The Valkarys at the Dog and Parrot 22/11/08

Short but sweet? Try short but simply spectacular. This 25 minute gig managed to rock the foundations of the Dog and Parrot in a short period of time providing mesmerising lyrics, powerful guitar solos and practically perfect drum structure. The Valkarys started their tour in Edinburgh with their new song Candy Girl, which already has 12000 hits on MySpace music. Even though they only had a small stage, no whiskey, no brandy and a 25 minute slot they were able to turn this seemingly small gig into a psycaldelic rock show. Playing some incredible songs such as their new single Candy Girl which included such unique and powerful vocals combined with an astonishing guitar and percussion concoction. Ending the night with my favourite of they’re tracks Protect and Serve, the band were able to get the crowd going wild young and old alike, while producing ear candy for all the listeners . It was a fantastic night by a fantastic band.
Never mind just being incredible artists the band were nice enough to let me interview them in their amazing tour bus, who needs the Iron Maiden tour plane when you have they’re bad boy bus. As they were going on stage soon I picked the best of the million questions in my mind to ask them such as my interest in they’re name. “The name is from the plot to kill Hitler but we changed the spelling around”, Scott, the lead singer answered. They have a sixties feel with influence such as Brain Jonestown and the Beetles its no wonder this band is able to produce such fantastic music. After a series of questions my final one was to find out what was the next step for the band. “We plan on getting an EP out with around 6 tracks, we also plan on getting into the student circuit”, the manager answer. Well I can say this they are very welcome to come back to this university. Check them out yourself!
Review by Aron Riordan