brap
Jul 20, 2004, 06:41 PM
OK, so in the last 10 days I've had the pleasure (ish) of seeing a couple of bands I've wanted to for a long, long while.
KMFDM - not a major fan, think they're very much an up-and-down band. Symbols rocked, and their stuff with Ogre was unbef**kinglievable.
Skinny Puppy - the 2 Kevins are my gods, seriously. I have an SP tattoo on my arm, and the entire discography. Oh yes.
So anyway, KMFDM. Isn't KMFDM anymore. See, Sascha Koneetcoapfklgnsogfhjobnl (or whatever) may think the world revolves around him, but it doesn't. He and Lucia Ciafarelli decided to go on tour to promote "WWIII" under the KMFDM moniker. No, uh-uh, not a chance. A couple of egomaniacs with all the vocal talent of the ********* Spice Girls is what greeted me at Mean Fiddler in London, incidentally the worst venue I've ever had the misfortune to be in. They brutalised classics such as 'Light' and 'Waste', and even the new sucky stuff sounded awful. In the end, we came to the conclusion that KMFDM was nothing without either Esch or Ray Watts, whom I believed was on the tour :(. Not even the 12" iBook they had on stage could save them...
Skinny Puppy. Oh, man, the support sucked, but when they lifted the curtain hiding the SP stage show the entire Forum, 2000+ people went crazy. Ogre arrived after keeping the audience suspended during the first song in a blood soaked, demon-esque straitjacket, proceeding to hammer out 3 storming tracks from 'The Greater Wrong of the Right'. Next up came some older stuff, tracks from Process which were never before played. The lighting, stage show, and general conduct of the band was immaculate. cEvin Key was like some kind of maniacal cyborg working in his enlosure, surrounded by walls of synth equpiment (and a 15" Al PB on the rack :) ), and whoever the hell they had as live guitar wasn't too shoddy either. What was the letdown here were the Security staff. Gorillas who took pleasure in trampling my partner to get at some guy with a camera. Had these morons done their job properly in the first pace, it would not have been necessary, but they routinely stood in a row, obscuring the band, and assaulted those on or around the front. it was, however, interesting to see Ogre spit blood/mud and vomit all over those f**kheads... anyone who's ever seen a live SP show will know, it gets messy... I also took sympathy with the subliminal Dubya-bashing which was everpresent on the video wall. The only downside I found was the omission of any solo material from either, and a complete lack of my favourite ever song in the whole wide world (ever).Smothered hope.
The SP gig was a defining moment in my miserable life, much the same as the last time I saw Ministry. KMFDM, as they say, sucks. Keeping it up for the old school, lets hear it for Ogre. Give me a hallelujah!
KMFDM - not a major fan, think they're very much an up-and-down band. Symbols rocked, and their stuff with Ogre was unbef**kinglievable.
Skinny Puppy - the 2 Kevins are my gods, seriously. I have an SP tattoo on my arm, and the entire discography. Oh yes.
So anyway, KMFDM. Isn't KMFDM anymore. See, Sascha Koneetcoapfklgnsogfhjobnl (or whatever) may think the world revolves around him, but it doesn't. He and Lucia Ciafarelli decided to go on tour to promote "WWIII" under the KMFDM moniker. No, uh-uh, not a chance. A couple of egomaniacs with all the vocal talent of the ********* Spice Girls is what greeted me at Mean Fiddler in London, incidentally the worst venue I've ever had the misfortune to be in. They brutalised classics such as 'Light' and 'Waste', and even the new sucky stuff sounded awful. In the end, we came to the conclusion that KMFDM was nothing without either Esch or Ray Watts, whom I believed was on the tour :(. Not even the 12" iBook they had on stage could save them...
Skinny Puppy. Oh, man, the support sucked, but when they lifted the curtain hiding the SP stage show the entire Forum, 2000+ people went crazy. Ogre arrived after keeping the audience suspended during the first song in a blood soaked, demon-esque straitjacket, proceeding to hammer out 3 storming tracks from 'The Greater Wrong of the Right'. Next up came some older stuff, tracks from Process which were never before played. The lighting, stage show, and general conduct of the band was immaculate. cEvin Key was like some kind of maniacal cyborg working in his enlosure, surrounded by walls of synth equpiment (and a 15" Al PB on the rack :) ), and whoever the hell they had as live guitar wasn't too shoddy either. What was the letdown here were the Security staff. Gorillas who took pleasure in trampling my partner to get at some guy with a camera. Had these morons done their job properly in the first pace, it would not have been necessary, but they routinely stood in a row, obscuring the band, and assaulted those on or around the front. it was, however, interesting to see Ogre spit blood/mud and vomit all over those f**kheads... anyone who's ever seen a live SP show will know, it gets messy... I also took sympathy with the subliminal Dubya-bashing which was everpresent on the video wall. The only downside I found was the omission of any solo material from either, and a complete lack of my favourite ever song in the whole wide world (ever).Smothered hope.
The SP gig was a defining moment in my miserable life, much the same as the last time I saw Ministry. KMFDM, as they say, sucks. Keeping it up for the old school, lets hear it for Ogre. Give me a hallelujah!
