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Recent Gigs
Dec. 1st, 2005 04:52 pmSo in the last week I've been gigging frantically. (Well twice actually, but anyway).
Yesterday was Opeth, and Friday before last I went to see Novembre (supporting My Dying Bride).
Opeth are darn good live. I'd not realised they had such a large (and quite varied) back catalogue. I only recognised about three tracks (mostly from the new album, which is very good.) Rather too much stage banter, but given the length of the songs I'm not suprised the drummer needed a rest after each one.
The support acts were pretty good. Burst were nothing special, think a Swedish version of every loud American Nu-metal band of recent years without the hip-hop influence. In other words "Move along, nothing to see here". Good at what they do, just not interesting enough.
I can't believe I've been into metal since I was 17 and lived in Central London since I was 18 and yesterday was the first time I'd seen Akercocke. How the hell have I managed to avoid them? Anyway they're very good. The new prog direction is certainly intersting. Fluff compared the new stuff to Pharmacon, a black metal band who really want to play acid jazz. Usually halfway through a song. Still Its interesting, and they've reworked some of their older material in this new style.
Opeth, as mentioned were bloody good. The audience downstairs absolutely loved it. As for the audience upstairs (only place I could get a ticket for at such short notice), well I've seen more animated fossils.
Two weeks ago, as mentioned was MDB. I've seen them before, and Aaron's straightjacket was certainly cleaner. It was white. It's now tie-dyed with "Kensington Gore". Looks pretty funky actually. But the real reason I went to see it was to finally get to see Novembre. Not (as some people have accused them) an Opeth rip-off. They were absolutely fantastic. They got a decent length set (about 45 minutes), and comletely blew me away. It was all a bit emotional for the three of us (Fluff, Richard & myself). A gig we've been waiting for for quite some time.
MDB themselves were good, but the set really didn't come to life for me until the last 1/2 hour or so. I'm sure it was all planned from the start, but there wasn't enough early on to really get me into the set.
Although why the touts were flogging "HIM" T-shirts I really don't understand. Its not as if they're ever likely to be on the same billing as MDB (or even Novembre) for that matter, outside of Wacken.
Yesterday was Opeth, and Friday before last I went to see Novembre (supporting My Dying Bride).
Opeth are darn good live. I'd not realised they had such a large (and quite varied) back catalogue. I only recognised about three tracks (mostly from the new album, which is very good.) Rather too much stage banter, but given the length of the songs I'm not suprised the drummer needed a rest after each one.
The support acts were pretty good. Burst were nothing special, think a Swedish version of every loud American Nu-metal band of recent years without the hip-hop influence. In other words "Move along, nothing to see here". Good at what they do, just not interesting enough.
I can't believe I've been into metal since I was 17 and lived in Central London since I was 18 and yesterday was the first time I'd seen Akercocke. How the hell have I managed to avoid them? Anyway they're very good. The new prog direction is certainly intersting. Fluff compared the new stuff to Pharmacon, a black metal band who really want to play acid jazz. Usually halfway through a song. Still Its interesting, and they've reworked some of their older material in this new style.
Opeth, as mentioned were bloody good. The audience downstairs absolutely loved it. As for the audience upstairs (only place I could get a ticket for at such short notice), well I've seen more animated fossils.
Two weeks ago, as mentioned was MDB. I've seen them before, and Aaron's straightjacket was certainly cleaner. It was white. It's now tie-dyed with "Kensington Gore". Looks pretty funky actually. But the real reason I went to see it was to finally get to see Novembre. Not (as some people have accused them) an Opeth rip-off. They were absolutely fantastic. They got a decent length set (about 45 minutes), and comletely blew me away. It was all a bit emotional for the three of us (Fluff, Richard & myself). A gig we've been waiting for for quite some time.
MDB themselves were good, but the set really didn't come to life for me until the last 1/2 hour or so. I'm sure it was all planned from the start, but there wasn't enough early on to really get me into the set.
Although why the touts were flogging "HIM" T-shirts I really don't understand. Its not as if they're ever likely to be on the same billing as MDB (or even Novembre) for that matter, outside of Wacken.
