8 Days of Evil
Look – it’s part 2 of the Thrash Hits video reports from SpineFeast 2009. Watch it for stories about vomit, greed and outer space. Part 3 up….tomorrow? WHO KNOWS. Otherwise – I’ve been busy as a Russell Brand’s ballsack. Let’s take a look at the recent schedule:
Thursday 12 Feb: Romeo Must Die and The Defiled at a sparsely-attended Camden Rock Bar. The Defiled’s equipment kept breaking, Romeo Must Die were tight as hell, and hardly anyone was there to see it. Boo.
Saturday 14 Feb: Defenders of the Faith tour hit Brixton, headlined by the getting-so-many-column-inches-in-the-metal-blogosphere-it-stupid Lamb of God. For reasons that I’ve never understood, I’ve never been able to see an entire Lamb Of God set before. There’s always been some cocking reason stopping me – when they’ve played gigs in London, I’ve been out of town. When they were playing at festivals I’d been to, there was some no-mark band or another I had to interview at the exact moment they were playing. Which is why I was beyond super-stoked to see them bludgen Brixton Academy like a redneck wailing on his sister.
Sunday 15 Feb: The Big One – okay, so it technically wasn’t bigger than the Lamb Of God show under any criteria you care to name – but it was the first ever solo-promoted show that myself, and my HypnoCop compatriot, Ben, put on without outsiders. Despite a few monumental cock-ups (like the soundman rolling up 45 minutes late, Dallas, Strangeways and Mills’n'Ware were all fantastic. We even made a modest profit (of which all was given to the bands). Roll on the first Thrash Hits night….
Wednesday 18 Feb: Gama Bomb, Cauldron and Mutant at the Old Blue Last. Thrash party ahoy!
Thurdays 19 Feb: Bossman Raz’s birthday at the Phoenix, followed by heavy metal bowling c/o the Children of Bodom aftershow at Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes. The Kingpin Private Suite no less.
Saturday 21 and Sunday 23 Feb: Hellfire Festival at the Islington Academy. Some good bands, some bad bands, Warrior Soul without a frontman, anda distinct lack of moshpits. I FEEL A FEATURE COMING ON.
Monday 23 Feb: Spinnerette interview and gig, once again at the Islington Academy.
And I’ve still got two more nights out on the trot after tonight. Can someone rewind time please? I need to find a few more minutes from somewhere to write the live reviews for half of these damn things up…
