One Night Only – Started A Fire
Having planted seeds of intrigue in minds of the indie crew, through a tour in support of The Pigeon Detectives, North East foragers One Night Only seek to harvest the fruits of this interest through their ten track debut album of disco tainted, melody based and life assessing indie. Signs are appearing to indicate that they could become 2008’s Air Traffic. In the sense that they do enough to build upon and wander off from, their aching, melodic indie grind of a foundation. With the use of climbing keyboards akin to Duke Special in ‘It’s About Time’ and ‘You and Me’, demonstrating such adventure. Also, some funky Style Council flavour brass emboldens the range, stopping the quintet from sinking into a wound licking, complaint-heavy rut.
A brittle and twining Billy Bragg flavoured intro’ gives ‘He’s There’ some spice and broadness, allowing George Craig to give his vocals a hurried, slightly frantic nudge to draw out paranoia and jealousy. Given the range, pitch and cohesion on offer, even the customary pleading plunge, ‘Time’ retains some freshness and its bleeding heart nature is communicated with an earthy friendliness. The cheese factor nearly gets toppled through ‘Sweet Sugar’, but set against the rest of the climbing explorative releases, it just adds to the completeness of a debut album that will stay on playlists longer than many this year.
The sold out signs are going up at several venues on their biggest headline tour to date this January through to March. One Night Only could make these months the winter of melodic discontent.
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Catch One Night Only live;
26 Jan 2008 19:00 Arts Centre 14+ Norwich
27 Jan 2008 19:30 12 Bar 14+ Swindon
29 Jan 2008 19:30 Joiners 14+ Southampton
30 Jan 2008 19:30 Fez Club 14+ Reading
31 Jan 2008 19:30 Audio 16+ Brighton
01 Feb 2008 22:30 Club NME @Koko 18+ London
02 Feb 2008 20:00 Chinnerys 16+ Southend
05 Feb 2008 19:30 The Academy 14+ Bristol
06 Feb 2008 19:30 The Barfly 14+ Cardiff
09 Feb 2008 19:30 Soundhaus 14+ Northampton
10 Feb 2008 20:00 The Graduate 15+ Cambridge
11 Feb 2008 19:30 The Academy 14+ Birmingham
12 Feb 2008 19:30 The Barfly 14+ Liverpool
14 Feb 2008 19:30 53 Degrees 18+ Preston
15 Feb 2008 19:30 Sugarmill 14+ Stoke
16 Feb 2008 19:30 Fusion 14+ Sheffield
18 Feb 2008 19:30 The Academy 14+ Newcastle
19 Feb 2008 19:30 Cafe Drummond 14+ Aberdeen
20 Feb 2008 19:30 Oran Mor 14+ Glasgow
21 Feb 2008 19:30 Fat Sams 14+ Dundee
23 Feb 2008 19:30 Rescue Rooms 14+Nottingham
24 Feb 2008 19:30 Cockpit 14+ Leeds
25 Feb 2008 19:30 The Academy 14+ Manchester
26 Feb 2008 19:30 Kings College 14+ London
27 Feb 2008 19:30 The Academy 14+Oxford
29 Feb 2008 19:30 The Charlotte 14+Leicester
01 Mar 2008 19:30 Fibbers 15+ York
02 Mar 2008 19:30 Fibbers 15+ York
04 Mar 2008 19:30 The Sugar Club 18+ Dublin