Into the Pit: 019: Ultraviolence – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 12-November 2005
The gig last night was interesting. The support acts were both great, while the headliner was on autopilot – and mightily pissed.
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: 018: Rico – Live at Academy 3 Manchester – 04-November 2005
I’ve been waiting patiently for over six years for another chance to see Rico live (at Reading in ’99), so to say I was looking forward to it was something of an understatement.
Into the Pit: 017: KMFDM – Live in Nottingham – 26-October 2005
According to the tickets/info, doors were at 1930. No-one appeared to have bothered to told the bands, as we eventually were let in at five to nine. When the tickets have cost £14.50 each, in my mind that is taking the piss. First band were on sharpish, unsurprisingly – although I think most people in […]
Into the Pit: 016: 65daysofstatic – Live at Fuzz Club Sheffield – 13-October 2005
First band on were The Mirimar Disaster, a local band fronted by well-known local metal DJ Stocky. A good crowd for a still small band, and they benefitted strongly from the powerful sound set-up. A disparate mix of metal stylings, but very much at the avant garde end of things – we counted something like […]
Memory of a Festival: 002: Infest 2005
OK, so where do we start? Well, overall, this year’s Infest has been fantastic fun. As always, it is so much more than the bands – the friendly atmosphere and time to catch up with friends ensure that. But the bands are generally well worth seeing. Didn’t catch all of them this year, and not […]
Into the Pit: 015: Skinny Puppy – Live in Manchester – 08-August 2005
First, the bad points. Due to what appeared to be perhaps a lower turnout than expected, the gig got bumped from Academy 2 (the MDH) to Academy 3 (the Hop’n’Grape). So it was a little toasty. No support, either. Which made the next bit all the more annoying – a curfew at 2300, the band […]
Into the Pit: 014: Gotherham – Live at No.10 Rotherham – 23-July 2005
Yesterday evening was one where things did appear to go very right. The Gotherham gig was great, for all of the time that we could stay – apologies to Ryk and people for not being able to stick around, I had other commitments too!
Into the Pit: 013: Nine Inch Nails – Live at Apollo Manchester – 10-July 2005
On a hot and sticky night like last night, the Manchester Apollo is not among the list of places that I would rather normally be. But hey, this is different. I’ve waited too long, been jinxed too many times.
Into the Pit: 012: 3ulogy – Live at The Grapes Sheffield – 13-June 2005
Last night’s gig at the Grapes was certainly interesting, and in some respects something of an eye-opener. Not a bad turnout, either, for a Monday night gig.
Into the Pit: 011: Mortiis – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 23-April 2005
As was to be expected, this was something of an odd night gig-wise. Four bands on, due to one reason or another first (local-ish) band The Nothing didn’t appear, so it was left to Panic DHH to open proceedings. And did they.
Into the Pit: 010: Queen Adreena – Live at Rock City Nottingham – 17-March 2005
It was somewhat surprising to recall, on the way to Nottingham, that it is nearly five years since I first (and last) saw Queen Adreena live, at the ill-fated Lost Weekend back in July 2000. Back then, they had not long since emerged from the long-dead ashes of Daisy Chainsaw, with one album (Taxidermy) only […]
Into the Pit: 009: Mastodon – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 14-February 2005
Last night was otherwise Mastodon at Corp. Never before have a band had a more apt website name (mastodonrocks.com). Buoyed on by a packed (and enthusiastic) crowd, they seemed to start sluggishly with the mammoth 14-minute epic that is Hearts Alive, sounding somewhat muddy, but as it came to an end everything just seemed to […]
Into the Pit: 008: Rammstein – Live at Arena Nottingham – 07-February 2005
Support act Apocalyptica were something of a surprise – somehow having not managed to hear them before, they were fantastic. Highlight – christ, where do I start? Seek and Destroy was incredible, the intro spiel to Bittersweet was hilarious (lets just say he wasn’t too complimentary about the vocalists on the track – Ville from […]
Into the Pit: 007: Pop Will Eat Itself – Live in Birmingham – 22-January 2005
Can [we] Dig It? Hell yeah!
Into the Pit: 006: Machines – Live at The Grapes Sheffield – 13-January 2005
…Machines turned out to be yet another fantastic local band. Five, maybe six tracks in 45 minutes. Tool influenced, but not slavishly.
Into the Pit: 005: Mad Capsule Markets – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 11-December 2004
Three hugely mismatched bands, a packed Corporation and a mental crowd. We need more gigs like that in Sheffield.
Into the Pit: 004: Rammstein – Live at T-Mobile Arena Prague – 03-December 2004
Getting to the gig was no real problem – outside our hotel ran three tram routes – and amazingly enough, one route ran direct to the T-Mobile Arena! The venue is huge – the national ice hockey arena, no less – so by the time we got there most of the 10,000 people were already […]
Into the Pit: 003: Killing Miranda – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 28-November 2004
First act Dyonisis were a pleasant surprise – two female vocalists, a guitarist and bassist – with various electronics and beats on a backing track. Crippled by what was frankly an appalling sound set-up, there were moments when they really did sound good, especially the acappella track. A demo is coming soon apparently (as is […]
Into the Pit: 002: Assemblage 23 – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 25-October 2004
Run Level Zero were…well, a bit dull really. To start with they very much reminded me of Aslan Faction, trying far too hard to ape bands like :wumpscut:, but with far less aggression and lacking in the killer songs to back it up. To be fair to them, the last couple of tracks did improve […]
Into the Pit: 001: Skinny Puppy – The Forum – 19-July 2004
Last night lived up to all its billing and far, far more: by general agreement the best gig most of us had ever been to.