 Black
Veil Brides headlined the Civic Hall in Wolverhampton
tonight a show that was originally due to happen
last October but was rescheduled due to front
man Andy Biersack breaking his nose live on stage.
We got to Wolverhampton quite early and from the
moment we got there the town was full of people
dressed in black and covered in different variations
of the Black Veil Brides style face and body paint.
After a little bit of trouble picking up our photopass
we managed to get into the venue in time for D.R.U.G.S
to take to the stage at 8.30pm, now D.R.U.G.S
are a band who have  been
together for just over a year and have already
enjoyed major success in the UK so it was good
to catch them live once again before they take
a break from touring to work on new material.
Frontman Craig Owens is on top form tonight running
across the stage screaming his lungs off and when
he is not on stage he is either climbing the big
speaker stacks getting him that little bit closer
to the fans in the balconies or in the crowd getting
shirtless whilst blasting out his raw vocals.
D.R.U.G.S managed to fit in a good selection of
songs from their debut album into their set tonight
such as ‘Mr. Owl Ate My Metal Worm’,
‘My Swagger Has A First Name’, ‘The
Only Thing You Talk About’ but it was ‘Sex
Life’ and ‘If You Think This Song
Is About You, It Probably Is’ that the crowd
reacted to the most tonight with Craig leaving
the crowd to sing for the majority of ‘Sex
Life’ and ‘If You Think This Song
Is About You’ ending the set perfectly with
Craig sweating it out with the fans in the pit.
 The
Black Veil Brides were due to take to the stage
at 9.30pm and minutes before this the crowd erupted
into massive screams which were loud enough to
pierce your ears, I have never heard such a positive
welcome to a band moments before they take to
the stage in my life and as the Black Veil Brides
walk onto the stage these screams become louder
and louder as the fans welcome their musical heroes
with their hands in the air and screams at volume
11.
 The
band wasted no time getting the rock and roll
show in motion by kicking straight into ‘New
Religion’ which saw them conquer the stage
with pure energy the whole band was on top form
and I am sure that everyone’s eyes were
constantly moving as no member of the Black Veil
Brides stayed in the same place for long apart
from Christian Coma who had no choice whilst drumming.
As the set progressed we were treated to a drum
solo from Christian Coma whilst he preformed whilst
blind folded and he simply showed off his skills
and knocked out one  hell
of a drum solo which even featured some sound
snippets of Daft Punks ‘Around The World’,
the solo felt never ending as every time you thought
that was it and was about to clap Christian Coma
had more tricks up his sleeve.
Half way through the set Andy Biersack made a
joke which people who have been reading his tweets
would understand when they launched into ‘God
Bless You’ with Biersack calling the song
‘God Bless Shampoo’ in relation to
the bands hygiene on tour.
 There
was no letting up for the Black Veil Brides as
they knocked out one great song after another
and made them sound even better than they do on
record, the Black Veil Brides are an extremely
tight sounding live band but then they should
be as they have been relentlessly touring ever
since the release of their debut album ‘We
Stitch These Wounds’.
Tonight’s show was easily one of the best
gigs I have seen in a long time and both D.R.U.G.S
and the Black Veil Brides are fastly becoming
my new favourite bands and I am sure that the
majority of tonight’s strong 3000 crowd
would agree, I can see the Black Veil Brides moving
up to selling out arenas in the next couple of
years especially more so when album number three
drops and the haters will continue to hate yet
the lovers will love even more and Black Veil
Brides will become the superstars they set out
to be.
D.R.U.G.S 4/5
Black Veil Brides 5/5
Review By Trigger
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