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 Wild Paths 2025:  Day 2 Evening Pleasure Inc. spitting fire At last a decent picture of my own for a review, as luck would have it. The second Wild Paths event of this year's festival presented a lively crowd with another three acts: Chest, Canned Pineapple and Pleasure Inc. To put it simply, this was a fun night out.  Chest were refreshing to the ears after last night's intensive aural workout.  With audible lyrics, tunes, chorus, who would have known that such ingredients were a recipe for a good time?  As proponents of shoe gaze that leans towards the poppie side of that style, Chest are a band who engage with the audience through lively songs, structured in a standard form: guitar intro, singer comes in with a verse that blends into chorus, then round we go again. The songs are delivered by a front man who makes extended elegant shapes with his long limbs, emphasising his emotional input to the act. Each number gives the instrumentalists room to feed in ex...

Wild Paths: Day One Evening Voodoo Daddy's Showroom, London Street Headliners, The Empty Threats Definitely an evening for the ear plugs. Three post punk noise bands in a row, poses the old question of how to organise a night's entertainment when the performers are doing much the same thing. Of the three sets tonight, openers Feasts , were able to offer something substantially different with drums (Ben), guitar and a small keyboard, (Connor).  If you think, White Stripes in reverse, i.e. drums taking the lead, driving the truck with the guitar providing some tonal depth, you will have some idea of the instrumental power and output of these two.  Ben's drumming is quite something to behold. Essentially, this set was a series of amped up drum and percussion solos, never dull, that take the part of the planet's original. primordial musical device to the extremes of its capacity, whilst still remaining inside the boundary of what might be recognisable as music. With rhythms...