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I’ve been trailing this for a while, so it’s time I got on with it and posted it.
Into the Pit: 021: Chimaira – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 05-December 2005
I only caught the second half of the first support Hatesphere‘s set. And they were pretty damned good, too. Good old-school thrash, really – from a band that clearly loved what they were doing, and that enthusiasm rubbed off on the crowd. The lead singer provided the quotes of the night, too: “Here’s a song […]
/DJ/Stormblast/005/01-December 2005
An interesting night, last night. Stormblast was fantastic fun with a great turnout and many amusingly pissed metallers. (I am kinda glad the viking drinking horns were forgotten, though)
/DJ/Stormblast/004/24-November 2005
The fourth night of Stormblast wasn’t too bad, though, considering we lost a number of our usual audience to a gig at D’n’R Live.
Into the Pit: 020: My Dying Bride – Live at Rios, Bradford – 19-November 2005
Support act Novembre (I missed first band The Prophecy) were ok, and evidently loved by a good proportion of the crowd, but not really to my taste. Standard doom, really, with a lot of each track on a DAT – made all the more obvious by their brave cover of Stripped. Full marks for effort, […]
/DJ/Stormblast/003/17-November 2005
The third night of Stormblast saw back to the core duo, as many nights were. This might have been the night where Viking drinking horns made their first appearance….
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.
/DJ/Stormblast/002/10-November 2005
The second night of Stormblast introduced our first – of many – guest DJs over the few years that the night ran. We always had a policy of suggestions for songs we should play – extreme metal was, and still is, an extraordinarily broad church – and so having other DJs in as we needed, […]
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.
/DJ/Stormblast/001/03-November 2005
For the first eighteen months of tcf, it was a bit of a shotgun marriage between industrial and (ever-extreme) metal.
/DJ/tcf/v3/001/01-Nov 2005
The third and longest phase of tcf began here, as my previous night split into two. tcf very much changed after this point, as we began to explore the outer realms of industrial that bit more.
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 […]
/DJ/tcf/v2/065/25-Oct 2005
The second phase of tcf ended at this point, as I was unexpectedly offered the chance to take over Thursdays at The Nelson, too – which resulted in the metal that I was playing shifting to Stormblast.
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 […]
DJ: Guest: 008: Darkside – 22-September 2005
The turnout was way higher than I had expected, to be totally honest, which was great. The bands went down well, despite a somewhat ropey sound – especially for 3ulogy, whose set seemed an experimental one and also somewhat subdued. Although their power live still far outstrips anything they have recorded thus far. Neon Zoo […]
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 […]
/DJ/tcf/v1/027/01-Aug 2005
Bringing down the curtain on the first run of tcf, and ending my ties with Huddersfield – particularly as the West Riding closed not that much longer after I left.
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!
DJ: Guest: 007: Black Sheep – 17-July 2005
Black Sheep last night was loads of fun. A busy night, and it was really warm in that small club.