Frankie and the Witch Fingers – Live at Levitation (self release) – Their midsummer hothouse of a gig here in East London last June was one of the shows of the year, they seriously rocked the joint with fizzing punk-fuelled garage flavoured space rock, people who were there are still talking about that Frankie and the Witch Fingers at Hackney’s Oslo. They were heavy, they were righteous, they were wired, they got us wired, they were right in the zone and really we could just run that live review again in terms of the 2022 live set they’ve just let loose on very limited (multi-coloured) vinyl. This live set leans heavily on their recent Data Doom album, this is wired and raw, not overly raw though, this is not some bootleg quality throw out, this is the real deal,feel the heat! Hang on, here’s what we said about the gig last Summer…

The venue is hot before the band add to the brew, one of the hottest nights of the year so far, perfect night for some wired garage flavoured punked up locked on proper psych rock.  And it is a brew, there’s a lot in here, a whole host of flavour that ultimately adds up to something slightly different. A whole bag of tasty ingredients, whole lumps of Pink Fairies, healthy bits of the new wave side of late 70’s Hawkwind (Pinkwind anyone?), early Motorhead (which of course was a kind of Hawkwind/Pink Fairies Larry Wallis/Lemmy flavoured thing anyway) all flowing around a sometimes regimented sometimes very punky riff-heavy garage-driven Stooges/MC5 tinged primordial groove that they claim comes “Bubbling up from the psychedelic tar pits of L.A.”. There’s some very big riffs here, a chemistry flowing between the four of them, the groove is right, righteous, is there some Primal Scream in there with their slightly proggy synths and angular guitar harmonies? Whatever it is they’re not hanging around, the Witch Fingers really are a band in a hurry, they don’t take long to get things moving, the walls are dripping… here’s the whole review from last year – ORGAN THING: L.A’s Frankie And The Witch Fingers hit Hackney and Mid Summer with some seriously proper locked-on psyched-up garage rock and roll…

This is a damn fine live album, only thnig missing is that Stooges bit they blew Hackney apart last Summer…

Find the live album on Bandcamp