Into the Pit: 058: The Dillinger Escape Plan – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 12-February 2008
Note: An edited version of this review appeared in Alternative Magazine Issue 09
Category: /Into the Pit
I’ve been writing live reviews as far back as I’ve been writing about music – indeed my very first was covering downset. for ROAR (the King’s College London Student Newspaper) back in Autumn 1996.
The live reviews here go back to about 2003, and while most were first posted here, some others appeared in the (short-lived) Alternative Magazine, others on Black Harvest, Connexion Bizarre and even once on the BBC website. This archive is every live review I’ve written between 2003 and the present day.
The title of this section comes from a track on Testament’s album The New Order.
Into the Pit: 057: Die Krupps – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 02-February 2008
Due to all kinds of issues with getting across the pennines (both Snake and Woodhead were shut on Saturday afternoon), friends staying with us weren’t at ours ’til six, and with food to eat and then the need to get ready before heading out, we almost totally missed Uberbyte.
Into the Pit: 056: Autoclav 1.1 – Live at The Chapel Huddersfield – 18-January 2008
It was really bloody strange seeing prot0type live in my home town.
Into the Pit: 055: Gogol Bordello – Live at the Leadmill Sheffield – 18-December 2007
I’m still not sure how much I like the Leadmill as a gig venue. While the layout is great – a wide stage, and a good sound system that allows for just about everyone to see the gig – it never feels quite right. So it was a good thing that in the main, the […]
Into the Pit: 054: VNV Nation – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 15-December 2007
Getting in a little late, I missed the beginning of Kloq, but got to see the majority of a set I had been looking forward to seeing.
Into the Pit: 053: theSTART – Live at Casbah Sheffield – 12-December 2007
Yet another band that I have been waiting years to see, first we had to endure two local bands that were really not good. The first were very-much Blondie influenced (to the point of playing a cover of Call Me), while the second were scratchy punk-pop where the silence between each song was probably longer […]
Into the Pit: 052: The Young Gods – Live at Roadhouse Manchester – 06-December 2007
First, I should mention the support band. A band from the south-west called Undercut, who were really rather good. Not at all the type of band I would expect to see supporting a band like TYG, but maybe that was half the fun. A five-piece alternative rock band, with passing nods in the music to […]
Into the Pit: 051: The Birthday Massacre – Live at Satan’s Hollow Manchester – 25-October 2007
Like many other gigs of late, I was left feeling rather old again after this one. Again the attendance was heartening – it was a queue pretty much ’round the block before it opened – with many, many very dedicated fans of the headliners.
Into the Pit: 050: [:SITD:] – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 21-October 2007
[Note: An edited version of this review appeared in Alternative Magazine Issue 08]
Into the Pit: 049: Pitchshifter – Live at Rock City. Nottingham – 13-October 2007
So, Pitchshifter. To say I’m familiar with the band’s output and their live performances would be understating it a little: I’ve been following them since first discovering Triad years ago on a John Peel show (probably sometime around ’94/’95), and then saw them live 13 times between ’96 and ’02 (I never saw the “last” […]
Into the Pit: 048: Angelspit – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 07-October 2007
Last night’s gig was a pretty strange one.
Into the Pit: 047: Seabound – Live at Corporation Sheffield 30-September 2007
Last night was an interesting gig. The first of the long list of upcoming gigs I am intending on attending, and it was a cracking way to start.
Memory of a Festival: 004: Infest 2007
So where exactly to start? This year marks of course ten years of Infest, a festival that has changed in subtle ways over the years. This one was my eighth, and it was fun the other week unearthing all the memories of past events before I forgot them forever. And as always, this year brought […]
Into the Pit: 046: Nitzer Ebb – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 03-August 2007
Going to see a band from your past, that you never got to see the first time around, is always perhaps something of a risk.
Into the Pit: 045: Front Line Assembly – Live in Manchester – 07-July 2007
Last night, in the main, rocked. I got to see probably my favourite band of all for a second time within a year, I got to spend some time catching up with a whole load of people I haven’t seen an awful lot of recently, and the weather was even pretty good for the first […]
Into the Pit: 044: Boris – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 29-June 2007
Last night saw me head to Corporation as planned to see Boris. I didn’t bother with the support bands, but Boris themselves were really worth the effort. Their output has shifted across countless styles over the years, but in the main we were treated to the more psychedelic, acid-fried rock from Pink, some of the […]
Into the Pit: 043: Grendel – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 23-June 2007
So while 177,000 people get drenched and covered in mud at some small festival down in the southwest, a number of us were at the Grendel gig at Corp last night. And let’s be honest, we probably came out just as drenched as the festival-goers – but with sweat. With pre-sales being a little sluggish, […]
Into the Pit: 042: 3ulogy – Live at The Nelson Sheffield – 22-June 2007
Last night was the second 3ulogy gig in three weeks in Sheffield, supported this time by the Leicester-based noise act DirtyK.
Into the Pit: 041: 3ulogy – Live at The Grapes Sheffield – 01-June 2007
This was my first opportunity to see 3ulogy live for quite some time. Before them, though, it was a couple of support acts, who had been added to the bill at short notice after the dropping out of both Nightmoves and Karmanaut, neither of which I was too keen on anyway.
Into the Pit: 040: Noizetek – Live at The Phoenix Manchester – 13-April 2007
Last night was a trip to Manchester for Noizetek. And it certainly lived up to the name – my ears are still ringing now. Next time, I’ll actually remember my earplugs.