Burn The City

Burn the City is the brain child of Blood Duster's Matt Collins and
Bodyjar's Tom Read. The Full line up on this their debut effort is Collins
on Guitar, Harish Chhabria on drums, Read on vocals/guitar and Grand Relf on
Bass/vocals. Its a little ripper, with everything from melodies to metal.

The melodious tracks are catchier than an STD and you'll end up itiching to
sing along. Take my own personal facourite, in fact my new favourite song
full stop. A Hero's Welcome. I defy you not to roar along to that chorus.
Word to the wise though; learn the words if you're going to do it in your
own car with the windows down at traffic lights. >From experience there's a
fair chance you'll attract a higher class of audience with the actual
lyrics., "... shed all acoun-ta-bi-ll-ty" as opposed to my wrongly
interpreted "...shan-na-a c**** is ill at ease".

Then you've got the darker, heavier stuff. Take tracks We Won't Listen or
Jerk On One End; the more sinister chords adding an enormous weight.
They've taken all the good stuff from the original pop-punk sound an have
given it a metal injection, just enough of a dose to kill the sickly
sweetness too many bands of this breed are infected by.

Bottom line, buy it or burn it, just get your grubby little hands all over
this one. It's Fu@king top shelf stuff and thats not in the news agents'
dodgy magaxine way.

Written by Mar Garvey, in "The Drum Media" 31st October 2006, Issue 827. - Mar Garvey - Drum Media

Change Of Face and The Critics have both been reviewed in this here rag zillions of times in the past couple of years, so little can be said now that hasn’t already......??A band that haven’t been reviewed to death, mostly because they’ve never been here before, are Bodyjar/Blood Duster offshoot Burn The City.??Akin to Bodyjar more than Blood Duster, Burn The City play back-to-back catchy rock songs, that are built upon the same kind of solid pop foundations Bodyjar’s are. Tight and powerful, though very giddy and piss-takey, Burn The City are a full-throttle rock band made up of guys for whom the stage is a place to have fun. Although they are somewhat flawless performers, Burn The City know when to stop concentrating on playing their songs, and when to start performing them. Similarly, they know when to stop fucking around and actually get down to brass tacks. ??Playing material familiar only to those who frequent the band’s Myspace page (for whatever reason the band’s album is not effectively distributed in WA yet), Burn The City charged through their set with gusto. Current single, and definite signature tune for the moment, Reflex Action, inspired many punters to sing along (including a guest stage spot from Change Of Face’s Rowan Robinson) indicating that Burn The City have made an impact on Perth punters, even before getting here. ??Set up to establish the band, this initial tour may have stung Burn The City a tiny bit, as its members are used to playing to capacity crowds in their ‘day job’ bands, but their conduct on and off the stage will prove invaluable for future tours. Great guys as well as a great band, Burn The City made a lot of new friends and fans alike on this tour, and given better album distro and some frequent visits, it’s highly likely they will become one of the handful of touring bands Perth effectively adopts as home-towners. On a small scale, that is essentially what happened over this weekend, as yet another great band touched down in Perth, and became honorary citizens.
_MIKE WAFER
Posted on October 11, 2006 07:23 PM
- Xpress Magazine (WA)

Burn The City is the brainchild of Blood Duster’s Matt Collins and Bodyjar’s Tom Read. The full line-up on this, their debut effort, is Collins on guitar, Harish Chhabria on drums, Read on vocals/guitar and Grant Relf on bass/vocals. It’s a little ripper, with everything from melodies to metal.

The melodious tracks are catchier than an STD and you’ll end up itching to sing along. Take my own personal favourite, in fact my new favourite song full stop, A Hero’s Welcome. I defy you not to roar along to that chorus. Word to the wise though; learn the words if you’re going to do it in your car with the windows down at the traffic lights. From experience there’s a fair chance you’ll attract a higher class of audience with the actual lyrics, ‘… shed all accoun-ta-bi-li-ty’ as opposed to my wrongly interpreted ‘… shan-na a c*** is ill at ease’.

Then you’ve got the darker, heavier stuff. Take tracks We Won’t Listen or A Jerk On One End; the more sinister chords adding an enormous weight. They’ve taken all the good stuff from the original pop-punk sound and have given it a metal injection, just enough of a dose to kill the sickly sweetness too many bands of this breed are infected by.

Bottom line, buy it or burn it, just get your grubby little hands all over this one. It’s fucken top shelf stuff and that’s not in the newsagents’ dodgy magazine way.

MAR GARVEY
- Drum Media (NSW)