Ace Wilder – Do It

“Wowsers”.

Tim: The word that sprang to my mind when this first finished playing was “wowsers”. I’ll let you watch it before you comment on that.

Tom: Well, that starts as it means to go on, doesn’t it?

Tim: We’re told that, in the world of Ace Wilder, “the popguns are loaded and the world is constantly under fire from the demanding matrix of the choruses you always wanted to shout yourself blue to and the beats that will move your body in ways you didn’t know was possible”.

Tom: What.

Tim: Now that sounds like a load of pretentious bollocks to me, but the track’s bloody brilliant so I don’t really care.

Tom: Yep, I’ve got to agree with you there.

Tim: It is loud and brash and heavy and demanding and a bit rude, but more importantly that all those (or at least just as importantly) it has a cracking tune, a lovely duh-nuh-du-du-nuh-nu-nu-etc hook (though I wouldn’t mind it we lost the doo-run bit) —

Tom: That did remind me of the Crystals.

Tim: Figures. There’s also a nice uplifting message to it, as long as we’re talking metaphorically and assuming this isn’t a recruitment video for a new arsonist movement. Because if it is then I may have to rethink– actually, no, it’s still great. BRING ON THE TORCHES!

Tom: BRING ON THE WALL!

Tim: Erm, yes, why not. And if it’s a choice between that and Splash!, absolutely.