Bands I've seen.

[Salem6]

Therapy? - Garage, Highbury 19/10/09

The venue has had a lick o' paint since I woz last here, still minute tho.
The support band were just trying 2 b az loud az possible & were quite rubbish.
Found a gr8 spot behind teh mixing desk leaning on leather pads. Woz waiting 4 Andy & the boyz 2 start when Andy cumz on & introduces this geezer wiv an acoustic guitar, I thought he'd never fucking stop

GO AWAY!!!

Seemed an eternity b4 he actually stopped his awful whining & left the stage. tick tick tick where are they???
@ last Therapy? arrive & yes it woz worth waiting 4 even if teethgrinder didn't seem az aggresive az it used 2, but that mite b bcoz I ain't Gr8 set including Isolation & finishing wiv Going nowhere which woz a gr8 way 2 finish. A gr8 look back in anger, the 1st of 3 gigs this week & the best 4 me.

[Salem6]

Rubbish. Nuff sed.
Never seen so many saddos & non-entities in 1 place.
3 1/2 decent trax & that's it.

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[Salem6]

WOW! !
Brilliant show.
The big pink were a bit disappointing az it seemed like tape loop srather than live performance, but the trax r good & woz an adequate warm-up 4 Muse. They did take ages 2 cum on tho grrrrrrrr

Muse, well where do I start? The stage had wot looked like 3 skyscrapers on it. Then the lighting got sorted & the 3 members of the band were in the middle of each tower, about 12 feet above the stage. Brilliant idea which looked really good. Uprising az the 1st track = FUCKING HELL! wot a start & the crowd were off already.
A couple of trax in & the band eventually came down to earth & started playing on the stage. Matt had a little mini-bridge fing he kept teasing the moshers. This band really know how 2 play live & just kept up the sonic onslaught thru a lot of trax off resistance, plug in baby, time is running out & just loads of fantastic stuff. There woz a point when ppl were blowing up condoms & bouncing them around, weird, then during 1 track there woz a release of prisoner like balloon & all made sense lol.
2nd/3rd best gig of the year & well pleezed I went.
Not slept much & looking 4wd 2 the w/e 4 a rest lol.

Woz a gr8 laser show az well, I'll find sum pix when they appear.

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[Salem6]

Good gig by the young whipper snappers, review 2 follow if I can b bovd.

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Brixton Academy 01/12/09


Gr8 nite!
The support band (Duchess says) were different, the singer woz a cross between Alice Glass & Bjork - totally off her conkers. During a couple of the trax she woz walking & dancing right thru the crowd mixing, pushing & generally getting involved. Good start

Then a black curtain covered the front of the stage & it seemed like hrs b4 the muzik actually started. When it did, It didn't let up apart from 1 slowish trak-q bar- Heads will roll & 1/2 uva trax off the 3rd album & the rest woz old stuff I didn't know, but really liked, so may update collection. Karen started wearing a massive flowing floral square & big head dress, then she changed in2 a weird almost 1-piece swimsuit complete with rubber ring LOL woz well weird, then THE leather jacket got an outing & Susan's lips were licking, she wants THAT jacket but hazn't got the £1000 or so fank fuk.
Karen finished with Zero & every1 woz standing - @ Brixton - shock horror lol.
Good gig & the 1st of 4 this week.
Must get an early nite sumtime b4 easter lol

Oh yeah & there woz giant eyeballls haha





More pix when I can get em

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[Salem6]

Great gig, great venue, great nite.
Shattered, review 2 follow.

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A late gig till 2am.
Surprisingly, the monkey man sang in tune 4 most of the time on stage. He had a bit of a strop during 1 track while I woz @ the bar & started it again, but apart from that an excellent performance.
2 Roses trax (Elizabeth my dear & Fool's gold) & most of his singles, tho he didn't do dolphins grrrrrrrrrrr, nemind.
Home @ 4am, sodding night buses, won't do that again in a hurry.


'Love Like A Fountain'
'Golden Gaze'
'Time Is My Everything'
'All Ablaze'
'Longsight M13'
'Keep What Ya Got'
'Save Us'
'Crowning Of The Poor'
'Corpses'
'Laugh Now'
'Vanity Kills'
'Own Brain'
'Marathon Man'
'Sister Rose'
'F.E.A.R'
'Elizabeth My Dear'/'Fools Gold'
'Stellify'
'Just Like You'

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[Salem6]

Same old really from the old un, died 3 times (Guillotine, hung & spike cabinet fing).
Played school's out twice, but no elected, nemind.




















1.School's Out 3:17 Min.
2.Department Of Youth 2:52 Min.
3.I'm Eighteen 4:08 Min.
4.Wicked Young Man 3:27 Min.
5.Ballad Of Dwight Fry 3:10 Min.
6.Go To Hell 3:40 Min.
7.Guilty 3:14 Min.
8.Welcome To My Nightmare 3:10 Min.
9.Cold Ethyl 2:45 Min.
10.Poison 5:01 Min.
11.The Awakening 1:50 Min.
12.From The Inside 4:28 Min.
13.Nurse Rosetta 2:13 Min.
14.Is It My Body 3:04 Min.
15.Be My Lover 3:00 Min.
16.Only Women Bleed - I Never Cry 5:39 Min.
17.Black Widow 5:11 Min.
18.Vengeance Is Mine 4:48 Min.
19.Devil's Food 2:50 Min.
20.Dirty Diamonds 3:27 Min.
21.Billion Dollar Babies 3:27 Min.
22.Killer 2:09 Min.
23.I Love The Dead 1:49 Min.
24.No More Mr. Nice Guy 2:53 Min.
25.Under My Wheels 3:56 Min.
26.School's Out 6:24 Min.

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[Salem6]

Bit disappointing really.
Didn't play Nancy boy, teenage angst, pure morning or a friend in need.
The 1st band silversun pickups were good
2nd band were aptly named the horrors - FUCK OFF.

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Wot a diva!
Kept us waiting till nearly 9.30 filling the whole place up with smoke (so we couldn't see his ugly boat), then he comes on & starts throwing his mikestand all over the place (being followed around by a guy picking fings up & generally repairing his strops & carrying a towel 4 MM 2 mop his poor little brow), spitting beer on the audience & generally acting like he was sum superstar - TWAT!
Muzik woz good tho, even tho he didn't play much of his older stuff. It must be me, coz I seem 2 spend most gigs l8ly waiting 4 my fave trax that don't appear, must start taking fings az it cumz.
The support band were good, EsOterica, a bit like korn on acid lol. He woz barefoot, very energetic wiv a skinny bird on bass (worth anuva look) & they cum from Croydon, mite search 4 sum of their stuff.

Good nite & didn't really feel like standing up @ Brixton ;-)

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[Salem6]

Depeche Mode - o2 15/12/09


Disappointing would b an under statement.
Flat & pretty boring really from the Essex boyz.
Gore even dun a coupla solo slots *YAWN*
Walking in my shoes woz good tho.
The seat # woz kool az well
The support band sounded like Leonard Cohen on valium lol

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Spiritualized - Barbican Hall 16/12/09

Didn't really know wot 2 expect az it's been a while since I saw them RAH bar prices 2 start wiv, just az well I wozn't in the mood 4 drinking (wot & I woz awake lol).
Kool auditorium & acoustics 4 wot woz gunner prove 2 b a very different & special performance.

32 ppl on stage !
8 pc string section
6 Brass
11 choir
4 guitars
2 drums
1 keyboard

From start 2 finish u couldn't ignore it, the whole "ladies & gentlemen we are floating in space" album woz played.
Highlights were Come together & Electricity which seared like never b4.
An encore of 2 songs, the 1st of which I didn't recoognise & finishing with............................................ SILENT NIGHT hahaha

only Spiritualized could get away wiv that 2 end a December show.
Nice 1 Jason, gr8 gig & a gr8 way 2 end this year of constant gigging 4 me, feet up till Feb now

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Fucking hell, where do I start?
Fantastic show, most of the 1st 1/2 woz the new album which I must confess I haven't listened 2 much. But all the trax were performed like a heard of stomping elephants.
Pyrotechnix were awesome & HOT!!! A foam cannon, exploding dummies, full-body burns & a guy wading over the crowd & back in a dinghy hahaha FANFUCKINGTASTIC

Here's a review whilst I get on wiv work & life LOL.

Shock and awe rules ok for Rammstein
By David Smyth, Evening Standard 05.02.10

After six albums, German pyromaniacs Rammstein can still shock. Their latest release, Liebe ist für alle da, can only be sold under the counter to over-18s in their home country.

The German authorities objected to the sleeve, on which the sextet seemed primed to dissect a nude woman, and particularly the violent lyrics of the song Ich tu dir Weh (I Want to Hurt You). And that’s without considering the special edition, a box set containing six pink sex toys purportedly modelled on the band’s own members.

An evening spent with them in concert, however, should dispel any perceived threat to society’s moral fabric. At their first London show in five years they were hilarious — camp cartoon characters as vicious as Tom and Jerry.

It probably helped that non-German speakers missed out on barrel-chested frontman Till Lindemann’s lyrics. Instead his guttural roars spread a general sense of doom without specifics.
Low, juddering guitars amplified the ear-bashing but the sound was lifted on tracks such as Du hast by Flake Lorenz’s synthesised atmospherics.

Even if you find the industrial metal sound as appealing as a Black & Decker sander to the earlobe, the astounding spectacle showed why Rammstein are huge across Europe. We were never more than five minutes from a fireball, some of them so large that I’m sure my eyelashes are shorter today. Baby dolls fired green lasers into the audience before exploding one by one.

Lindemann shot jets of flame from a contraption attached to his mouth while still singing, then set fire to a fake stage invader during Benzin.

At the climax of Pussy he sat astride a giant pink cannon and ejaculated foam into the front rows, at which point it was no longer possible to find him scary. It was good dirty fun all the way.







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Beez: Rammstein And The Greatest Show On Earth
terrybezer / News / 05/02/2010 16:03pm
Beez recaps one of the most elaborate stage shows to ever grace metal. (Contains spoilers). Get your Sonisphere tickets here!

My friends call me Beez. I’m a 26 year-old male who loves rum, action films where lots of shit gets blown up, massive boobs, boxing and brutal horror movies. Bearing this in mind, the question that runs through my head in the wake of Rammstein’s mind-blowing Wembley Arena show was: why was I stood applauding and whooping at the top of my lungs at the sight of a German built like a brick shithouse riding a 10-foot penis that’s spraying faux spunk into a crowd of rowdy metalheads?

The answer is simple – because it’s easy as pie to get carried away when faced with the greatest spectacle in the live environment today. Don’t get me wrong, there are better live acts out there, but in terms of visual excellence, no band on the planet gets within a billion miles of these German mentalists.

From the first seconds, this was a jaw-dropping demonstration in showmanship of the very highest quality. Opening the show by smashing through a wall, Till Lindermann then blasts through ‘Rammlied’ with lightning appearing inside his mouth. It’s as unsettling as it is impressive and that’s the tone that runs throughout the evening.

Over the course of 90 pulsating minutes, there’s more fire than a dragon can manage after Bombay’s finest curry, a ‘stage-invader’ being set on fire, explosions aplenty, the incredible sight of Till battering keyboardist Christian Lorenz in a bath before showering him with some of the maddest pyro you’ll ever see and Lindermann’s flame-throwing angel wings at the show’s finale is truly breath-taking.

It’s almost a minor detail at a Rammstein show but it has to be noted that sonically, the sound and power that the German industrialists brought to the plate felt like you were being rhythmically punched square in the chest over and over again for an hour and a half. Yes, this is metal theatre, but ‘Ich Will’, ‘Keine Lust’, ‘Ich Tu Dir Weh’ et al provide a hell of a soundtrack to accompany the bedlam going on onstage.

If anybody out there left any arena on this jaunt and said that they were either bored or unimpressed, I encourage you to grab them by the ears and yell “they blew up fake dead babies who had lasers for eyes! What the fuck is wrong with you?!” in their faces instantly.

If you missed this show, your Facebook and Twitter feeds will doubtlessly have been flooded by people saying how incredible this show was. They weren’t exaggerating and if ever you needed a reason to get a ticket for Sonisphere, this is it. August can’t come quickly enough.

Sonisphere Knebworth will take place from July 30th – August 1st and will feature performances from Iron Maiden, Rammstein, Alice Cooper, Motley Crue, The Cult, Iggy & The Stooges, Slayer, Anthrax, Placebo, Bring Me The Horizon, Fear Factory and Henry Rollins with more to be announced.

www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/beez-rammstein-and-the-greatest-show-on-earth/

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[Salem6]

Courtney Love finally debuted her new Hole line-up last night (February 17) with a comeback Shockwaves NME Awards Show at London's O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire.

The first show under the band name in 11 years saw Love play a series of Hole classics alongside new material from forthcoming album 'Nobody's Daughter'.

Hole had been set to play a London club gig on February 11 – but it was cancelled after an illegal party nearby meant Love was stopped from leaving her hotel by police for safety reasons.

Last night eight new songs were debuted including 'Skinny Little Bitch', 'Honey', 'Letter To God', 'Pacific Coast Highway' – which Love described as "like 'Malibu Part 2'" – 'Nobody's Daughter', 'How Dirty Girls Get Clean', 'Samantha' and 'Never Go Hungry Again'.

Love, wearing a figure-hugging black laced suit and pink and blue tutu, opened the show with a medley of 'Pretty On The Inside' and The Rolling Stones' 'Sympathy For The Devil', on which she changed a line to "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels", referencing a quote attributed to Kate Moss.

'Reasons To Be Beautiful' was dedicated to her stylist, who she referred to as "my husband Panos, who makes me so beautiful", before Love paid tribute to the late designer Alexander McQueen.

After a hit-packed climax, Love returned to the stage solo for an acoustic encore, playing 'Northern Star' and new track 'Never Go Hungry Again'.

'Pretty On The Inside'/'Sympathy For The Devil'
'Skinny Little Bitch'
'Miss World'
'Honey'
'Violet'
'Letter To God'
'Pacific Coast Highway'
'Reasons To Be Beautiful'
'Nobody's Daughter'
'How Dirty Girls Get Clean'
'Malibu'
'Celebrity Skin'
'Samantha'
'Doll Parts'
'Northern Star'
'Never Go Hungry Again'


Such is Courtney Love's reputation for mayhem, the packed house at Shepherd's Bush Empire weren't even sure that she would turn up for tonight's gig. Her band, Hole, might not have played in the UK for over 10 years, but expectations for the evening ahead were running pretty low.


Rock star wife. Rock star widow. Drug addict. Actress. Tabloid train wreck. It seems that Love has lived a dozen lives, but, tonight, she's back to what made her famous in the first place, being frontwoman of the seminal grunge band and Nineties favourite, Hole. Some would argue that Hole don't really exist anymore, considering there are no original members besides Love, but let's face it, the focus was never on the others anyway. Hole is, and has always been, the Courtney Love show.

And so she appears, unexpectedly bang on time, a sort of trashy, gothic dolly. Her cascading pre-Raphaelite curls are held down by a sparkly headband, a purple lace prom dress clings to her wiry frame.

She leads the band straight into "Pretty on the Inside" and a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil", before they showcase some tracks from the forthcoming album, Nobody's Daughter, a record plagued by problems that has taken about five years in total to make. New songs like "Skinny Little Bitch" and "Samantha" prove that fans should be more excited than wary at the prospect of the first Hole album since 1998's Celebrity Skin.

There are some emotional moments during the evening, including a full-on ballad, "Letter to God" and the yearning "Pacific Coast Highway" but, happily, a number of classics are played, which see the whole room erupt. The familiar sound of "Miss World", "Malibu" and "Celebrity Skin" all result in crowd-surfing and drinks being sent flying. An encore of "Doll Parts" and "Northern Star" also delights the crowd, which judging by the wide age range, seems to be made up of new teenage fans as well as those who can remember when Courtney and Kurt met.

As the frontwoman, Love is assured and ballsy. Her voice, hardened by years of chain-smoking, is perfectly raspy for the demands of the music, but she's now 45 years old and out of practice with touring. She has a teleprompter on stage and she admits to being "rusty on the guitar". It's clear the gig physically takes its toll on her. After the main set, she looks worn and weary, her make-up smeared in sweat over her face, her fingers bleeding. But it also shows just how dedicated she is to giving the evening her all. And while Love may have sobered up, she hasn't lost the propensity to shock. She laughs in between songs that "we're a real band. We've all had loads of sex and drugs together".

Love her or hate her, tonight she rose above the endless controversies. Some people will always know her as a deranged mess, but to legions of other fans, she's rock's first lady and more than that she proves that she might still be a relevant force for today.

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/hole-shepherds-bush-empire-london-1906256.html



Review 2 follow - she ain't lost any of her attitude or voice :-D

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