just come back from the London gig by a small band called OPETH....
Withering Surface - Crap, Iron Maiden wannabees, redeeming feature, they didnt feel the urge to say London all the time (which most if not all non-british bands say about 5-6 times a gig)
Arch Enemy - shes got a good growl i must say, but at the end of the day none of the support bands were my cup of tea, so don't bother replying with abuse about how great they are, i understand you might like them, just i didnt. the last 2-3 songs were alright/good.
what can i say about Opeth though, better than the last time (December 4th) better sound, better performance, better crowd.
two changes from the set that was on the last tour:
The Leper Affinity
GODHEADS LAMENT - only 2nd ever time played live
Advent
The Drapery Falls
Credence
THE FUNERAL PORTRAIT - never heard that one live before, brilliant, awesome, highlight of the show
White Cluster
Demon Of The Fall
the order is roughly right, hmm, i as far as i can remember that means that they played one less song, never realised that, well Mikael said that they had to be quick for Demon of the fall as the club was being used afterwards, thats maybe why, cant say im too bothered, it was still great, no Orchid track this time though.
at the end i got about 6 nice new BWP tour/re-release A3 posters, which was nice, a gave a few away, being the nice person i am...
in short it was a brilliant gig as you would expect, The Funeral Portrait is a must live listen, i mean its just wow, its a great live song, i see it in the live set as a regular soon.
oh and one more thing, i have to say that i've seen some support bands i've never heard of before and enjoyed them, BUT i think that support is a bit long and dull at times, when you dont like them that is, so i say bands should only have ONE support band for a 30/45 minute set, i mean because of having that extra support band (Withering Surface) Opeth had to sacrafice a song, and a lot of other bands ive seen have had to cut out a few songs as they ran out of time...but Opeth were great, im so happy they swapped the dates round with Manchester i think it was, otherwise i wouldnt have been able to go
Withering Surface - Crap, Iron Maiden wannabees, redeeming feature, they didnt feel the urge to say London all the time (which most if not all non-british bands say about 5-6 times a gig)
Arch Enemy - shes got a good growl i must say, but at the end of the day none of the support bands were my cup of tea, so don't bother replying with abuse about how great they are, i understand you might like them, just i didnt. the last 2-3 songs were alright/good.
what can i say about Opeth though, better than the last time (December 4th) better sound, better performance, better crowd.
two changes from the set that was on the last tour:
The Leper Affinity
GODHEADS LAMENT - only 2nd ever time played live
Advent
The Drapery Falls
Credence
THE FUNERAL PORTRAIT - never heard that one live before, brilliant, awesome, highlight of the show
White Cluster
Demon Of The Fall
the order is roughly right, hmm, i as far as i can remember that means that they played one less song, never realised that, well Mikael said that they had to be quick for Demon of the fall as the club was being used afterwards, thats maybe why, cant say im too bothered, it was still great, no Orchid track this time though.
at the end i got about 6 nice new BWP tour/re-release A3 posters, which was nice, a gave a few away, being the nice person i am...
in short it was a brilliant gig as you would expect, The Funeral Portrait is a must live listen, i mean its just wow, its a great live song, i see it in the live set as a regular soon.
oh and one more thing, i have to say that i've seen some support bands i've never heard of before and enjoyed them, BUT i think that support is a bit long and dull at times, when you dont like them that is, so i say bands should only have ONE support band for a 30/45 minute set, i mean because of having that extra support band (Withering Surface) Opeth had to sacrafice a song, and a lot of other bands ive seen have had to cut out a few songs as they ran out of time...but Opeth were great, im so happy they swapped the dates round with Manchester i think it was, otherwise i wouldnt have been able to go
