Change of style of music with this one. Bit heavier than recent gigs, a warm up for Slam Dunk/Download perhaps? Can't complain.
New venue too, never been to Moho before but i plan on going again. The stage is pretty much floor level with only a barrier separating the crowd from the band. The roof is low and the entire venue is painted black with various drink logo's and clothing makes painted on the walls in white paint. It's like someone took Fibbers in York, squashed it so it was more of a square shape then threw Corp's interior designer in there. I loved it.
Failsafe and Thought Explode supported AWS. Thought Explode were only young lads. Bit rusty in their own words. Did enjoy it though, very melodic hardcore punk esc. Not much to say really. Failsafe are fairly known anyway, 2 albums under their belt and a 3rd on the way, plenty of material to play with. Another pretty melodic hardcore band, Failsafe knew how to play to a crowd. They got the crowd going and energy generally in the room flowing.
A Wilhelm Scream time (after approx 72.5% of the Jay-Z and Linkin Park cross over album on the sound system to which Adam seemed surprise i knew all the lyrics to the raps and singing :D ). The reason i love this band is because they are fast... very very fast and loud... very very loud and heavy... pretty damn heavy. Yet no real shouting. No heavy deep rough voices that over power the lyrics and music as a whole. If anything this band represent talent at its best. Ironically opening with 'Me Vs. Morrissey In The Pretentiousness Contest' in a Manchester venue the band quickly get the crowd jumping and crashing about. The set went on to have people crowd surfing directly onto the stage, almost knocking the lights off the roof. The band were pretty damn funny too with many an anecdote to tell we all seemed to be laughing when not violently moving our heads and feet to the musings of the 1000mph drums and bass. A big shout out has to go to the bassist.. ridiculously talented man. Possibly the best ive ever seen live. The crappy picture shows how manic and small that venue was.
Only complaint is that they didn't play my favourite song :( 'God Loves A Liar'. Otherwise.. Amazing night. Very warmed up for the next few weeks.
Peace
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