Born Snapped is a fortnightly live bands night at The Station in Whitley Bay helmed by music journalist Andrew Fenwick and photographer G who work for the likes of Dazed & Confused, Metro, The Independent, NME, Playlouder and The Stool Pigeon. Click here to contact us www.andrewfenwick.com www.g-photography.co.uk Thursday 11 October 2007 Night of Sevens Shin Jin Rui Uncle Monty Syris + DJs (8pm, £3) Shin Jin Rui On 'London Stinks' - an undeniable highlight of their Roadside Attraction EP - Shin Jin Rui pour a cask of molten scorn on our nation’s fusty capital, with a menacing missive that's as direct as it is unforgiving. Presumably, though, the Newcastle trio have a soft spot for Liverpool, with their proto-punk clearly indebted to the caustic twang of Teardrop Explodes and Echo and The Bunnymen. Of course, there's a gnarly angst to their music which the aforementioned often lacked, as first demonstrated on Use Your Youth, their split 7" with the now sadly defunct A Woman of No Importance, but in-your-face though they my be, Shin Jin Rui package their small-town dissatisfaction with enough originality, acumen and nonchalant cool to be one of the mainstays on the local music scene for a good while yet. Andrew Fenwick, Metro
