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Motel Love make you want to start listing the bands who defined power pop. The four-piece offer a nostalgic experience, but it’s not a stagnant homage. Tonight they set forth from the 1970s, bringing Big Star, The Scientists and Elvis Costello with them, cruised through the 1980s to pick up The Replacements, and made it back here from the 1990s, Teenage Fanclub and Guided By Voices in tow. Feeding on this well of influence, it’s no surprise that the majority of their tunes (sung by three different vocalists) were damn catchy. Some songs suffered from having too many chosen favourites chucked together at once, but even that wasn’t greatly off-putting; just slightly schizophrenic. What made Motel Love foremost a likeable band was their willingness to punch it all out, with no concern for gloss or fine-tuning. Augustus Webly/Beat Magazine Oct 2014