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Goldray The Bassment
Goldray at the Bassment Chelmsford 7th October 2016
I had a feeling all week that something special was going
to happen on Friday night at the Bassment as Jon Morter
had contacted me and recommended the gig. I just knew
that it was going to be a magical night. I had viewed the
new single “Soulchild” on youtube and also “Outloud”
and instantly fell in love with this band. Goldray are a
psychedelic rock band with Kenwyn House formerly from
Reef on guitar, Leah Rasmussen on vocals, Geoff
Laurens on bass and Chris Hardwick on drums.
The band have been busy playing out live at various gigs and
festivals including Download festival, Bestival, Glastonbury,
Camden Rocks festival and are soon to headline the Camden
Christmas Rock bash on December the 17th. . The band are
currently finishing recording their full debut album, which is
being mixed by renowned rock producer/mix engineer Pedro
Ferreira.
The opening song was "Outloud" and this was enough to
completely captivate the audience, the mic was decorated
with flowers and Leah came on with a full 1960s -70s
looking colourful cape and danced around the stage
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making waves. I was taken right back to my early youth
back in the 70s and could have easily been in the 60s had
I been a bit older, it somewhat reminded me of Alex
Harvey gigs possibly because Leah is such a great front
performer and Kenwyn is a brilliant guitarist.
I felt very privileged in the Bassment as its not often you see
such a quality band in a very small venue, the sound was spot on
perfect and would have made a very good live recording. The
next track was "Diamond Road". Leah has a wonderful voice and
reminded me of a cross between Kate Bush and Siouxsie Sioux.
The concert continued with “Rising” that I understood
was a new song and probably my favorite of the night,
followed by "Oz"(segway) . The last song of the night was
the new single soon to be released called "Soulchild" that
saw Leah singing and lying on the stage floor to be
eventully pulled up by Kenwyn. All I can say is that this
will certainly be in my top gigs of all time and I cycled
back to Great Baddow with a smile on my face all the way
home and woke up still feeling the same. Many thanks to
Jon Morter and promoter Shakey for this one.
Maurice Hyde 2016
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Kenwyn House, Chris Hardwick & Leah Rasmussen
Kenwyn House & Leah Rasmussen
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Leah Rasmussen
Kenwyn House & Leah Rasmussen
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Kenwyn House, Chris Hardwick & Leah Rasmussen
Kenwyn House
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Kenwyn House, Chris Hardwick & Leah Rasmussen
Goldray
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