don't get excited, i haven't gone all scene on you...
this was billed as Architects and Shaped by Fate and was gonna be a nicely metal way to kill some time before the ASBO gig later that night just round the corner at the Barfly so me and BigJon turn up ready for a bit of hardcore goodness.
it's worth mentioning at this point that unless they went on first (unlikely), Architects didn't actually play which was a shame as everything i've heard has impressed me greatly but there you go.
anyway, there's a massive que of scenester teenagers outside when we turn up so we go for lunch first and as we walk in Shaped by Fate take the stage and fire into their set with gusto. i don't know a massive amount about the band other than what's on their MySpace page but the kids are instantly bouncing around and the band themselves are full of energy (although i can't deny i was dissappointed to see them all doing Hardcore-Dancing style scissor kicks etc throughout the set). sounding like a death metal tinged Botch, the welshlanders rage around for a good half hour or so of well constructed tech metal though i'd have to say nothing really grabs you by the balls in the way that all the bands i could mention as obvious influences would but then they do all look rather young so maybe they'll grow into it and what's on display is all of a high quality. arguably more enjoyable, however, is watching all the kids stage *ahem* 'diving' throughout the set. this envolves waiting til they reckon the crowd will catch them then laying down ontop of the outstretched hands. this did, however, lead to the highly satisfying sight of one lad standing there for ages til he was certain he was gonna be safe to promptly get caught, flipped over the top and pile-drivered face first into the floor. dear god i laughed for hours over that...
the next band i think were called Shortcut to Newark. they looked like The Ordinary Boys, they sounded like The Ordinary boys, needless to say the kids loved 'em and needless to say, me and BigJ went to the bar. as we came back in for their last song they had about twenty kids dancing on stage but this doesn't excuse them for being thoroughly fucking gash in my opinion...
final band on are called The Priscillas, all girl and all about 35 years old, it's not looking good. The singer looks like a poor mans susie sioux and the rest look like tubby courtney loves. predictably they sound like substandard Kenickie but are enjoying themselves and the girls in the audience are as well. strangely, their songs are very catchy and by the end of about the third song (about zombies! good effort that girl!) i'm enjoying myself a lot. they stroll confidently through their material and the set ends with a ticker tape cannon being fired across the stage/audience making everyone laugh and smile. much more fun than i was expecting and the whole thing was worth the effort simply for the looks on the 14 year old scenester girls faces as they were confronted with themselves in twenty years time. i'm fairly sure that at least a couple of them must've cried themselves to sleep that night.
all in all, i wasn't that gutted at having paid £3 to not get to see Architects...
No comments:
Post a Comment