Red Zephyr rocks The Park, Colwyn Bay

Red Zephyr may have blown into The Park on a cool, calm west wind that November (17^th) night, but the band soon whipped up a hard rocking tropical storm within the first few minutes of their two-part set. Tunes from The Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, Thunder, AC/DC, Queen, Led Zeppelin amongst others, plus some excellent original material had the crowd going wild - so much so the first 45-minute-long set went by in a flash.

The lads put an extremely credible act, with fluent, melodic lead guitar, thumping bass, driving drums and the multi-instrumental rhythm guitarist also playing excellent soaring keyboards. This tight-knit instrumental fusion was topped off with the closest thing to a Robert Plant’s vocal I’ve heard in years.

The band comprises a new drummer in the form of John Rogowski – his first show and he played brilliantly,  Arthur Holden vocals (also lead vocal for Led Zep tribute band, Mothership), Chris Price-White on Stingray bass, lead guitarist Graham Davies (also guitars for Box of Frogs), Fred Eastwood on guitars and keyboard (also multi-instrumentalist with Mothership).

Song flowed from one to another and the crowd’s reaction to the band’s original material was positive; this no doubt will spur them to produce more of this quality in future.

Next time the Red Zephyr blows into town, be sure to catch it. (Some talk of them appearing at The Park on 2^nd February 2013.)