Bands often get an affinity with certain places they tour, for Tracer that place seems to be Sheffield with a sold out gig at Plug. Before the scantily clad teenagers and twenty-somethings spilled drunkenly out of taxis into the venue and Tracer tore through the smoke that resembled a fireman’s …
Read More »The Answer with Tracer and Cage the Gods – Concorde 2, Brighton – 27/10/2013
As I ventured out onto Brighton seafront ahead of the onset of St Jude for my fifth concert in five days, it seemed the storm would not only be brewing outside Concorde 2 but inside as well. Local band Cage the Gods were concluding their run of support dates on …
Read More »Tracer with Cage The Gods – Scala, London – 10th June 2013
Tracer returned to our shores this week for the first of two visits this year and, having waded our way through the confusion of the Kings Cross station re-development (there’s a different way to go every time we come here) we headed across to the second night of their headline …
Read More »Tracer – El Pistolero
El Pistolero means literally, the gunman. More figuratively, it’s taken to mean “a pistol”: someone with a quick fiery temper, who’s unpredictable, or has an angry streak. With that in mind, I eagerly popped Tracer‘s new one in the CD player, hoping for an album with hints of unpredictability or …
Read More »Interview with Tracer, London, April 2012
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with the guys from Australian band Tracer the night before they played the first show on their first UK headline tour. London Underground had done their best to stop me getting to the hotel by closing the central line, but luckily I …
Read More »Tracer & Littlecrazy – Islington Academy, 24th April 2012
Tonight was the first night of Australian band Tracer’s first UK headlining tour. They were in the UK last late last year supporting Royal Republic, and are now back. It’s impressive – less than six months ago they were the support band at the Underworld, but now they’re headlining the …
Read More »Photos of Tracer and Littlecrazy at Islington academy, April 2012
Here are a few photos of Tracer performing at Islington Academy on 24th April 2012 on their first UK headline tour. Support came from Sheffield band Littlecrazy – photos below the Tracer pics. %%wppa%% %%slide=298%% %%wppa%% %%slide=295%%
Read More »TRACER ‘Spaces In Between’ cd
I have to say, i had to pick up the cd cover to make sure I had the right cd in the player, as the press release says “Tracer” fall into the “grunge” category, I totally disagree, they are more classic rock, certainly more like Velvet Revolver, than Nirvana. A …
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