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Virgil and the Accelerators are a stunning young blues/rock trio. People find it unbelievable that such young players can give such an intense, tight and jaw dropping live performance. They have to be witnessed to be believed.

A string of high profile support slots (9 Below Zero, Eric Sardinas, The Blues Band, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Kim Wilson plus others) has put them in front of the right people to take them to the next level. 2010 is the year the band will get wide recognition, with some high profile gigs and of course the 'New Generation UK Blues Tour' with Oli Brown and Joanne Shaw Taylor.

The band has a rare ability to get into a song and turn it inside out. Live gigs are always full of surprises with Virgil often 'going off on his own thing' with the confidence that Tom and Gabriel will be right with him.

Do not miss up a chance to see these guys, standing iovations and encores are the norm, even for support roles. Something very exciting is a happening here that has not been seen for along time.

Quotes:

Planet Rock quote ''I have never seen a support band get a standing ovation and encore, Virgil is spectacular on guitar''

So far so good, but then came the stellar moment of the evening with a complete rework of ‘Voodoo Chile’. You might catch any number of bands reworking this nugget, but the Virgil’s trio made it something altogether different. And here in a nutshell is their unique selling point. Virgil band may be a power trio but they are a ‘feel’ led jam band with a rare ability to draw on a related number of influences in the course of one song. The middle section saw Virgil almost bent double at the front of the stage holding down some spacey stained notes and slipping into some 50’s pastiche - think The Shadows meet The Ventures - before submerging the whole number in a psychedelic guitar wash

For a London debut this was pretty impressive stuff. For such a young band the playing was as intuitive as it was spell binding. But above all Virgil & The Accelerators have an ability to get inside a song and turn in into something else. If in the fullness of time they can add more of their own songs they will really be on to something

***** (5/5)

© Pete Feenstra www.getreadytorock.com