Tonight is Australian band Tracer and Swedish band Royal Republic at the Underworld. Walking into the venue it’s clear that the majority of people are here for the headliners, Royal Republic – a large percentage of the crowd seems to be wearing cardboard crowns bearing the name Royal Republic.
Despite both bands being fairly new to me, they’ve drawn a big crowd – the venue is completely full, which is impressive for a mid-week gig. Tracer have been getting some good radio airplay recently and their new album (due out the day of the gig) is superb, so I was looking forwards to seeing how they’d be in a live setting.
Almost as soon as they started to play I knew they were going to be good, and that definitely proved to be the case...
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