/Countdown/2005/Gigs
No order for these, as it has been something of a top year for gigs and trying to pick the best one has been impossible…
Tag: live
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 […]
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, […]
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.
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 […]