Gigs and Music Events

Winnebago Deal were very good. Wasn't sure about the Swedish band - kinda OK but they couldn't decide whether they were an 80s rock band or whether they were a metal band.

First Band on - the ones you must have seen - were Astrohenge. Utterly insane. My jaw was dropped, the drummer was about as quick as I have ever seen, fuck knows what the keyboard player was doing, and twin metal guitars out front was ace. It was about 30 mins into their set before it kinda registered that they didn't have a singer... I was so entranced by their aural assault I didn't notice. I do not envy any band who has to go on after them, ever.

The Swedish band was pretty much why I left - their sound check was uninspiring and I couldn't really face the nomansland between Astrohenge finishing and Winnebago Deal starting, hence why I went home.

I would say that was probably the tamest Astrohenge show I've ever seen. No one in the crowd received oral sex during their set, there was no crowd surfing, nothing got damaged and no one got hurt. Boooooooooooo.

If you like them it might be worth heading up to the Unicorn in Camden to see Art of Burning Water on the 24th. free gig and they're pretty hardcore.

Loads of good gigs coming up before Christmas... Telescopes (nov 27) and then Truman's water a few weeks later at Herne Hill Half Moon. and then... Gnod + One Unique Signal + Hey Colossus mid December.... yay!

Do I know you? I go to a lot of shows within the AOBW/AH/Rip This Joint/Li Grand Zombi/Naked Claw scenes; I saw the name and thought you might be have been Shaziyah, but the location is wrong.