Midnite City/Nasty Ratz - Yardbirds Rock Club, Grimsby 22nd January 2026

Reviewed by Elaine Button • 26 January 2026

It was a very cold and windy with torrential rain Thursday night, but that didn’t stop the rock hardcore coming out on a school night! On what was a rescheduled UK tour for Midnite City, after front man Rob Wylde broke his ribs late last year, support was from Nasty Ratz who travelled from the Czech Republic for these dates. Nasty Rats opened up their set with a Bigtop Circus intro before the band kicking in with a heavy, but melodic “Welcome to the circus”. The band had good stage presence, and vocalist Jake Widow using his gloves with green laser beams to maximum effect at certain parts of songs. The venue seemed to gradually fill up during the set, with the crowd enjoying what they saw and heard – catchy choruses and great guitar solos , and participating in the song “Stay Lazy”.

The crowd were warmed up and ready for Midnite City.

Overall Nasty Ratz were well received on their first visit to Yardbirds, Grimsby, and I'm sure they will be back in the future.

Nasty Ratz are:

Vocals – Jake Widow

Guitar & Backing Vocals – Matt Viperi

Bass & Backing Vocals – Xriss String

Drums & Backing Vocals – Randy Dee

SETLIST

Intro – Circus

The Waste

Against the world

Poetic Justice

Angel in me

Watch your back

Demons

Price of love

Set you free

Lets drive

Stay lazy

Beat the bullet

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Midnite City are out to promote their recent album “Bite the bullet”, which was released in November. They had a new setlist covering songs from all five albums, and will be celebrating ten years together at the end of the year.

Opening up their set with “Live like ya mean it” soon got the fanbase singing every word along with Rob, who is still recovering from his freak accident. A great sound from the 80s style “Hair Metallists” was well received, with Ryan's thunderous drums and Tabbies bass, keeping the beat tight, with Shawn's keyboards giving a fuller sound for Miles to do his nifty guitar work.

During “Atomic” Rob had everyone raising their fists in the air at the beginning of the chorus, with one fan even coming all the way from Japan!

Later in the set Shawn played a great keyboard based track with the rest of the band, whilst Rob went off stage, re-emerging for “Seeing is believing” where the fanbase swayed along to the slow melody with their phone torches lighting up the floor.

Midnite City never fail to put on a great show, and you can catch them again over the summer when they go out on a co headline tour with Sisters Doll from Australia.

Midnite City are:

Rob Wylde – Vocals

Miles Meakin – Guitar

Josh “Tabbie” Williams – Bass & backing vocals

Shawn Charvette – Keyboards & backing vocals

Ryan Briggs - Drums

SETLIST

Live like ya mean it

Someday

Heaven in this hell

Lethal dose of love

Hardest heart to break