so then, the bradford gig

[pete gusher]

1) the band keep sounding better and better
2) i didnt "get" the support act thing. it just.... bored me
3) they played the best version of sonic shake ive ever heard
4) the backing singer girl is the most amazing girl ive ever seen, ever
5) i found out that little hell is the face that i see at every single ginger gig that i go to
6) the body art people should have been on for longer. it just kinda seemed to finish before it got going

[velvetpresley]

1) the band keep sounding better and better
2) i didnt "get" the support act thing. it just.... bored me
3) they played the best version of sonic shake ive ever heard
4) the backing singer girl is the most amazing girl ive ever seen, ever
5) i found out that little hell is the face that i see at every single ginger gig that i go to
6) the body art people should have been on for longer. it just kinda seemed to finish before it got going

1 thru 6;

It were fecking ace. The whole thing for me.

"hehe, then, we ended up in the nightclub, and I puked everywhere! What did you do, Matt?"

"Oh, I watched a massive cult rock band decend into insanity, then I watched a bloke kebab himself, and suspend a midget from the roof, then I witnessed probably the greatest Rock and Roll act in the wordl"

"Right Matt. We're going to stop talking to you now."

[Cell]

Well I was super impressed. Ginger promised a circus and that's what we got. True the man on a kebab routine was a little slow. They could have at least blown the freaking dwarf up at the end of the set.

I'm with VP on the Sonic Shake, was rockin', and he cover of Elvis Costello's Pump it up, was even better than the Buckcherry version.

Top job over all though they have a certain something about the whole band, nice to see Coney, but bugger me hasn't Jase Edward grown up a little I was hoping they'd do an old Wolfsbane song just for the laugh lol. Can't wait for next time !!!!!!!

[pete gusher]

im a huge elvis costello fan, so everytime i hear that pump it up cover, i get a little sexually excited

[Col]

Lemo

Do you mean Tim Smith, Ginger and Random (2)?

[pete gusher]

yeah. i wish i could say something good about it but.... i cant

[Col]

shite, that's a shame. Been bulling this one up a bit.

[pete gusher]

and ive just realised that backing singer is vix fuzzbox!
shes looking younger than me, and im only just old enough to remember fuzzbox!

[kris]

Went to the Garage gig in January and thought that it was one of the best rock acts ive ever seen live but the Bradford gig was even better.
And thats saying something

Wolverhampton and Nottingham here we come

[wopper]

Gotta Say last night was feckin' superb (the next statement does not relate to the music) if the Wildhearts were The Ramones, performance wise, then Sonic Circus is FECKIN' Rush, the musicianship was outstanding especially Jase Edwards on "My Friend The Enemy". Roll on Tuesday & Liverpool.

Velv can I have a copy of your photos from last night please?

Wopper

[wopper]

Knew I recognised that backing singer, Fuzzbox top act

[velvetpresley]

Velv can I have a copy of your photos from last night please?

Wopper

I'll link to them on my website at some point this evening. www.velvetpresley.co.uk

[Butchers Dustbin]

Il give my 2pence worth, im sure il knock a few noses out of joint...but hey

Overall verdict, kick ass gig - im sure all there will admit the atmosphere was 100% electric.....

1st support band, utter arse, never seen such a load of cobblers............and i must say the worst support band iv ever seen.....

freak show......... nuff said

I got the feeling Bradford crowd wasn’t really up for it...not much movement at the start seemed a bit lame, u could see the band struggling and looking a bit worried as to what they were doing wrong, but by the end of the gig, we were eating out of their hands...

what a superb band though, top musicianship all round.....apart from conny bloom, he fucked me off.....he just had that poe faced look all night, sulking like a kid cos he didn’t have the usual stage space that he has...so he couldn’t do his malmsteen rip off swing guitar round his neck that he likes to do
moving along, what the fuck was that beat box gangster rap interlude that that backing singer did all about, fuck me I was cringing and I think the rest of the band was too, so out of place, be like watching Mozart’s 5th concerto and suddenly bringing on a didgeridoo....just didn’t work.

And i think rios summed up how shit it really is by a) the sound engineer not bein on the ball and havin to have a band start a song again cos he wasnt sein what was goin on, and havin the worlds most filthy microphone that smelt like johns arse....

Top gig, the strength of that band gives me very little hope of the wildhearts returning in the near future
P.s any1 who got pics will they post em please?! cheers!

[velvetpresley]

Review and photos - http://www.velvetpresley.co.uk/

[Thunarr]

Huh. There's always one, isn't there?

I'm just wondering if Butchers Dustbin was at the same gig as me. I think the difference might have been, at least partially, that I was down at the front enjoying myself, while he was probably at the bar, being somewhat pretentious (just going by what he wrote, that is).

I thought the rap thing was very much in the spirit of the whole Sonic Circus idea. It's a collective of musicians that are there because they are good at what they do, and allows them to do what they do without being restricted by narrow genre restrictions.

The Bradford crowd weren't up for it early on, eh? So cheering every song like a long lost friend isn't being up for it? As for Conny sulking, dear old BD obviously couldn't see the smile (yes, SMILE!) that was on his face ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE GIG, except for when he was concentrating the solos. Then again, like I said, he was probably at the bar acting like some sort of pretentious music journalist (remember that character from Steve Wright In The Afternoon?).

Now, I actually spoke to Conny after the gig (top bloke, by the way), and he'd really enjoyed the gig, but was starving.

Now, the Cardiacs... they were... interesting. If the crowd hadn't been up for it, there would have been a general exodus to the bar. There wasn't one. The lack of number of people down at the front was probably down to the fact that most of the audience hadn't got there by the time they came on (for that you can probably at least partially blame a serious accident around Junction 24 on the M62, not 20 minutes drive from the venue - the bands got stuck in it too). Admittedly, they did take a little getting into, but there was certainly something hypnotic about what they were doing.

KInd of reminded me of Tenacious D.

Rios is shit... let's see... the sound was crystal clear (which isn't something you can say about places like The Leadmill in Sheffield, or even the St George's Hall in Bradford or the NIA down in Birmingham). The only gig venue I've been to with better sound was the late, lamented Town & Country Club.

So maybe BD wasn't at the bar after all... must have been in the toilets, since he certainly seems to have had his head up his arse for most of that gig.

T