Bo ningen

Headliner: bo ningen

Date: 15 may 2014

Venue: bodega social club

I first heard of bo ningen a few years ago when I made a spur of the moment decision to go and see them in derby without actually having heard them or indeed knowing much about them. And well to say I was blow away would have been an understatement absolute carnage a swirling mix of psychedelic noise, absolutely incredible. 

I have of course seen them since then and they have always blown me away and tonight would be no different complete insanity a total wall of noise, fuzz and psychedelic noise.

Absolutely amazing!

Albert Hammond jr

Headliner: Albert Hammond jr

Date: 12 may 14

Venue: bodega social club

The strokes possibly one of the most import pant bands of the last 10 years or so with that garage rock sound driven by Albert Hammond jrs guitar playing.

Tonight was an opportunity to see him in a small venue.

What can you say he's a bit of a legend and while an enjoyable set, well it just waste the strokes. I loved the cover of the buzzcocks ever fallen in love though

Dan le sac vs scroobius pip

Headliner: le sac vs pip

Venue: rescue rooms Nottingham

Date: 3 may 2014

Support: Sarah Williams White

So what a day, before tonight's gig I was celebrating promotion with 30000 other people at at the king power stadium in Leicester.

And to carry on the celebrations I was off to see le sac and pip at the rescue rooms.

First up tonight was Sarah Williams White, pleasant enough but kind of missed something with a band behind her I reckon she could be on to something, but keeping it simple on her own kind of missed a little something.

Time for le sac and pip, what can you say pip seems to be a genuine down to earth musician with a hell of a lot of talent, lyrically he's amazing.

Before and during the show pip kept mentioning that this would possibly be the last tour they made together and it was an honour to be at one of the last shows they will ever do.

Anyway they played a cracking set of old and new stuff and everything the crowd wanted to hear.

Feels sad that this would probably be the last time, but at the same time it's exciting to see what they both do next.

Pulled apart by horses

Headliner: pulled apart by horses

Venue: the musician Leicester

Date: 28 April 2014

Support: the Wytches

Pulled apart by horses eh.... First heard of these about 4possibly 5 years ago when they played a supporting slot for the Bronx at rock city sandwiched in the middle of their two sets one as mariachi El Bronx. Any way that night I had never heard of them but after about 30seconds it was like fuck yeah!!!!!

James brown on guitar pulling some serious shapes and tom the singer soloing on the bar before projectile vomiting into the audience, doesn't sound that well appealing but it was an ace gig!

Anyway they had been away a while and to celebrate their return they were playing a crazy amount of shows with the awesome Wytches in support.

I seem to be becoming a slight stalker of the Wytches having seen them I think 4 possibly 5 times in less than 12 months, but they are ace and make a right racket.

Time for the horses to leave the stable and boy what a return, they were ace ripping through some old favourites like I punched a lion, venom and the awesome hot squash.

Can't wait for the new album, it's already preordered!

NME awards tour

NME awards tour featuring

Interpol

Royal blood

Temples

Circa waves

Venue: rock city Nottingham

Date: 23 March 2014

Short and sweet review

Circa waves: boring, unoriginal and well noting special

Royal blood: second time I have seen them this year and they are ace, big powerful riffs, no messing around just straight to the point I just hope they are not rushed into making a quick release album and that they have time to grow and develop I to something special.

Temples: psychedelic pop music that somewhat fails to live up to expectations.

Interpol: excellent band but a short set I guess because of the line up tonight.

God is an astronaut

Headliner: gos is an astronaut

Venue: rock city Nottingham 

Date: 13 march 2014

First of all I have been totally rubbish at updating this blog so in order to keep it going the next few reviews will be short and sweet and then we will be back up to normal.

Upstairs at rock city tonight were we are scientists and a few years ago I would have been seeing them this evening, unfortunately their last couple of albums have been well rubbish as a result I was going to see god is an astronaut in the basement.

So what did I know about them not a lot to be honest, they are from Ireland and play post rock music.

They were ace, nice soundscapes epic post rock

Drake

Headliner: drake

Venue: capital fm arena Nottingham 

Date: 16/03/2014

Support: the weeknd

So time for a blog update as I got a bit slack on updating so I need to keep this blog going!

The gig tonight was a bit of a culture shock thing for me as I was taking someone to see drake as a favour. I don't really know much about drake other than he's pretty popular and he did that song that sampled the awesome jamie xx vs Gil Scott heron tune which was far better in my opinion. It was also a bit of a culture shock as it cost nearly fifty cough splutter quid for a ticket! I reckon I could manage about 8 gigs for that normally.

Anyway after getting into the venue it was packed and I was shocked about the number of orange people it was like an oompah lumbar convention, just don't get the massive obsession with excessive fake tan.

The support tonight was the weeknd, I first heard of the weeknd when he started releasing his free mixtapes a few years ago and I was probably more looking forward to his show, however with the elaborate stage set up for drake behind a curtain and the weeknd and band wedged onto a corner of the stage I didn't see much but it was ok, would have preferred it in a small venue though.

The best bit was hearing the song professional which samples the amazing emika

Anyway time for drake, as he entered the stage from a lift right at the back the crowd where going crazy, fire effects from the sides of the stage made me check my eyebrows where still intact as I thought they had been melted off. 

Halfway through the set his dj's played about ten of his songs for about 30seconds each which I'm not sure constitutes playing live anyway when this thing started to descend from the roof I didn't know what to think

Rating this kind of accessory on a Dillinger escape plan scale of 1-10 it got a 1 if you don't jump of this then well you're missing a trick.

All we got was drake walking around it for about 15mins saying you over there in the hat I see you etc.

Anyway maybe it's just me but I'm not that comfortable in a venue like this and maybe it's all wasted on me but personally I would rather pay half the ticket price, have no fancy things coming down from the roof or stage set ups including fireworks and just feel a bit closer to the artist.