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uncle retrospective

13:45 / 09.04.06

I've been meaning to start this thread for a long, long time and now I will. Like what are you listening to, this is a thread for ranting about gigs you've been to and telling your brother/sister 'Lither what's going down. As the young people used to say.

So, to start. I went to see Whitehouse last night. Humm.... I'd never heard any of their music but went along because I know some of the people here love them and if you don't check out new stuff life is going to get boring.
Saying all that it was the first gig I walked out of.
Now this isn't all the bands fault, in fact I blame the support acts. One of the bands were the Low Tech Apostles. 3 po faced bastards who played a 40 minute set of droning with one of them bellowing through a microphone stuck in his mouth. At ear shredding volume. I was getting a little pissed off at what was, well, shite, but lo they fucked of to the scowls for the crowd. Then on came Whitehouse. Or they didn't. Some guys played an hour of the hardest techno I've ever heard, slowing down to drop in an Atari Teenage Riot sample was one thing but when they broke 250bpm I started to lose the will to live.
Finally Whitehouse take the stage. I last 2 songs. I'm sorry if I sound like a wuss but the smugness of 2 guys playing white noise, actually, that's not fair, it had far more of a tune that I expected, but all I could make out of the lyrics is that they liked to shout fuck. A lot.
So with the end of my tether nowhere in sight, I had to walk out of the pub, being sneered at by people with beards. I recon I could have made it through the gig if the supports weren't so shit, It could have been like the Coil gig, like being smacked in the face at the start but amazing by the end, but no I had leg it.

Not the best spending of €16. Oh well, I'm going to see Bolt Thrower tonight, it should be more my thing.

Wow, that was more a rant than review.

Danzig: He Pitys the Fool!

11:04 / 10.04.06

I went to see Henry Rollins do a spoken word show a couple of weeks ago. I've seen Henry before, and he's always been highly strung and generally angry individual, but good god!!! He's just turned into the biggest ball of rage you're ever likely to witness. He's kind of how i'd imagine the cartoon character Tazz to be if he was real, only permanently in a whirlwind/cyclone thing. He's definitely going to have some issues with veins bursting in later life.

Nevertheless, he doesn't stop being entertaining. And for all his George W Bush fascination, he does have some cool stories about.... well... being Henry Rollins. Not in a gloating way you understand. Just that he is privileged enough to do these things and he wants to share them with as many people as will listen kind of way. On the whole, thoroughly enjoyable if not a tad long.

Off to see Danko Jones next tuesday, so something else to look forward too.

lonely as a cloud...

13:10 / 10.04.06

I saw Hank a coupla weeks ago, too. He stood there ranting for nearly three hours, pausing only once for a sip of water. He was really great. Who else, upon finding a 10-day block of free time in his schedule, would decide to ride the Trans-Siberian Express, bringing no sustenance but dried pear slices and goat-flavoured protein bars?

14:03 / 10.04.06

Just saw the Deftones last night on the Taste of Chaos tour. If you think it's hard understanding Chino Moreno on the CD, wait til you hear him live. I couldn't even tell what songs they were playing. In the first six songs, I could only discern "My Own Summer (Shove It)". He has an amazing scream, something that other bands on the tour did not necessarily lack.

The Taste of Chaos tour also has Atreyu, Thrice, Thursday, As I Lay Dying, Dredg, Adair, Street Drum Corps, and other bands. The highlight of the night was definitely Atreyu. They put on a really mean and fun show.

The other highlight of the night was meeting Jared Leto! He was in town playing a show the night before and he was just wandering the halls of the venue. We said "hi" and he said "hi" and he walked away.

uncle retrospective

10:19 / 01.05.06

Well I've just had an amazing weekend of music. Saturday I went to see Vitalic, I love the album, it's the first dance album in years to just blow the socks off me so my hopes were very high. He really didn't disappoint. Sweet Jesus it was amazing I haven't ever see a crowd react like the way they did at a dance gig, the place went nuts, crowd surfing, stage diving and the front half of the venue was just bouncing up and down throwing shapes. Orbital were the last act I've seen that were that good, and I can't give higher praise.

Sunday I went to see the Cult of Luna. I never listened to the albums much, it gets a bit much but when a band like that plays I'll show up and boy was it a good call. I haven't got the new album, so I didn't know how much they have changed, they've dialled the hardcore back a bit and swung over more to post metal. The band I saw sounded like Explosions in the Sky if they went to sleep with Godflesh's Street cleaner every night. Lots and lots of swirling guitar, ten minute songs and really loud metal. Magic stuff and a great way of beating the next day clubbing blues.
Kick ass weekend!