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Unholy Trinity Report
Sep. 21st, 2008 09:04 pmI was in Tesco earlier and it was FULL OF CHINESE PEOPLE. ie. About 1 in 3 of the shoppers were Chinese. Where on earth did they all come from? (No marks are available for saying 'China'.) I know Nottingham Uni has a lot of Chinese students but why were they all doing their shopping in town, today?
Anyway, that's not what I'm posting about.
On Friday I went to see Paradise Lost, Anathema, and My Dying Bride in London, playing a 20th anniversary show. It was an enjoyable event, very busy, and I got to speak briefly to people like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
drusilla_filth + boyfriend and erishkigal who I don't see often. The show itself was a bit odd though. The venue was an impressive old theatre with good viewing from all locations and plenty of seating upstairs, two bars, sound desk directly in front of the stage, so all should have been good. Unfortunately, it was quite difficult to reach the bars, the music was a little too quiet - you could hear talking throughout the songs - and one of the sound guys managed to completely emasculate both Anathema's and Paradise Lost's sets by rendering the rhythm guitars almost inaudible.
The setlists themselves were a little odd - Anathema played a decent mix of old and new (including 'A Dying Wish', which was nice, except for the annoying Pink Floyd bit added in the middle), but My Dying Bride pulled out a few unusual tracks to showcase the return of the violin to their live sound, and Paradise Lost loaded the set almost entirely with tracks from their last album or Draconian Times (which they played almost half of - Enchantment, Hallowed Land, The Last Time, Shadowkings, and not-heard-live-by-me-since-95 Elusive Cure), at the expense of other classics (no Pity The Sadness, True Belief, Sweetness, or Embers Fire, though we did get Remembrance).
Add in a few minor irritations (burly bald guys 'enjoying' a rather unnecessary moshpit, people smoking in the crowd when that is quite obviously not allowed, PL's stand-in drummer not quite being up to scratch yet, Greg messing up quite a few of the lead lines, and possibly the slowest-serving merchandise stall I've ever seen in 13 years of gigs), and it was definitely an occasion with mixed feelings for me. Oh well!
I don't think there are any decent gigs lined up for the near future - perhaps Gorgoroth, I dunno. Anybody have any others on the list?
Anyway, that's not what I'm posting about.
On Friday I went to see Paradise Lost, Anathema, and My Dying Bride in London, playing a 20th anniversary show. It was an enjoyable event, very busy, and I got to speak briefly to people like
drusilla_filth + boyfriend and erishkigal who I don't see often. The show itself was a bit odd though. The venue was an impressive old theatre with good viewing from all locations and plenty of seating upstairs, two bars, sound desk directly in front of the stage, so all should have been good. Unfortunately, it was quite difficult to reach the bars, the music was a little too quiet - you could hear talking throughout the songs - and one of the sound guys managed to completely emasculate both Anathema's and Paradise Lost's sets by rendering the rhythm guitars almost inaudible.The setlists themselves were a little odd - Anathema played a decent mix of old and new (including 'A Dying Wish', which was nice, except for the annoying Pink Floyd bit added in the middle), but My Dying Bride pulled out a few unusual tracks to showcase the return of the violin to their live sound, and Paradise Lost loaded the set almost entirely with tracks from their last album or Draconian Times (which they played almost half of - Enchantment, Hallowed Land, The Last Time, Shadowkings, and not-heard-live-by-me-since-95 Elusive Cure), at the expense of other classics (no Pity The Sadness, True Belief, Sweetness, or Embers Fire, though we did get Remembrance).
Add in a few minor irritations (burly bald guys 'enjoying' a rather unnecessary moshpit, people smoking in the crowd when that is quite obviously not allowed, PL's stand-in drummer not quite being up to scratch yet, Greg messing up quite a few of the lead lines, and possibly the slowest-serving merchandise stall I've ever seen in 13 years of gigs), and it was definitely an occasion with mixed feelings for me. Oh well!
I don't think there are any decent gigs lined up for the near future - perhaps Gorgoroth, I dunno. Anybody have any others on the list?
