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National RockStar JANUARY 15, 1977 Page 26

Wild wicked music from Quo

STATUS QUO
Stafford Bingley Hall

"THE SHOW will be televised" was everyone's innermost thought including the audience who were warned by Rossi: "Don't let the white light put you off it's the cameras that wanna see what you look like." Naturally the fans loved it.

The inimitable John Peel with that monotoned voice of his introduced the band who flashed on stage and into some heavybellied juicyfruity rock 'n' boogie.

The energy slapped everyone cold in the face and kicked in their heads. It seemed the hours of waiting around had all been worthwhile. Quo were brilliantly loud and fierce and dirty and ... bloody good.

They did old favourites Roll Over Lay Down, Roadhouse Blues, Caroline, and new favourites including the single Wild Side Of Life, to which everyone went ... wild.

It was a long set, almost two hours and though it had a tremendous start and finish it tended to sag in the middle as a theme was elaborated and sooner than later became tedious.

Drummer Coghlan and bassist Lancaster, the latter having a particularly good night, served as anchor men allowing Parfitt and Rossi to expound every lick in the Quo book.

Towards the end the three front men juxtaposed, their heads down in that now famous Quo stance moved to and fro like aggressive denim dogs.

Quo may not pursue the art of finesse. but who wants that anyway? They flash and flaunt their wild wicked music on stage, and even when they did a seemingly incongruous jig, it worked. Jan Iles