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Last night Jonesy and I went to see Death in Vegas live at the Bristol Academy, Bristol, UK. Here is my review of the gig: We ran into Richard Fearless near a cashpoint before the gig, but were cool enough not to ask for his autograph :) The opening act Electralane were suprisingly good, a bit more "rocky" and less classical than reviews online had lead me to believe. The distorted guitars and droning synths sat well with Death in Vegas' new sound and I can't think of a more appropriate opening band. As soon as one of DIV's tracks came on, the crowd pressed forward and began cheering when they came on stage. There were eight or nine of them in total, plus a sound engineer on stage most of the time. I think there were five people playing guitar for some tracks- I was wondering how they'd reproduce those rich, layered, distorted guitar tracks live... Richard Fearless took a fairly backseat roll, occasionally playing bass guitar or behind the decks, but often just getting the cloud to clap or watching the visualisations. The visualisations were excellent, I had anticipated something good, with Fearless' reputation, but the choice of imagery and synching to the music were superb. For one of the obviously indian inspired tracks had the famous "Dance of Vishnu" performed by women in leather, another trippy 70's psychadelic rock had stock footage of south american indians and various tribal peoples getting out of their head on a peace pipe type device, probably smoking salvia. The band played mostly Scorpio Rising tracks, with a few from the contino sessions thrown in as well as 1 or 2 improv/new tracks. Perhaps most suprisingly was mid set, they played a leftfield track circa rhythm and stealth. I wouldn't of believed this, but as I turned sidewards to tell my mate it sounded like leftfield He shouted "This is leftfield?!" And I realised it was. The only possible criticism was they didn't play "Dirt" or "Rocco" from Dead Elvis and some of the stuff seemed to rely too heavily on pre |
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heavily on pre recorded stuff. There was what sounded like a violin and a cello on different tracks, yet neither were present on stage... unless the keyboard player was particularly talented I think that fearless was probably playing it cued up somewhere. It didn't sound like a keyboard, violins are notoriously hard to synthesise and I used to play one so I can tell the sound apart. However, none of this really detracted from the gig and it was a good time. The crowd were all really up for it, there were no fights and everyone seemed to really enjoy it. Overall: 9/10 |
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I second that. My expectations weren't that high but they proved to be a great live act. Plus having visuals is a little more interesting than watching a load of nerdy blokes, and believe me, they were nerdy looking. My only complaint was the fat cunt who headbutted my upper lip and kept landing on my feet. |
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The woman's legs were appropriate visuals for "hands around my throat" towards the end of the set as was the clips from the biker film "Scorpio Rising". My chest's hurting from where my mate headbutted in the moshpit, but it was all in good spirit. Amusingly the bouncers did the opposite of what they do with crowd surfers, rather than trying to pull a guy over the barriedr, they pushed him back on top of me. I was holding this 16 stone huge bloke and managed to throw him over the barrier. I suspect someone must of put crack in my drink as I have no idea how I managed to do that without breaking my back. |
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I listened to The Contino Sessions for the first time in ages yesterday and have to say I didn't like half the tracks. Tracks 1,3,4,5 and 7 are very cool though. I really hate track 8 with willia reid, total boredom. I lent the first album to a mate and am waiting to get it back as I haven't heard that in ages either. I definitely think The Contino Sessions, XTRMNTR and Bow Down To The Exit Sign are a trilogy, they've all got lots in common (apart from the fact that David Holmes, Bobby Gillespie and Richard Fearless (?) are on all of them). They're all very dark and powerful albums. |
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agree with the visuals thing.... very good. Nice review lads, but they just didn´t do it for me in Dublin. (being seated didn´t help!) |
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Haven't heard "Bow Down To The Exit Sign" which band/artist is that by? The new album is great, I thoroughly recommend it. I agree that there are some weak tracks on Contino sessions. They played track 3 (Morse?) at the gig mixed with the bass part of leather from the new album at the gig last night. Good combo... |
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Well you can't just sit down lad. "Take yer pardner by the hand". |
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david home is a shit DJ... nice work on Lets get killed though, but FUCKING crap DJ... NO SPARK |
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