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The Small Fakers & Who's Next The Engine Rooms, Southampton. 18 January 2020 It may have been a very cold Southampton evening but it was hot at the Engine Rooms. This was an excellent double-header with the superb Small Fakers kicking off the evening with a career-spanning set that included almost all the singles, quite a few b-sides and several album tracks. It was good to hear tracks that are not played so often such as Sorry She's Mine, Don't Burst My Bubble (a personal favourite and a Gift to Weller!), Shake and You Better Believe It. The Small Fakers have been going 12 years but seem to get better all the time. In fact, they have been playing more than twice as long as the Small Faces! Matt Bond has the Marriott moves, mannerisms and, often, the voice. The songs are played faithfully and probably with better audio quality than the Small Faces ever had, not just because of better equipment and PA but also the lack of screaming teenage girls! The sound and look are helped by using appropriate equipment. Neil has a semi-acoustic base. Matt uses a large semi-acoustic as well as a sunburst Fender Telecaster similar to that used by Steve Marriott (see Colour Me Pop). Who's Next are well-worth seeing. They focus more on the rockier sound of the Who with most of the tracks taken from Tommy, Who's Next and Quadrophenia alongside a few 1960s singles, Who Are You and Long Live Rock from Odds & Sods. They sounded great with plenty of windmilling, power chords, crazy bass lines and powerhouse drumming. The lead singer gets quite close to Daltrey's vocals, at least once his mix had been turned up after the first song! Both the Small Fakers and Who's Next bring the sounds of the Small Faces and the Who to the present day and are a great evening out.
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