Blitzkrieg??? A band who, let's face it, never quite made an impression, and if we're being totally honest, just about no-one would remember if it weren't for a certain B-side by a certain Mega-Metal band . (Hint for the hard-of-thinking : Metallica) If this was 1983, I would definitely be in there, keen to check them out, but not today. To see a young hungry band emerging from an exciting new scene is one thing, to see some old farts who have been treading water, totally invisible to the vast majority, for the past 25 years is quite another.
I hope you enjoy them, Princess, I am sure that you, along with the 2 band girlfriends and their couple of 16yr old cousins (at their first ever gig) will have a blinder, jumping around just in front of the singer. I feel also sure that he will focus on that little group, almost as if there was no-one else in the room..........That's because there won't be, well, not anyone else who gives a flying fuck. Everyone else will be just gritting their teeth, putting up with the inevitable full-on Cheddar dick-cheese assault, praying for the end so Saxon can come and save us.
It's a crying shame, it really is, Saxon should be taking out bands with PROVEN track records, bands who the average Saxon fan will associate with. Spare us the pub bands, we see them week in, week out, for free. When we go to a show, we want to see something of a little higher quality.
It's not like they need to have a shit support so they can look better, we all know that Saxon could comfortably kick any band you wish to mention right up the shitter, in terms of confidence, stage-craft, presence, musicianship etc, and that's before you even mention the music and songs!!!!!
Looks like it's another evening in the bar then! And I probably won't be able to convince any of my old-fart mates to come with me (the kind of guys who used to go up to Bingley Hall to see Saxon), they now have mortgages, kids, (Grand-kids, YIKES!!!!)etc. To travel to Wolverhampton to see one band? Naaaah, can't afford it. To go and see a couple of bands they used to enjoy? Hmmmm, just maybe, and hey, they'll take the Old Boot too, make a night of it.
Mark my words, if Saxon don't start to think about things like this, they WILL sink beneath the waves, despite the best efforts of you or I , the die-hard fans who will go and see them in a garage. Short of releasing a killer trend-setting new musical genre on the world at large, which I think you'll agree is highly unlikely, the best way of sustaining interest in the band would be to put together interesting bills, and make the gigs worth the ticket price from the moment the first band gets on stage, not just "Saxon + Some losers". Sooner or later, the not-quite-die-hard fans start to feel short-changed, and put their ticket money towards a Saga break or something, instead of joining us in the throng!!!
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