Friday Night Gunfight

After Secta Rouge’s awesome mini-album Pathologica Fantastica a month or so back, another local spazz-meta-mathematics-core band drops a joint that borders on downright rudeness. Since when did Edinburgh have such an awesome scene? If this is what the Cold Dead Hands collective have been up to, then they can surely lay claim to music that shames any American band, from NoMeansNo to Nasum, doing this stuff. Taking a nosebleed dive right into ferocious hardcore, Friday Night Gunfight clamber their way out with some thrash jazz tectonics and head-bending riff physics… and they even dare to go all post-rock wall-of-noise at the end, lending a tremendous psychedelia to the violence. Vocalist Gus's lungs scrape, roar, shout and tear their way over the ever changing battery, a fact brought out by some spot-on production. Maybe one day, if they’re really (un?)lucky, they might even achieve the hallowed status of Kerrang! darlings. - Ali Maloney - The Skinny



"The problem with gunfight, is that they're so good at what they do, that it actually makes being in any band playing in that style locally kinda redundant. You're only ever gonna be a poorman's version, so play something else." - Kingmob



"Listening to this last was like eating a footlong meatball sub from Subway after having nothing but mince pies from Greggs all week." - Chun Chun Joe



"You guys are really good but it's just not my sort of thing. I'd probably like you a lot more if you slowed down by like. a tenth". - Tim Holehouse

The crowd were up for it, the band were up for it, the stars aligned and carnage ensued. Guss is a terrifying frontman (and I mean that in a good way). The way he eyes the audience makes you think he's going to step offstge and break you in half. He actually made a fair attempt to do just that, with repeated charges into the brave folk up front. I don't know any of the words to FNGF songs but every time Guss came near me I felt like I had to grab the mike and scream.The band were tight as hell. Absolutely precise with every beat and note and riffs that tied my head in knots, such was the mathematical nature of their tuneage. It was a truly engaging performance and the best one I've seen from a local band since I moved to the capital. I felt quite bad for Zillah having to try and follow Gunfight. Most people seemed spent by the time they came on and I think only Sick Of It All could've followed FNGF and been better than them on this night. - James, Attack The Hive.



A bit of 'Bobby Simpson's Tone Patrol'



Most of 'Foaming At The Mouth and Running At Pigeons'