Sin's shows 2016
Didn't get to as many as I wanted to this year but they were all pretty good anyway. |
| 1 |  | Delta Sleep
Twin Galaxies
7/10. Opened for 2+3, these guys are really solid mathy post-hardcore. Lots of energy and overall a great way to start the night. |
| 2 |  | mewithoutYou
Pale Horses
10/10. Jesus christ these guys put on a great live show. Aaron is possibly the best frontman I have ever seen, no shitty talking between songs, just pouring all their emotion and energy into the performance. Great mix of their older tracks and newer tracks. Whole crowd went nuts when they played January 1979. Stellar stuff. |
| 3 |  | The World Is a Beautiful Place...
Harmlessness
8/10. They were great, lots of emotion and atmosphere. Played all their best tracks basically and a surprising amount of old stuff. Only complaint would be that the vocals were a bit quiet and their set was slightly too long in the end, but a really cathartic set. |
| 4 |  | Shonen Knife
Pretty Little Baka Guy
9/10. Such an important (and underrated) group, these gals kicked some serious arse. Way more energy and fun than they had any right to be at their age. Would have been 10/10 if the guy in front of me wasn't drunk af and constantly falling over in front of me. Some shitty local bands openeed they kinda sucked tbh. |
| 5 |  | Suuns
Hold/Still
9/10. Really fantastic, they were playing in a small dark basement and it really suited their sound. Mostly played tracks from their latest album (not complaining as it's their best yet), crowd was great too. Some local band playing this really trippy dark post-punk stuff opened who were actually ok but their sound didn't really fit the venue as it sounded like the vocalist was doing black metal screams at times. |
| 6 |  | Woahnows
Understanding and Everything Else
6/10. Opening for 8. Not bad, they were fun and lively and pretty funny between songs. Short set, thier original tracks were decent but they did a pretty cool cover of Taking Back Sunday's 'Cute Without the E'. |
| 7 |  | Apologies, I Have None
Pharmacie
7/10. Support for 8. Good set, vocalist put in a pretty good performance, wish they'd have played 60 Miles though. |
| 8 |  | The Smith Street Band
Throw Me in the River
9/10. Wil is a fucking dude. Not much more to say really, he had a knee problem so he was sitting on a bar stool getting more and more wasted trying to make it through the songs which was pretty entertaining. Played some new tracks too which were dope. |
| 9 |  | Swans
The Glowing Man
8/10. Subtracting one point for the venue being douches and not putting the right start time on the tickets causing me to miss Anna von Hausswolff's set which is what i bought the tickets for in the first place. |
| 10 |  | Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation
Mirage
10/10. Support for 11. Probably the best support group I've ever seen. It's really something to hear a band live before you hear their albums and these guys were jawdropping, hopefully gonna catch them next year too. |
| 11 |  | Goat
Requiem
9/10. These guys do one hell of a show, their material is so much better live than recorded, it's like a giant pagan ritual. Run to Your Mama is like 10x more epic live. Also i got tickets to this for free I wasn't even gonna go before so pretty good night. |
| 12 |  | ZelooperZ
Bothic
5/10. Support for 13. Never heard this guy before, he was pretty run of the mill. He was trying to hype the crowd up but it was like doing nothing. he had one or two good tracks though. |
| 13 |  | Danny Brown
Atrocity Exhibition
8/10. Pretty damn great, went through his discography chronologically in terms of setlist. Best tracks were mostly from Old, which I was expecting. Crowd was pretty great too. |
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