The Quireboys, Burning Tree: Royal Court, Liverpool
Penny Kiley, Melody Maker, 5 May 1990
ON STAGE, support band Burning Tree are exhibiting the mellow, melancholy side of heavy rock and hints of the pop-rock crossover potential that the Quireboys have perfected. In the Ladies, a group of girls old enough to be his daughters are singing a Rod Stewart medley. There's something of what the Quireboys do in both, but to look at the Quireboys in the same way would be to miss the point.
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