 Well at the moment, im not having the best of
luck getting into gigs strait away, theres that
period of waiting around with the feeling of uncertainty
or whether im getting into the gig on the night,
and on top of that, the gig tonight was supposed
to be 'sold out', in fact it was supposed to be
over capacity, my arse was it, there could have
been more than 50 people in there tonight when
it was supposed tobe sold out at over 150.
First band on were The Villain and I, a indie/rock
band from the west midlands, playing there second
ever gig,lucky bastards, for there second gig,
they wernt showing any nerves, as they took there
time through out there set, which went by without
incident, the music was well middle of the road
by the book indie/alt rock music, nothing really
grabbing you, or not much catchyness to keep you
entertained, they did get the crowd involved by
the way of getting them to clap during the last
song, but really there wasn't much going other
than that they played well together, but could
be a bit more risky when writing songs in the
future, im sure they'll be better when they've
played more gigs and got more material at there
disposal.
 Kyoto Drive were on next after the opener finally
made there way off stage, they were in no rush
really, this pop punk band were certainly active
during there set, but again like the first band,
more middle of the road droll, that you've heard
a million times before, pretty much all the songs
sounded the same,even through the ear plugs that
i wear. They played a tight set, it sounded like
that they hit very few bum notes, sadly the highlight
is how well they played and not what they played.
The main support act were, Save Your breath,
yet another pop punk band only this time from
wales, there were 5 of them running about on stage
and on more that one  occasion, they managed to
run into each other a fair few times, at least
with this band, some of the stuff they played
was fairly decent at times, they even played a
sugarbabes cover,'about you now', which wasn't
half bad, another good song that they played was
'lost boys', the vocalist had a fairly decent
voice albeit slightly American in accent ?? At
one point during the set, it seemed that the set
might have to be cut short due to one of the guitar
plays guitar deciding it didn't want to work for
about a minute or two, so they went into a bit
of an jam, note to any band, never jam live on
stage its just plain boring.
 Headlining this 'sold out' gig, were Attack Attack!
the third pop punk band of the night, playing
the most catchy pop punk of the night, playing
songs like 'honestly', 'from now on', 'you and
me' which will be featured on the next guitar
hero game, and set closers 'Time is up' and 'too
bad', now i have to say the longer the set went
on, the more that they started to sound like fall
out boy, not sure if its a bad thing, but they
certainly got the songs that are quite catchy
to the ears, along with there energetic performance,
these guys could go far,and maybe actually selling
venues, this gig is also the start of there summer
tour, which will take them around the country,
the gig even threatened to stop at one point,
due to talk of football, interrupting play, there
could have been some of match of the day viewed,
which would have been bad seeing as the crowd
were quite into what was going on up on stage,
the energy slowed down for awhile, but picked
up in the final throws of 'too bad', not a bad
finish to a gig that was on the whole a pretty
boring affair up until attack got on stage.
Attack Attack 4/5
Save Your Breath 3/5
Kyoto Drive 2/5
The Villian And I 3/5
Review By Rob Lawrence |
