Accident Music are an extremely mad four piece hard rock band that, according to their MySpace page, set out to “deliver honest British rock music”, and judging by what I heard and saw during their set at 10 Feet Tall they are succeeding.I should probably mention that prior to going to the gig I had no idea they were going to be playing and to be completely honest had never heard of them until about 2 minutes before they started playing. 

Because of that, I think it’s fair to say that my expectations weren’t very high. In fact they were pretty low and with the benefit of hindsight I can say they were also completely wrong, as Accident Music were about to unleash a wild, brutal and quite unexpected spectacle.

I can’t remember the names of any of the songs, but I can remember that they were good, heavy, hard rock songs with lots of screaming guitar solos and plenty of distortion just the way it should be.  They were a bit loose but I put that down to the fact that they had a new drummer who had only learnt the songs a couple of hours before the gig.

Their loud and aggressive music was complemented perfectly by the zany, outlandish antics of their extraordinarily eccentric frontman, who was sporting a rather fetching pair of skinny jeans and a shirt with a quote of Aldous Huxley “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach” scribbled across the front of it. DEEP.

The problem with having this kind of crazy genius on a stage in front of a crowd of drunken people is that at least one of the aforementioned drunkards will inevitably decide to take the piss, which one of them did, in the form of mocking the frontman’s accent.  Which I didn’t really understand because his accent didn’t sound all that weird to me, and if I was a drunken fool looking to take the piss I would have gone for saying something about his startling resemblance to Joey Ramone.  So I say shame on the heckler and his unimaginative idiocy, after all onstage lunacy makes for great photos.

So all in all they played a good set and are a good band, and although I do think they could use some more practice they have great energy and stage presence which counts for a lot and goes a long way to creating a great gig.