3 Way Dance - The Filaments, Freaks Union, Bosseye, The Mingers
 

Right, this was at rock city the other day and it was heavy. First band up were the mingers, started of with the wise crack 'come on guys, get down the front, pretend your at a gig or something.' :lol: which i though was funny anyway. Pretty good band, the singer was a woman and she was pretty crazy seemed to like my friend, kept sticking the mike in his face cause i think he felt intimitaded lol. Good guitar, excellent bass, good music although the drummer looked constpated. 7/10

Next up was bosseye. these guys were so good it was unbeliable, theyve just got a new singer WHO RAPS, and to all you noobs that say rap is bad, this isnt. The sax was really great, quite jazzy, and i managed to get a little pit going but this guy pushed me onto the stage so i just danced on there with the sax lady for abit. 9/10

Then it was the freaks union. OMG! How good can u get, these guys are immense at everything they do, guitairst is so good its amazing, and they had these two punks that just follow them to all there gigs on the stage giving it some shouting. Definatly the best band there. 10/10

The headliners, the filaments, were really good. Men of the law was my fave, and the pit was absolutly amazing, but they only played 6 songs. :amaze: which was abit gay. Bastard Coppers was great, alot of '**** the pigs' going on. It was quite ironic cause a cop gave us directions to the place :naughty: lol. 8/10

if anyone is going to the last three way dance gigs good look to you, it owns.
9/10

4ft Fingers + Sidekick
 

I missed the first band because I was late.

THe first band I saw was a band called Nagatha Krusti featuring Ross Noble in a skin-tight see-through vest and Big Daddy in Kiss facepaint on Drums. They were good musicians, particularly the lead guitarist and the bassist and their songs were okay. They were ska-core with some rapping vocals. They sound a lot like King Prawn in my opinion but not as good. 7/10

Sidekick were next. They took awhile to get going but they played well. Their songs were a lot simpler than Nagatha Krusti's but they played a lot tighter. The highpoint of their set was when they got some of the 4ft Fingers guys on stage and covered Take 'Em All. I seemed to be the only person there who knew the song. For their last song the got some other guy on stage to sing "Breaking The Law" 8.5/10

4ft Fingers played well. I didn't really know any of their songs but my favourite one was some ska song they played. I still can't mosh because of my shoulder which pissed me off as the pit looked great fun. The only reason they score lower than Sidekick is that they didn't play any Cock Sparrer covers. 8/10


On a side note I was really pissed off that The Da[U]m[/U]ned weren't playing Oxford this year (particularly as they played last year and I missed it) but while I was at the gig I spotted a sign by the merchandise stand saying "The [B]Da[/B]mned + 4ft Fingers, 18th November at The Zodiac" so it looks like they're playing an unpublicised gig. :cool:

October 29th

Hotcakes - f'kin awesome. The guy was wearing just whitey tighties and he was throwing random crap at people, and they even covered the Misfits song Die, Die My Darling. They were hilariously good.

And then there was this other band that had saxophones. They sucked as[b][i][/b][/i]s.

I was also dressed up like Dracula.

Zeke: saw them on the 6th of november, effin terrible. They had to have been the biggest assholes in the world, making fun of people in the crowd, walking offstage, just terrible. The openers tho, Black Halos, they kicked ***

hha zeke are great, thats what they do, they take the piss out of the crowd.

I saw Leftover Crack last night, and they were really good. Played some great fast songs, and there was a decent pit.

There were a couple of decent UK hardcore bands supporting called Fireapple red and Five Knuckle who both put on a good display as well. A good night

Ensign/xOne Wayx/Marathon/Crim in Stereo - St. Thomas Curch, Rahway NJ - 11-13-04
 

xOne Wayx - Best band ever. Opened and closed with the same song (GENERIC HARDCORE SONG TWICE IN ONE SET) Covered 7 Seconds - Young Till I Die.

Scream Hello! - Awesome Pop-Punk/Indie band, played alot better than the last time I saw them. I wish they played their 7 Seconds covers.

I skipped some crappy band to buy the Casey Jones split with Traitor.

Marathon - Awesome, awesome band. Lead singer was very....well crazy like he was on meth. New tunes sound awesome.

Crime in Stereo - A lot better than last time I saw them, they gained a fan base since then too.

Ensign - Gorrila Biscuits cover, good set list. Played more off of Direction of Things to Come than I expected. Dove on top of people during Never Give In

D[SIZE=2]amn that sounds like a kickass show.[/SIZE]

Oh yeah, Bill wore an Ensign shirt and dedicated every song to Ensign. I have most of their setlist downloaded. Gen Hxc Song and Check Mate are their best songs.

Gen. Hxc Song
We Go to Shows
Berlin Wall
Negative Feedback
Hamster
Straight Edge Turkey
Some new song I don't know
The Metal Song
Some new song I don't know
Check Mate
Gen. Hxc Song

Marathon is a good band do they tour in canada ever?

Unpaid Debt, Midtown, MXPX-20th October 2004
RoundHouse New South Wales Uni, Sydney

UNPAID DEBT-Unpiad debt were up first it a very impressive set i thought even tho not much people got into it one of the best punk bands in Australia i reakon they played a very good set.

Midtown-These dude really got the crowd going the bassist went ape**** so did the crowd best band on the night i reackon

MXPX-Good set i didnt know much songs since i only went to see midtown and i dont really like MXPX anyway got the crowd going and i ended up deaf by a little punk girl screaming the lyrics in my ear.

only $43.60AUD

Thursday 11th November, Rockers Live, Taunton. (this was the show i organised etc)

Vertigo - first band on, not bad but crowd reaction was poor, and they didn't really look into it.

Andy Fiction - [SIZE=2]f[/SIZE]ucking AWESOME band, have loved these guys since the first time i saw them and they're pretty good friends of mine, so i got them to play. excellently fast and furious 'humanitarian hardcore punk', check out [url]www.purevolume.com/andyfiction[/url] for some of their new songs!

Weapons Of Brass Destruction - again, wickedly amazing skacore band, also pretty good friends of mine. this was the second from last night of their tour, and it ****in went off! our tiny local venue was packed to the brim, and had the first ever circle pit in there! too bad the people who own the venue are old and fat and think skanking is violent so stand RIGHT in the middle of the crowd and hold people away from each other. they even kicked my friend out for skanking with his girlfriend! but WoBD played a ****ing tight set, played their usual 45 min set in half an hour so the songs were hyper fast and energetic, just relentless dancing!

my band were supposed to be playing (not sounding up my own [SIZE=2]a[/SIZE]ss but about 50% of the people in the venue were there for us, as the majority of people there were from my college!), but our trombonist and drummer had a college concert on the same night. they told us they'd be free by 9.30 which would have meant we could play, but they didn't [COLOR=White]f[/COLOR]ucking turn up til 10.15 so we didn't have time. anyway yeah, it was an awesome night, WoBD slept at my house afterwards, we stayed up until the early hours of the morning just drinking the night away, they're such a [COLOR=White]fuc[/COLOR]king laugh it was wicked!

[QUOTE=sketchyjoe]Sidekick were next. They took awhile to get going but they played well. Their songs were a lot simpler than Nagatha Krusti's but they played a lot tighter. The highpoint of their set was when they got some of the 4ft Fingers guys on stage and covered Take 'Em All. I seemed to be the only person there who knew the song. For their last song the got some other guy on stage to sing "Breaking The Law" 8.5/10

4ft Fingers played well. I didn't really know any of their songs but my favourite one was some ska song they played. I still can't mosh because of my shoulder which pissed me off as the pit looked great fun. The only reason they score lower than Sidekick is that they didn't play any **** Sparrer covers. 8/10[/QUOTE]

i saw them aswell, was on the guestlist for the show :cool:

[/B]Tuesday, October 19, 2004 The Blood Brothers/Against Me!/True North

Venue - Logan Square, Chicago

True North - Gainesville band that opened the show. Played a very short set that seriously lacked the energy of the other bands. After four songs and 3 lectures on the importance of voting, they surrendered the stage to The Blood Brothers.

The Blood Brothers - Definitely the best set of the night. Although most of the show was dedicated to material from the new album Crimes, they did play several songs from former albums. Highlights would include Cecilia At The Silouhette Salloon, F'ing's Greatest Hits, Beautiful Horses, and being in the front pit when Johnny dived off the stage.

Against Me! - Although not as crazy as The Blood Brothers, there was still a ton of energy in the set. It was more the type of act that would feature chanting instead of moshing and crowd surfing. They played a lot of Eternal Cowboy and Reinventing Axel Rose. Highlights include Baby, I'm An Anarchist, Walking Is Still Honest, Sink Florida Sink, Pints Of Guiness, I Still Love You Julie, and seeing Warren's beard.

Bad Religion/The Vandals/Flogging Molly - Warped

Flogging Molly - awsome stage prefomance, entertaining all the way around

The Vandals - good setlist, got the crowd into it. but everyone was bigger than me in the pit.

Bad Religion - great list, great crowd, great band.

[I]11/11 Saratoga Winners. Latham, New York.[/I]

[B]Bands: Moments in Grace, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Endicott, Alexisonfire, Hot Water Music.[/B]

[B]Moments In Grace[/B] - Didn't really like them, I dont think anyone did. Just bad stage presense, no movement at all.

[B]Planes Mistaken For Stars[/B] - They were okay, more on the metal side, but okay. The guitarist lost his shirt somewhere like when I f'ucking blinked or something.

[B]Endicott[/B] - F'ucking Amazing! I think someoen made a thread about them, and then I downloaded their album. I fell in love with them, and then to my surprise, they play! The crowd was so into this, and they were making fun of Alexisonfire so bad for being Canadian. Great band check em' out. The singer was crazy, I loved it. When the pit would open up, you would literally ride the people infront of you back.

[B]Alexisonfire[/B] - Amazing show, played great songs. They did a pretty good cover of someone in the beginning where the guitarist was on vocals. The first song was "Accidents". The part where they chant "Lets Redefine!" was so awesome, everyone was into it. My glasses fell off in the pit and I found them at the end of the set completely destroyed. Then at the end of the set they went from "Counterparts and Number Them" right into ".44 Caliber Love Letter" f'ucking awesome set.

[B]Hot Water Music[/B] - Meh. Didn't stay. Mommy was waiting, and I hate them.

[B]11/18 | Bad Religion/Rise Against | Majestice Ventura Theater[/B]

[B]From First to Last[/B]
These guys were really bad. Luckily they only played a 20 minute set, I only watched 5 of it, but it sounded terrible.

[B]Rise Against[/B]
I was equally excited to see RA as I was Bad Religion. They came on stage with great energy, starting with "1000 Good Intentions" The entire set was really good, even considering Tim was "sick as a dog" as he put it. They played all the songs I expected of them a lot from RPM a few from "The Unraveling" and about 4-5 from "Siren Song", Favorites: State of the Union: They had all the people down front going crazy, Black Masks and Gasoline: They ended their set with this song, a great song to go out with. 10/10 performance from them, and they say they are coming back to California in February.

[B]Bad Religion[/B]
The main event. They started out with "Intro/Sinister Rouge" my favorite song off "Empire". The first half of the set or so was newer stuff from "Empire" and "Process", (including "Let Them Eat War" with Tim from RA doing the rap) all good songs but they really got going during the second half. All the oldies and goodies "Generator" "Modern Man" "Stranger than Fiction" "Suffer" "21st Century Digital Boy" among many others. They walked off with the crowd screaming, to come back and play "We're All Gonna Die" among others and ended with "Sorrow". All in all a really good set, would have like a little more older stuff and some off "Gray Race" but it was a great set anyway. Also a really great crowd. Favorites: Generator, 21st Century..., Stranger than Fiction, Fu[SIZE=2]c[/SIZE]k Armageddon this is Hell
10/10 as well. One of the best shows I have been to.

Sounds so good.

DePaul University McGraw Hall Room 130 (a class room hah) - Sometime in October

The Few And The Proud (Not the marines) - Played a half of a set, a bunch of guys from a bunch of different local bands, played some rocking sXe music... lamest name ever.

Razzle Dazzle - Another Horrible band name, I saw them come out with tight jeans and cut off hair... and I was like "this is going to suck balls"... but it didn't... they were pretty good, especially for a band named Razzle Dazzle. I bought there demo it was on tape, crunk.

Double Crossed - Local straight edge hardcore, these guys rule. [url]http://www.doublecrossed.2ya.com/[/url] check it out boi!

Dead Stop - Rocking hardcore band from Belgium. Lead singer was going nuts... Covered Bad Brains and Minor Threat (In My Eyes) crowd went nuts for IME. I suggest checking these guys out if you like Black Flag or Minor Threat like 82 hardcore/punk.

86 Mentality - Covered the 4 skins. Um... They were good? Yeah.

Bad Religion,Rise Against and From First to Last 11/14/04 at The Warfield in San Francisco

FFTL:Very funny set. Not a good thing. They almost killed each other with their instruments. The only redeeming quality was I called the last song(Ride the Wings Pestilence) and called that they would do synchronized sideways headbanging

Rise Against:Brillant. I was vaguely suprised they didn't play Give It All last but who cares.

Bad Religion: The epitome of greatess. Great set list. Opened with Sinsiter Rouge closed with Sorrow. Big thing Brett was there. He isn't doing the entire tour so I go a little worried.

That BR and Rise Against show sounded mazing.

I went to see the Vandals on Friday at The Astoria in London. The place was pretty empty which was suprising as they had sold it out completely about a year and a half ago.

The God Awfuls were the first band up and played for about 25minutes. They were pretty sh!t but there was some prick who was trying to abuse them the whole time.

Then Audio Karate played who were worse and i didn't like them at all. I had to endure them for about 30minutes.

The Vandals came on and played for about an hour. They played a good set list with all the favourites including: Ape Drape, It's a Fact, Pizza Tran, Disproportioned Head, Marry me, 543210-1. They ended with I Have A Date whcih was the best song they played. Drummer Josh Freese played an amzing drum solo after Pizza Tran, anbd he must have been knackered after the set as they played very fast. Their front man was pretty funny and any between song breaks weren't dull at all.

8/10

Purified in Blood / Champion / Comeback Kid
 

[QUOTE=Jedi Jesus]Dead Stop[/QUOTE]
rad band.

Last week the champion/comeback kid tour came through norway (and brought snow, those ****s). Good ****-

PURIFIED IN BLOOD - A band from my hometown here, on the westcoast. Vegan SXE metal, and they do it better than any other band i have heard. Insane live show, tons of and ****ing TIGHT set. Wicked ****. Didn't cover Chain of Strength though, ****ers. [URL=http://www.straightedge.nu/purified]CHECK EM OUT![/URL] Wicked pit.

CHAMPION - Great band, great show. Highlights were the singalongs and the insane pileup, including the vocalist atthe way bottom and the guitarist in there somewhere.

COMEBACK KID - Cool band, insane show. The energy was way up and a lot of kids sang along, which is always rad. Highlights: every ****ing song. This was a sick show, and the pit was where it was at. Kids of every walk of punk/hardcore life united in [U]highfives and stagedives[/U] dancing! great evening.

The Peacocks + Adequate Seven + many more
 

this was the last ever gig one of the 2 main promoting companies near me did, so from the start the atmosphere was awesome + friendly.

first band on were 7 Ages. i'd seen this band before, just your average pop-punk/soft rock band. they're good at what they do, i just don't particularly like what they do!

next up were Weapons Of Brass Destruction. they played in my hometown the night before, and stayed at my house afterwards so this band put me and 2 friends on the guest list which was super cool of them, and they didn't disappoint anyone! they only formed this january, but already have an awesome EP, a hefty gigography and a large fanbase! i was hyped about seeing them again, and they pulled out all the stops to make it a kickass show. bravo, weapons

and on came Encyclopedia! i'd heard very good things about this band, they're not your average band. they're a 2 man electro-pop-punk band, so cheesy it's good (i think that's the idea anyway!). i'd heard some of their stuff on purevolume, but only stayed inside the gig for 3 of their songs, as this chick wanted me to come outside and i had to go down to the garage to get my *** some cider! but they had rave reviews from everyone i spoke to, so must've been pretty special.

Animal Urges were up next, i had never heard of this band and their name sounded lame so i wasn't expecting too much of this band, but **** me, they blew me away! straight up rock 'n' roll band, everyone in the place was ****in Jiving and Dancing and what not, it was absolutely awesome. 'If you wanna be my crazy lover say yeah!' = 'YEAAAAAAAAAH!' from everyone in the crowd!

The Peacocks! to everyone's knowledge, the Peacocks were headlining this night, as that's what it said on the flyers and stuff, but they came on second from last for some reason. still, they were absolutely awesome, (check out the songs 'Older Than Punk' + 'I Can Do A Lot For My Size'), i think punkabilly would be the best way to describe them. they had a wicked stage presence, and again, everyone in the place was dancing.

Adequate Seven have been one of my favourite bands for a long time (since we played with them last Feb), and every time i've seen them they've just got better and better. friday was no exception! they have one of the most intense live performances i've seen, and play THE tightest set ever. 'brass driven hardcore funk punk' is the best description i've heard about them, they have elements of so many different genres it's intense. everyone in the place was dancing like fools but no one cared because they were so ****ing good, i'm gonna say it again but i loved the atmosphere of this show! they had about 20 people onstage dancing, and it's not a big stage!

i'd say this show was one of the best times of my life (partly because i hooked up with a hot chick, and she decided she wanted to stay the night with me :thumb: ) but that's only one of many reasons

i HATE adequate 7 and their basss driven ****core.


funnily enough when i saw them last the peacocks were supporting, who i heard on record and thought they sucked, but were really good live.

[QUOTE=superskankinactionhero]
The Peacocks! to everyone's knowledge, the Peacocks were headlining this night, as that's what it said on the flyers and stuff, but they came on second from last for some reason. still, they were absolutely awesome, (check out the songs 'Older Than Punk' + 'I Can Do A Lot For My Size'), i think punkabilly would be the best way to describe them. they had a wicked stage presence, and again, everyone in the place was dancing.
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[QUOTE=Scabies]YOU CUNT YOU CUNT YOU CUNT YOU CUNT[/QUOTE]


they played in london a few weeks ago, i saw them :o

yeah i wouldve gone to it but i didnt have enough notice or money. i think antimaniax are playin Londooooon soon :)

Motorhead-Newport Centre
 

Missed the first band Class of Zero because I was stuck at the bar, and I only caught the end of Sepultura, there not really my cup of tea but there was a good pit of headbangers going for them.
Now Motorhead are the loudest band I have ever seen, as soon as they came on the place went wild and never stoped. It was so loud you really couldnt hear Lennys voice over the guitar and drums, which sucked. They rocked through about 15 songs, they didnt play many hits though. Ace of Spades and Overkill were saved for the encore, as well as a ballad which fitted in suprisingly well. Overall it was a great gig, I would recomended paying Lemmy and co a visit next time there near you.

Ii'm going to the london motorhead show on saturday. did you actually hear any of class of zero? what are they like?

Rivals / Walk Aside / Fiveseven / Jaws of Life / Another Breath

Rivals were great. Local band, f[size=2]u[/size]cking great. Sound kind of like Righteous Jams and other stuff of that sort. I had seen the singer at shows before. Probably the rest of them too, but the singer more notably cause he's faaaat. He is a great singer though.

Walk Aside were the least good band of the night, though they were still really good. Raw hardcore, from somewhere in Quebec.

Fiveseven were great, full of energy. Also from Quebec. Their lyrics seem kind of overdone. Stuff about unity and the scene, it gets old. But a very good performance.

I had heard some songs by Jaws of Life before, one of which they played. They were better than I expected. They're from Montreal I think.

Another Breath of course were good, maybe not as good as I expected. They had a short set, then they did an encore which was definitely the highlight of the night. First they did a cover of Carry On's Waiting On Forever, then they did New Direction by Gorilla Biscuits. Awesome.

The Briefs; Milan, Italy
 

Homoplastik-
these guys opened for the briefs. theyre a local italian band (i think) and they totally sucked. good riffs, but the lead singer was totally out of it. he would lay down on the stage and sing; the whole band was totally lifelss
2/5

The Briefs-
****ing incredible. awsome set, cool guys. probably the best live band ive ever seen. the crowd was sooooooooo bad though. they werent into the music at all and there was only like 100 people at the most there. the crowd started throwing ice at them because they were sweating so much and the drummer started throwing his drum sticks back so i got a pair of sticks. i was really impressed with the drummer and how he cansing while he plays some hard beats. best songs were poor and weird, destroy the usa, silvia, and enw shoes
5/5