Christian from The Datsuns - Photo by Paul Slattery

I have to admit that Paul Slattery and I were at the gig primarily to see Free Fall, I didn't know that much about The Datsuns to be honest. I've seen them live once or twice before and have a couple of tracks here and there, but I'm not so up on their story or back catalogue. However, what I do know is that they are a phenomenal live band and I thoroughly enjoyed their high voltage set, as evidently did the packed out Dingwalls crowd. The gig was a complete sell-out, even though Free Fall were barely advertised, and outside the ticket touts were frantically trying to buy tickets themselves. There was much stage-diving and crowd-surfing as the band served up a frantic set of finely-tuned MC5, Hellacopters style freak-out rock. My personal highlight being the pounding anthem "Harmonic Generator" which lifted the roof off Dingwalls. I took up a safe position at the side of the stage but Paul was right in the thick of it, and he thoroughly enjoyed the experience! So, here are some of Paul Slattery's photo and a few of mine too, hope you like them...We'd both like to say a big thank you to The Datsuns for being so nice to us interlopers!

Phil and Dolf with blissed out crowd - Photo by Paul Slattery

The Datsuns - Photo by Paul Slattery

Christian, Ben and Dolf of The Datsuns - Photo by Paul Slattery

The Datsuns - Photo by Paul Slattery

The Datsuns by Steve Worrall

The Datsuns by Steve Worrall

The Datsuns by Steve Worrall

The Datsuns Photo by Steve Worrall

All photos Copyright Paul Slattery 2013 & Steve Worrall Retro Man Blog 2013 as noted.

Free Fall - The first UK appearance Friday February 15th at London Camden Dingwalls

Free Fall, the Swedish Heavy Rock "Super-Group", will be making their very first live U.K. appearance this Friday, February 15th at Dingwalls in Camden, London as support to The Datsuns.

Free Fall's debut album "Power & Volume" is out on February 22nd on Nuclear Blast Records. Free Fall were started by guitarist Mattias Bärjed – while playing guitar with The Soundtrack of Our Lives - as he felt the urge to form a classic four piece band (drums, guitar, bass, lead vocals), that would play straight-up heavy Rock 'n' Roll. As far as a musical direction, there was a clear intention to sound like a mix between early Van Halen, The Stooges and The Who. Other obvious influences on the band would be rock classics such as Led Zeppelin, UFO, AC/DC and Judas Priest to name a few. First in line to join the band was long time friend and ex-Nymphet Noodlers band-mate Jan Martens on Bass, who was to be joined shortly after by Drummer, Ludwig Dahlberg (ex-International Noise Conspiracy and Mattias Hellberg's White Moose). The last and very vital piece of the Free Fall puzzle was lead singer Kim Fransson, who has that raw vocal style of Steve Marriott and Bon Scott.
 

Free Fall live in Paris - Photo by Steve Worrall

The latest issue of Classic Rock magazine has a full page feature on the band and the track "Free Fall" is at Number One on their "Heavy Rotation" chart. You can also check out the Retro Man Blog review of Free Fall's May gig at La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris here and read all about Mattias Bärjed's soundtrack to the new political thriller "Call Girl" here. Also available to listen to and download for free is our exclusive interview with Mattias on this very special edition of Retrosonic Podcast.

Free Fall Photos on the flyer copyright Steve Worrall Retro Man Blog 2013.