THE STANDARD LAMPS
The Standard lamps – The George Hotel – Friday 4TH SEPTEMBER – 7.30 PM
The Standard Lamps are a three piece band from East Sussex/Kent. With a hard rocking’ sound somewhere between ‘The Who By Numbers’ and Dr. Feelgood’s ‘Down By the Jetty’, lanky light bearded front man Mike Wilton susceptible to squawking on a harp and picking blue grass on his SG, the Lamps are reassuringly old-fashioned, as their self-released album ‘Sell Everything You Own’ attests.
Pat Gilbert in MOJO magazine describes them as – ‘The Who of 40 years ago’ adding ‘Guitarist Mike Wilton sharing Townshend’s easy way with a big crowd, and teasing everything from scratchy skiffy rhythms to hard, proggy riffs from a cherry red SG. A three-piece, they are tight and bluesy, with Wilton riffing on his harmonica, but they’re also able to deftly channel The Jam’s angled, modernist pop when they want to.’