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Post by Random on May 10, 2014 9:09:24 GMT
BabyMetal are performing at Sonisphere this year which could be quite a shock for some of the people who attend.
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Post by Kirei on May 10, 2014 13:54:16 GMT
They're also doing a one off gig in London after sonisphere.
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Post by Kirei on May 16, 2014 9:06:27 GMT
Saw MC Lars featuring Bee Mic See and Malibu Shark Attack at the Soundhouse, Leicester last night. Thoroughly enjoyed it. MSA were fantastic and Lars was awesome as always. Got to hear 2 new songs off of his upcoming album, first night of the tour so he'd never played them live before, very cool also got a chance to chat with him before the gig and got some hugs he's an ace guy!
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Post by duoinchains on May 23, 2014 9:13:01 GMT
Neutral Milk Hotel - Camden Roundhouse 22/05/2014 I'd resigned myself to never hearing any NMH songs live. But, 15 years after Jeff Magnum dissolved the band and went into hermit mode, he had a change of heart and reformed the classic 'Aeroplane' line up for a tour, including some UK dates NMH are an aquired taste... Jeff can't really sing, the sound is decidely lo-fi, instrumentation often shambolic and chaotic and the lyrics weird as anything... yet it all works. It's a beautiful noise. The Roundhouse is packed - all 3 nights completely sold out. And NMH fans are nothing if not respectful - Jeff's requested no photos/videos be taken and the vast majority heed that request. There's very little crowd noise during and even between songs, other than cheering and good natured call outs for songs. Jeff is in fine 'voice' and we get pretty much the whole of their released material (2 album's-worth, plus a couple of extra tracks not officially recorded/released. Some songs are Jeff solo (Oh Comely, Two-headed Boy) while others start solo and gradually add band until the full noise is achieved. Among the instruments played were saws (3 of) accordion (2 of), bowed banjo, French horn, tuba, E Flat horn, trumpet, trombone as well as the usual gits/bass/drums. Not bad for a 5-piece! Jeff and the band seem to really enjoy themselves and it's awesome to finally hear this great music live.
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Post by MIBlackburn on Jun 7, 2014 21:22:27 GMT
Just seen the Animals (well, the remainder of it and no Burdon) are coming to Middlesbrough November - eh, that's alright.
... with special guest Steve Cropper - *runs off to book tickets*
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Post by duoinchains on Jun 17, 2014 10:26:33 GMT
Wovenhand - Bush Hall, London 16/6/14 Support from Desert Mountain Tribe - noisy US 3-piece with a line of hard psychadelic rawk. Not bad, but I can't see myself rushing out to buy. Wovenhand - 90 minutes of ear-batteringly brutal, doomy post-rock-tinged folk/country. Mostly off the last 2 albums. PA might have been cranked a tad high (must find those ear-plugs...) 'kin' wonderful noise though. No merch (or rather, waiting for merch to appear after the gig would have resulted in a much later home arrival, and as it was only CDs, I can get those on'tinterwebz)
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Post by duoinchains on Jul 10, 2014 18:30:54 GMT
Conor Oberst/Dawes - Camden Koko Wed 9 July 2014
Erstwhile Bright Eyes' frontman plugging his latest solo album of emofolk (Upside Down Mountain).
The Dawes provide both support (45 minutes of blandly, inoffensive 'merken MOR) and Conor's backing band for a solid 2 hour set of top emofolk, split roughly 2/3 solo materiel and 1/3 Bright Eyes tracks. The latter including the achingly beautiful No One Would Riot For Less*, and I'm stupidly happy at finally hearing it live. Okay, so Dawes aren't Bright Eyes musically, but it's still a decent rendition and anyways, Conor's singing is the core part of the sound.
*I was up behind the sound desk and could see the 20-song set-list... which had alternatives listed for 4 songs... the alt for No One was the equally beautiful Poison Oak. So, assuming they won't repeat exactly the same set, I'm rather tempted to get a ticket for the other Koko night in a week or so.
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Post by duoinchains on Aug 15, 2014 23:54:14 GMT
Neutral Milk Hotel - HMV Forum, Kentish Taaahhhn - 15/8/14
NMH were supposed to play Jabberwoky Festival at ExCeL, but when that got cancelled earlier in the week, they hurredly booked the Forum for a rather more intimate gig.
So another chance to see Jeff and Co was not to be denied. Support from The Ex (a Dutch MOR outfit) and NMH doing more-or-less the same set as I saw at the Roundhouse a few months ago - still shambolic, still rather chaotic but my word, what a glorious and joyful sing-along it turned out to be.
And given it was only announced at midday Wednesday, it was rammed - every ticket sold in the space of 55-ish hours. Not bad for a relatively unknown (here anyways) US Indie band.
Top evening!
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Post by duoinchains on Oct 21, 2014 14:08:44 GMT
Wayne Hussey - Highbury Garage, Wed 8 Oct 2014
Frontman of top 80s Goffiks The Mission and chief wearer of The Big Girls Blouse, this is the London leg of his low-key solo/acoustic(ish) tour of intimate toilets.
And, despite a heavy cold, he entertains us for a solid 2 hours, mixing classic Mish songs and assorted covers, alternating swigs of Black Tower and lemsip and playing a selection of guitars ('leccy and acoustic), keyboards, a uke and sometimes just his voice. Some songs used a backing track, others not. Using an iPad as his songbook, about a third of the set was selected by audience requests, so we got some real old Mish gems (Fabienne on uke, top notch!).
The Garage crowd is (for once) respectfully silent, except when invited to join in for a more raucous sing-a-long to some of the Mish classics.
A very civilised and rather delightful evening.
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Post by duoinchains on Oct 22, 2014 12:34:30 GMT
Welcome to Night Vale - Union Chapel London, 21 Oct 2014 YAY!! A Night Vale live European tour (4 nights sold out in London!) of the cult US podcast. Cecil and co deliver a 90 minute special show entitled 'The Librarian', chock full of NV goodness - combining surrealism, general weirdness and even a slice of existentialism. Familiar characters, strange happenings and lots of suspense - brilliant evening! Plenty of cosplayers too - lots of Carlos the Scientist, a few Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your House and, best of all, a superb glowing Glow Cloud who was rightly hailed by all whenever she appeared. ALL HAIL.
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Post by Kirei on Nov 13, 2014 6:57:01 GMT
Oh my stars! I forgot to tell you guys about Machinae Supremacy at The Crewe in Nuneaton! So, this time last month I took my other half and my housemate to their first ever metal gig! We saw Machinae Supremacy (progenitors of Sid Metal) and their support Neonfly. Neonfly were very classic. Sort of a mix of iron maiden and Metallica. MaSu were FANTASTIC! All 3 of us thoroughly enjoyed the show and are planned by on going back to The Crewe in future.
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Post by duoinchains on Nov 13, 2014 14:25:47 GMT
Erasure - Reading hexagon Wed 12 Nov 2014 Last saw them live at Milton Keynes Bowl in 1988 (my lil' sister needed a chaperone to her first big gig) Set comprised pretty much all the hits/faves and about half the new album. Still bouncy, camp, fun pop of the best kind. Could perhaps have done without Andy Bell cavorting around the stage in a pair of sparkly hotpants, though...
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Post by duoinchains on Nov 24, 2014 15:51:11 GMT
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - Brixton Academy 22/11/14
Billed as 'The Last Tango in Brixton' and 'The Final Comedown', JimBob and Fruitbat had very publically stated this would be the Last Ever Carter USM live show. But that they were planning to blow the Academy's bar take record and see themselves out with style.
And so it proved. 5000 Carter fans squeezed themselves into Brixton Academy one last time and went totally and utterly 'kin' MENTAL!
Carter: 2 blokes with a guitar each, a drum machine and a big wall of spotlights. They gave us a true 'best of' - not necessarily the hits, but all those classic and much loved b-sides, the covers and album tracks with 5000 people singing/bellowing/bouncing along to every single word of every one of the 26 songs played... even the instrumental. Crowd surfers galore (security were warned and were cool with it, given the occasion). 2 hours of absolute perfection.
And then that was it.
Done.
No More Carter.
Left with just a ringing in the ears, no voice and rather sore toes.
A Final Comedown indeed, quite a few tears being shed as we collectively realised that we'd been a part of something rather special, yet rather sad.
Loved this band back in the 90s, loved them when they reformed for that 'one off' gig in 2007, loved them for all the further gigs since then, loved them on Saturday night. Never saw them give a duff performance.
G'night Fruitbat. G'night JimBob.
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Post by duoinchains on Dec 11, 2014 7:47:06 GMT
Barnstormer's 20th Birthday Bash - London Borderline 10/12/14 Atilla's 'renaissence-core' band Barnstormer have been going for 20 years (indeed, Shelley was at their first ever gig in Oxford on 5/11/94, back when they were called Flounder and featured Captain Sensible on bass!), so Atilla called up some mates, booked the Borderline and had a birthday gig. Thee Faction opened - very 'right-on' Left-ist R&B TV Smith - frontman of The Adverts and the Newtown Neurotics gave us a short acoustic set (including Gary Gilmore's Eyes) Blyth Power - 45 minute set of Blyth track old and new (Going Down with Alice works *very* well live ) lots of bouncing around John Otway - played his hit. Played his Xmas song. Joined by Atilla for some hilarity (the 'Glue medley' and the German translation of You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (Du hast noch gar nichts gesehen). Barnstormer - playing tracks mostly from their first 2 albums. Best part of the evening - seeing and catching up with loads of the old Blyth following who I've not seen for a decade or more. It was like turning the clock back 20 years when they and us were regulars at the Camden Monarch. Waaaay too much fun
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Post by duoinchains on Dec 15, 2014 12:12:38 GMT
New Model Army #131 - Kentish Tahn & Country Club The annual gathering of the Family. No support, just 2 sets from the Army totalling 3 hours ( 31 songs) a good mix of long-unheard tracks (1984... Waiting... wow, not heard those live for about 25 years, Ballad), the classic faves (Poison Street, Wonderful Way to Go, Purity, 225, Green & Gray) and newer tracks (Red Earth, One of the Chosen, Between Dog & Wolf) and Angry Planet really, really works live. Sound was near perfect, the Forum was full, but not crushrammed, so there was space to boogie. 2nd set included a string duo (violin/cello), Mark Feltham on harmonica and Ed Alleyne-Johnson on 5-string electric violin, plus a funkton of drums - Vagabonds was just epic with six drummers. (This is the following night in Nottingham, but London was as good!) Not far off the perfect (and best) Army gig in the 34 years I've been following.
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