Circus Of Power / Junkyard / Warrior Soul

New York Brooklyn The Kingsland

Triple-header of rock at its sleaziest.

Warrior Soul are still the greatest band that never made it, and while frontman Kory Clarke is the sole hold-out from their 80s ascent, he’s lost none of his feral energy or mouth for war. The band play a couple songs from the brand new Back On The Lash, but mostly deliver on the hits.

Junkyard have a new album and a growing Turbojujend-esque following, and they make the most of both with a furiously head-banging set of their southern-fried riff-rock.

While a chunk of the crowd disperse after Junkyard’s set, the remainder are absolutely ravenous Circus Of Power fans, and the band feed off the energy, delivering a loose but undeniably raucous set that includes a few tracks from their storming new album Four (Fast And Easy, Hard Drivin’ Sister) alongside plenty of classic nuggets, among them Mama Tequila and White Trash Queen.

Original Circus Of Power drummer Ryan Maher sits in for the finale, which sees the band tear into a blazing rendition of Vices and an absolutely bonkers run-through of Motor, wherein frontman Al Mitchell invites the entire crowd up to sing along, and the entire goddamn crowd takes him up on it.

You can grouse about the death of rock’n’roll all you want, but on the evidence of tonight’s show, apparently sleaze metal is gonna live forever.