GIGS : Mika Bomb
Went and saw this gig with Mat from work
First Band - forgotten name.
These guys played a really tight set of punk stuff. Very professional and neat. Boring. The lead singer was just annoying and the guitarist was the only one with personality (remind you of anyone mark?), but ultimately it was the unimaginative old-school punk tracks that they played that bored me silly.
The Barbs
These guys were unprofessional, dissorganised, but great fun! Once they started they were pretty tight (I think they had to be - they had a crappy sequencer for some of their songs) but they totally wrecked the atmosphere by taking upwards of 3 minutes between songs.
Fun stuff though; the last three songs rocked with titles such as 'I live on vampire time' and ' I only do it for the Danger, Man' (which is all about the reason they play in a band).
They had a male and female singer and, while they were both really hot, they did 2/3 times actually take advantage of that doing some interesting stuff with call/response and canon.
Mika Bomb
Tight, professional and fun. Mat actually left halfway through because he didn't find their sound very interesting, which is a fair call as they were fairly formulaic (after bashing the first band I guess that's a bit hypocritical). I just have athing for cute Japanese girls singing in English, knowing full well that they can't pronounce stuff so they make sure their chorouses have words with Rs and Ls in them!
I bought their CD whcih is good, quite a different sound from live and so an interesting experience to have two takes on the same songs. Oh! The bass player rocked too! He was the only visible guy, and was one of those classic neo-Japanese with white, heavily layered hair and a 'fag' (Actually nicorrete straw thing) hanging from his mouth for the whole gig ; ultra-cool!
First Band - forgotten name.
These guys played a really tight set of punk stuff. Very professional and neat. Boring. The lead singer was just annoying and the guitarist was the only one with personality (remind you of anyone mark?), but ultimately it was the unimaginative old-school punk tracks that they played that bored me silly.
The Barbs
These guys were unprofessional, dissorganised, but great fun! Once they started they were pretty tight (I think they had to be - they had a crappy sequencer for some of their songs) but they totally wrecked the atmosphere by taking upwards of 3 minutes between songs.
Fun stuff though; the last three songs rocked with titles such as 'I live on vampire time' and ' I only do it for the Danger, Man' (which is all about the reason they play in a band).
They had a male and female singer and, while they were both really hot, they did 2/3 times actually take advantage of that doing some interesting stuff with call/response and canon.
Mika Bomb
Tight, professional and fun. Mat actually left halfway through because he didn't find their sound very interesting, which is a fair call as they were fairly formulaic (after bashing the first band I guess that's a bit hypocritical). I just have athing for cute Japanese girls singing in English, knowing full well that they can't pronounce stuff so they make sure their chorouses have words with Rs and Ls in them!
I bought their CD whcih is good, quite a different sound from live and so an interesting experience to have two takes on the same songs. Oh! The bass player rocked too! He was the only visible guy, and was one of those classic neo-Japanese with white, heavily layered hair and a 'fag' (Actually nicorrete straw thing) hanging from his mouth for the whole gig ; ultra-cool!
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are you referring to Corporation? Can't be - we weren't professional or tight, and I can't think of which 'guitarist' had personality. Our singer wasn't annoying either.... Any decision on the metal gig?
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