Here’s a question for you, dear reader.
What do you get when you take some power-punk guitars, throw in some pop-punk choruses, and package it up in a pair of white jeans so tight that you’d struggle to get them to lend you a quid? Well, you get The XCERTs.
Now, what do you get when you take said XCERTs, throw them on a tour bus, and send them gallivanting around the country to warm up for one of Britain’s most universally beloved(-amongst-people-in-their-early-twenties) pop-rock bands?
Well, that’s when things start to get interesting.
Now, we’re going to level with you here.
When we found out that The XCERTs were supporting Busted on their huge UK arena tour, we were… Well, frankly, we were a bit confused. Call us old-fashioned, but we just couldn’t figure out how a Proper Rock band like The XCERTs would go down in front of a crowd of people whose formative musical experiences can be traced directly back to the release of Year 3000.
Despite that, though, they absolutely blew the roof off the place. Sure, they may have been playing a slightly bigger venue than they may be entirely used to – Cardiff‘s Motorpoint Arena, to be exact – but it’s a testimony to both their songcraft and frontman Murray Macleod‘s stage presence that they managed to make that cavernous and soulless corporate hangar feel like a four-hundred capacity underground venue.
That, dearest one, is what we call a proper rock band.