Let me start by saying that a night of borderline metal core isn’t the way I would usually chose to spend my only night off, however, with the buzz over recently formed Safe Hands, together with the fact that I loved Riviera at Newcastles’ Strikeback Festival tonight’s line-up was too good a show to miss. … I hate to say it, however, Mesha are a band who should stick to playing covers, I feel that they are trying too hard to emulate classic pop-rock bands, and in doing so their originals just aren’t original, its all been heard before.
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