Reformed in early 2007 Crippling Jack have delighted many North East audiences, recently giving one of their best performances yet headlining the local "Love Music Hate Racism" event at the Customs House South Shields, and stunning the audience in The Head of Steam, Newcastle. Playing together for the best part of a decade they have innovated, excited and moved with their own blend of gritty rock riffs and soaring melodies. Add to the mix dedicated professionalism and an absolute joy for music, Crippling Jack is an exciting antidote to the photocopiable, skinny-jeaned poster boys mass-produced in middle class garages throughout England. No coiffured, tatty hair or lumbering, stabbing guitar meanderings for these lads. Just pure, unadulterated rock ecstasy.