Cool evening

[karohemd]

Many thanks to scy11a and crew for putting together a great gig at the Boat Race!

Was late because of much work at work, had to go home because I forgot to take my camera so when I got there about 7:40, skelliga were already playing. I liked.
The audience consisted, not surprisingly, of mostly Camgoths so I knew quite a few people and even more faces.

Next were the Scary Bitches and they rocked mightily. Fun, silly and wonderous costumes. Had to buy a CD, got their autograph and had to take a photo of them with andrewdavies. Great stage presence, funny lyrics and nice people. My main reason to go to the Boat Race and definitely worth the cover price alone.

Last were Swarf. Their stuff ranged from electro goth to almost decent EBM, so I pretty much danced through the second half of the gig, As andrewdavies put it, they're pleasant and OK but nothing special. Also, the beat and sound structure seems a bit odd, you're often thrown off balance a bit. The vocals don't quite fit in, either, strangely.
Curiously, I thought they sounded a bit like Evanescence, similar vocals that are sort of away from the structure of the music. What works with Evanescence doesn't quite work with Swarf.

Almost also bought two Cryonica CD samplers but I'm trying to cut back a bit on electro stuff and expand other areas of my music collection more and I'm also trying to save money.

I took quite a few pictures but only a couple turned out well. The lighting wasn't too good so most of the pics I took without flash are far too fuzzy.
I'll upload what I've got sometime tomorrow.

Comments

[sogoth.livejournal.com]

" but I'm trying to cut back a bit on electro stuff"

It'll never happen with me around offering suggestions ;)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

The MNS newsletter doesn't help, either.
I think my electro collection is short of overtaking my rock collection which is scary.
I'll be concentrating more on classic Funk/Soul/Blues as I have far too little of that, main reason being it's music that works a lot better live as opposed to electro.

[raggedyman.livejournal.com]

please dont say my pic with the bitches is a duffer :-(

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, they're great. It wasn't on stage, remember?

[razornet.livejournal.com]

I don't agree at all. Quite the reverse in fact, Evanescence are luke warm to me. Their vocalist is proficient and polished but otherwise dry. I like them, but only to the point that I'll listen to them if someone else puts them on. Their vocalist is *all* they have, everything else just stinks of a production line. Having a sweet voiced singer is a plus, but its like Korn having a bagpipe player. It barely salvages a bad band. The bagpipes were cool but the songs were awful. The voice is great, the songs suck. Nothing comes across with any feeling, its target marketing.

The fact that Swarf leave you slightly off balance should be viewed as a plus. They are different, honest, new and exciting. They are not another Apoppity/VNV Nation clone, pretension is absent from their performance and I was absorbed immediately into it. All in all it was a fantastic show with an amazing lineup.

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[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I never said I liked Evanescence, though.