@ Bar Broadway: You know those nights where there seems to be 10 acts on, none of whom you really know, but all of which you wouldn’t mind checking out? Well first I scurried over to the Hopetoun, only to be told that Mess Hall had sold out. I did get a quick peek of Jed Kurzel (one half of MH) before I left, and boy, if that man wasn’t on stage he’d be all over billboards and magazines. Alright, next up The Gaelic Club. Oh, The Weekend are halfway through their set? So it was after this I arrived on Friday night at the Bar Broadway for Element, the first gig on their ‘Tour to Nowhere.’

Basing yourself in hard rock deliver some heavy guitar action, layer it with some lovely lyrics, insert a fully fledged band member on the violins to add some extra drama and you have the elements of Element. Yay! I love bands that refuse to be constrained by their genre. I think I may have even heard some funk and pop in there, or at least their take on it.

Lead singer Jamie Allan is such a cute, little, singing space cadet. Or at least he becomes one when he’s as trashed as he was that night. The best songs were when Jamie brought us excruciatingly close to climax with his soaring melodies (oh, oh, almost there) and then let us release with some solid guitar riffs or drum solos. What more can I say? Very satisfying.