A brief trip to the Junction on the day before my moment of glory at the University and the [skip:module fair]. It marks the first time I've seen Geisha this year, and it won't be the last! They have just finished a short tour and although they seem a little bit tired they still smash out yet another storming Geisha set.
For some reason, the bands are playing on the opposite side of the bar to the one they usually play on. The PA stays wehere it is however and so we have the strange effect of hearing the singers 'next to' the music. I am standing right by one of the PA speakers and while my left ear fills with tortured screams my right is bleeding from the noise.
It's a good sort of bleeding.
About half way through the set Geisha play their new Geisha meets the Mars Volta meets Pink Floyd and screams (tm) song, which I love, it has just the right balance of rock grooves, punk shouting, metal screaming and prog wibbling. I pray this song is on the forthcoming album, or I'll have to start bootlegging gigs!
Tonight the Junction plays host to two American bands. The first of these features a whirling dervish of a drummer, a big scarey man with a beard and a timid bass player. The guitarist has a strange setup of a Marshall JCM 800 behind him and a Marshall JCM 2000 that sits behind the bass player. You want quieter guitars? No problem, I'll just uses the one amp for 'quiet' bits. The 2000 produces a nice bright lead sound in contrast to the 800's rougher distortion Together, they are a powerhouse of metal noise. Apart from the odd dramatic slo-metal moment, Coliseum (sic) only have two settings: furious fast thrash metal and OFF. In the 'off' bits we are treated to soliloquies about the terrible state of America today and how we have to stop kissing Bush's ass coz our country is looking pretty stupid although it's great. The songs? Well at times it's pretty cool - fast driving loud shouting. Towards the end of the set I start to get a bit distracted at the sameness of it all though.
Following this, just in case anybody can still hear we have more rants from the singer of Lords and more fast metal. This guy had to go and see the dentist and it cost me twelve of your English Pounds! This country is great! In America it would have cost me 400 bucks. In ENGLAND it would cost me 200 quid you git...
I make my excuses and leave. Not because I'm not enjoying it, you understand, just that I have to get up in the morning, I have WORK to do. It will be hard enough being deaf.
