NIGHTMARE BEFORE VALENTINES DAY 2 Live At The Gaff 13.02.10 (Gig Review)

SPIDERBABY
AL B DAMNED
CATFIGHT
WASTED SINNERS
ASP

The Gaff, Holloway Road 13.02.10

ASP
Final performance from the short-lived project who decided to burn out in front of a huge audience with masks, hats and burning guitars!!

WASTED SINNERS
Have to say these guys really blew me away tonight, they put on a great show, very entertaining and the songs are catchy and they got everybody dancing, add to that a huge show-stopping rock ballad and a mass stage invasion, they are potentially going to be huge this year.

CATFIGHT
Once again Samara's grunge/punk crew take the stage and proceed to destroy, perfectley executed songs flow and John, Simon and Seb play their hearts out leaving Samara to play and sing centre stage with total confidence.
A couple of new songs were thrown in as well, one with a country feel didnt sit too well with the overall set but its diversity shows that the band are prepared to take chances and push themselves creatively.
The final song was their classic 'Kill Me Again' now with Simon on the dual vocals the song has come of age, just perfect!!!!

AL B DAMNED
With the band onstage waiting to start the singer was nowhere to be seen, however coming through the crowd was a funeral procession carrying a coffin which was placed in front of the stage and singer Joey emerged to huge cheers and then the music just exploded.
In a short period of time the band have matured into possibley the most exciting band in the uk at the moment, its a full stage show backed by songs full of sing a long chorus's, the new songs also show a new level to Joey's vocal abilities with screams and harmony definately creating new textures and with amore agressive and heavier sound.
We were treated to their full set and still the audience demanded more, it was 100% pure entertainment!


STU

ASP

WASTED SINNERS

CATFIGHT

AL B DAMNED

SPIDERBABY

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BANGTOY,AFFLUENZA,SOLSIKK,ASP Live At The Gaff 14.11.09 (Gig Review)

BANGTOY
AFFLUENZA
SOLSIKK
ASP

The Gaff, Holloway Road 14.11.09

ASP
So cant really review my own band can i????
It was fun, i forgot the lyrics to the new song but remembered most of the others which considering i havent sung them for nearly 20 years aint bad!!!!My band just did 4 songs and total respect to Dave from thrash legends Virus for playing drums and to Mark and Pawel for bass and guitar from the Lightning Riders.

SOLSIKK
Time for a real band to take the stage, did i say take? I mean storm!!!!I tell you Solsikk are the best damn female fronted metal band in London if not the whole of England, im not joking here they are amazing, such great musicianship and superb vocals with a great range, there is nothing to fault.

High speed drumming from Matt is matched by Mark's pounding bass and as for chris' guitar work, it is stunning especially the solo on 'Cuts A Little Deeper' possibley the best solo of 2009!
Vykki's vocals range from mellow to agressive and just blows Angela Gossow off the planet!That this band are not a household name is a shame, but in 2010 i have a feeling that will change!

AFFLUENZA
Yet again the band deny me the oppertunity of writing a bad review!
In fact i have to say the band are geting better, there is a definite Black Sabbath influence flowing through their music and add to that a modern almost static x/fear factory style drumming and great basswork it is now quite a sound!
Vocalist Al screams with a vengeance every single word and the new song tonight was really good.

BANGTOY
Their first headline show and it has to be said their best performance so far as well.Such was their confidence they started the set with a brand new song called 'Do It On The Floor', then launchd into the old classics, vocalist Frank was on form tonight as were the rest of the band.
Outstanding song of the night was another new one called 'Feel The Fire' it has all the elements of "hit".

STU

ASP

SOLSIKK

AFFLUENZA

BANGTOY

T.O.O.T.H - ERIC THE FRUITBAT 1979 - 1982 (Free Cd Download)

01.Silver Machine (07.03.80)

02.DestroyAr (07.03.80)

03.Taking It all Away (April 1981)

04.Obscure Weirdness (August 1981)

05.All Along The Watchtower (September 1982)

06.Spirit Of The Age (September 1982)

07.Hanging Around (Septemeber 1982)

08.First Ever Recording (26.10.79)

09.Bedroom Band Fucking Around (December 1979)

Stu (Vocals/Guitars/Drums/Keyboards)

Kev (Bass/Drums/Vocals/Guitar)

With :

Jah Leroy (Drums)

Bobby Vincent (Bass)

Steve Sabbath Cook (Drums)

Peter Lawrence (Guitar)

A bunch of very old recordings from very poor cassette tapes.

From hearing these back its weird to think that we were part of the NWOBHM at all, we were just a rock band with strange influences like the Stranglers, Hawkwind, Crass and Motorhead.

But as with 'Obscure Weirdness' there was an avante garde element to what we did, which i guess came from me and Kev's love of bands like Faust and Can.

There is nothing outstanding here, so dont expect the wow factor, but looking back i think we had something unique.

STU

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