VOWELS have, at some point, fallen out of favour and here we have Saint Phnx at TRNSMT.
Pronounced Phoenix, for those scratching their heads at the back, the Wishaw brothers are on the King Tuts stage playing to a home crowd in more ways than one.
They tell us their “wee mum” Fay is in the audience, proudly watching her boys, when they launch into standout single Happy Place, a tribute to their late dad.
Alan and Stevie Dukes are on flawless form and deserve a far bigger crowd than the slightly patchy gathering that turns out to greet them.
At the start of the set they do a “scream test” – urging the audience to make some noise – and, to their credit, Saint Phnx manage to get the people going.
Despite being on stage relatively early in the day, they perform like headliners, strutting across the stage in their leather jackets like they own it.
Against the backdrop of a lightshow that burns your retinas if you look directly at it, Stevie swings his mic stand and belts out their songs.
Clearly having an absolute ball, we have a singer getting on the drums, a drummer going batty with a tambourine and a couple of dives down into the crowd.
During the upbeat swing of the lyrics “thank you for teaching me all that you know” it howls with rain yet no one notices.
A water gun is cracked out – as if folk weren’t soaked enough – and a mosh pit kicks off.
It’s a more impressive mosh pit than others further up the bill have managed and well done to them.
Their mum can be rightly proud.
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