Frank Carter And The Rattlesnakes live in Manchester. Feb ’22. (Gary Mather)
Frank Carter was in Manchester on February 9th.
Frank Carter And The Rattlesnakes will be in Europe and North America after wrapping up their UK tour later this month with extensive live work planned following the release of Dark Rainbow in January.
“Dark Rainbow follows its predecessor Sticky after three years in which the duo mused over whether to make another album at all,” our review reads.
“Written during lockdown and featuring the likes of Joe Talbot and Bobby Gillespie, Sticky was a waspish, hedonistic blur of a record but this latest effort, with Carter now sober again and both he and Henderson recalibrating through therapy, has a confidence and maturity that comes with self-realisation. It’s also definitely not a hardcore album.”
If any further evidence were needed then listeners can dial into Man Of The Hour, a treatise on modern rock stardom, a song that questions whether such a thing exists when AI and a phone can make anyone famous. Fighting preconceptions (‘You want who you heard about/You want all the acting out’), it’s equally as bolder flag-planting-in-the-field-of-mainstream-rock as the pair have ever written, provocation dialled down and in tone beckoning in rather than shutting out the audience.