#blue deep ruby

The recently reformed Moses played their first headline set at The Water Rats in Kings Cross on 7 July 2018, with support from Blue Deep Ruby.

You’re in an underground bunker. The decor is a halfway home between a country pub and that scene from Ghostbusters where the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man explodes and the loos have a sulphuric smell that surely takes years off of your life expectancy. Why, it could only be a London live music venue.

So, what of Blue Deep Ruby? Opening with a solo guitar and vocal number shows off lead singer Gianfra Chimienti’s whiskey soaked vocal. Once the band join, however, all ties to Billy Bragg and Bob Dylan are dissipated. The four piece (normally five) sound like a hybrid of classic rock and modern indie which is just a little too pretty for a Nirvana comparison.

Vocals are still the centrepoint, with a raunch that evokes Lemmy just as much as the modern indie scene that the band are more suited to. Sadly, and I suspect due to the dodgy sound system coupled with the language barrier, a lot of the lyrics themselves are lost in translation.

But, in a room filled with a smorgasbord of people, all left cheerily. And in a Central London bar, I promise it wasn't cause the beer was cheap!