duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Feb 22, 2015 10:11:32 GMT
The Decemberists - Brixton Academy 21/2/15 Touring their new album, so the setlist is split 7 new/13 old. New stuff works well live, old stuff we all know and sing along heartily. Multiple drummers (5, to be exact) for The Rakes Song. And the biggest cheer for the night goes to (of course) The Mariner's Revenge Song Perhaps not quite as good as the Hammy Odeon (smaller, more intimate venue) gig in 2011, but still hugely enjoyable.
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duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Mar 16, 2015 7:42:05 GMT
Blyth Power - Bedford Esquires 14/03/15
Support from Jesus Hooligan (tribal drumming... I stayed in the bar) and Fishwife's Broadside (jolly folkyrock) before a top-notch set from Blyth with a couple (four, in fact) of Pastor Skull tracks (including the other one about the 'orse) and classics like Hard Summer Long/He Who Would Valiant Be as well as newer songs (...Alice gets better and better each time I hear it).
A solid, hour-long performance, danced my arse off and had a cracking good time.
New Model Army (#132) Sub89 Reading 15/03/15
She Makes War supporting - lass on vox/git and a violinist. Pretty damn good (and playing a free gig at the Turtle on Tuesday evening)
Army on great form, the usual mix of old and new tracks, one big moshing sing-along.
My knees are complaining about having to bounce for 2 nights running...
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duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Mar 25, 2015 12:45:35 GMT
PLACEBO - 'ammy O 24/3/15 Support from The Mirror Trap, alt-indie-rock 6-piece from Dundee. A pretty interesting, quite 90s-style noise from them, will check them out further. Placebo themselves were loud. Properly, hearing-f**ked LOUD. Augmented to a 6-piece, pretty decent setlist and firing on all cylinders for a near-faultless performance to a capacity crowd. That last 4-song section of the main set absolutely nailed it for me with 4 of my fave Placebo songs back to back.
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duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Jun 4, 2015 17:11:47 GMT
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duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Jun 5, 2015 8:13:52 GMT
I think we have at least one other Night Vale fan here, yes?? There's another NV live UK tour in September, tickets on sale tomorrow morning! I'll be trying for one of the Union Chapel (London) dates. Well... that was easy. Straight on the Union Chapel site, ticket booked by 09:02.
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duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Jun 24, 2015 7:11:39 GMT
Wovenhand / Russian Circles - Scala 23/6/15
Epic 65 min set from Wovenhand, mostly tracks from the last album Refractory Obdurate; full of fire, brimstone and thunder. DEE performing shaman-like, his lyrics referencing chunks of the Old Testament. Technically, Wovenhand are Christian rock, but very much at odds with the usual tedious optimism and the 'message before the music' schtick of that genre. Wovenhand are spiritual, but in an brutal, unflinching way. And it's a beautiful, awesome noise.
Russian Circles have tech issues throughout their set, which is a pity as when they do get going, it's full-on instrumental post-rock from the heavy end of the spectrum. But the stop-start nature with lengthy pauses while faulty kit gets dealt with mean it doesn't work tonight.
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duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Jul 24, 2015 9:21:30 GMT
Les grandes blouses de filles (Islington o2 Thurs 23/7/15) Only found out about this a week or so back - goth stalwarts The Mission doing a short warm-up tour as 'Blood Brothers' (a noted Mish track) before the summer festivals, this being the second of 2 London dates. 2 sets - they opened as 'The Mission' with a set drawn predominantly from the most recent albums, with just 2 older tracks and then returned after a 20 minute pee/b33r break, intro'ed as tradition dictates by the Dambusters theme, as 'Blood Brothers'* for a 100-minute set of old Mish fave classics. Cue much waving of arms, throwing of confetti and shredded paper, human pyramids and a good hearty sing-along-a-goth. A hugely fun evening - almost the original Mish line-up in great form, Hussey swigging from a bottle of vino collapso, eyeliner everywhere, the waft of patchouli. Realised on the way home that I'd seen the Mish in almost the same location back in October 1993 when they played the even smaller Powerhaus... that night went on somewhat longer and me and the 2 friends I was with ended up walking back to the office and dossing under the desks! At least last night I eventually made it home (courtesy of blagging on the down midnight ) * there is a 'merkin screamo band called The Blood Brothers. Apparently on Weds night, a fan of said band turned up at the first london gig and became rather disgruntled that he'd booked to see the wrong band, posting drunken rants on the Mish facebook page and generally getting withered by everyone
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PurpleTreeFrog
Neko
Posts: 54
Favorite Anime: One Piece, Black Lagoon, Berserk
Favorite Manga: One Piece
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Post by PurpleTreeFrog on Aug 14, 2015 23:13:31 GMT
Nothing More have just announced they're playing in the UK in December. Have requested a few days off around then so myself and the OH can head up to London to see them. Much Excite! :-D
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duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Sept 7, 2015 21:50:11 GMT
The Goblin Ball - Westgate Academy, Lincoln Sun 30 Aug. 10/12 2 artists: Lady Violet Hugh - steampunk music hall-esque jollity, with innuendo-laden ditties such as 'Let's go dogging on the downs', 'Lovely Baps' and 'Tea Bagging' followed by The Filthy Spectacula - new band on the steampunk circuit, though lead singist Gary Emmins fronted Ghostfire a few years back. TFS play lively gypsy/sea-shanty/cossack stuff which gets the floor filled with bouncing nutters. 'Drinkski Song' saw Shel, myself, Mark G and 2 members of The Men (That Will Not...etc) arms-linked and cossack dancing... I'm getting far too old for that sort of thing...
And the Goblin Ball was our (Shel and I) initiation into running a steampunk thing - we were stewarding at The Asylum (longest running and largest steampunk event in the world) and the organising team asked us to manage the gig - sorting stage, lights, bands, etc. And it proved a rather a sucessful night, so we might be doing more of the same next year!
The Dead Dog Party - Assembly Rooms, Lincoln Mon 31 Aug 11/12 The Cogneys (faux-cockerneeeee music hall - friends of ours with a line in dreadful puns, smutty innuendo and some great parody songs) opened for Professor Elemental (chap-rap) and the chance for the Asylum crew to kick back and party!
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duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Nov 9, 2015 14:47:26 GMT
Garbage - Paris Le Zénith Sat 7 Nov 2015Support from Dutch Uncles (Marple-based 6-piece, albeit playing as a 5-piece tonight) - eclectic 80's sound, very Depeche Mode/Erasure/Yazoo sounding. Frontman's 'dancing' clearly inspired by mid-1980s TOTP audiences. And then Garbage. Wee Shirley Manson and her cohorts (including Butch Vig, who produced Nirvana's classic Nevermind album) with a '20 Years Queer' retrospective set of all their tracks from the debut single 'Queer' and their first album, so 1995-1996(ish). 2 solid hours of great music. Shirley Manson still has a fantastic voice. We first saw Garbage back in Jan 1999 at the Rivermead, courtesy of winning a competition in Metro which also landed us with a whole bunch of signed albums and singles! Le Zénith is a great venue - spacious, well laid out and good sound quality. Saturday gigs easy to cover from London via Eurostar, we'll be keeping an eye out on their listings. Annoyingly, Apocalyptica played there on Friday, while we were en route.
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