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When Heroes Go Down
Mar. 17th, 2009 01:14 pmI can't remember the last time I walked out of a gig. I remember quite a few that I should have walked out of, but didn't... hanging on 'til the usually bitter end in the hope that the band would get it together during the next song & it would be the magical experience I'd hoped for. It never happened. It never happens.
So I walked out about halfway through The Church's gig on Sunday night at the Factory, because I knew it wouldn't get any better. Right from the shambolic start of Tantalised, Marty Willson Piper, Steve Kilbey, Peter Koppes & Tim Powles looked like ensuring the support bands were the highlight of the evening. We started the gig at the front, but the sound was waaay too guitar heavy & the vocals almost non-existent, so moved back about 2/3s. Okay, now we could hear Kilbey, but not the others & Marty's guitar was still TOO F@#KING LOUD!!!! Which ordinarily wouldn't be a problem, except that he patently wasn't on top of his game & it just crapped all over the band's usual, languid precision. And so, off we went.
There's never been an official 'Live' album from these guys & on the strength of that gig, there won't be any time soon...
I'll still buy the new album & see them next time ~ in the hope that, like The Cure, sometimes a bad gig is just a bad gig & the next one will be superlative.
So I walked out about halfway through The Church's gig on Sunday night at the Factory, because I knew it wouldn't get any better. Right from the shambolic start of Tantalised, Marty Willson Piper, Steve Kilbey, Peter Koppes & Tim Powles looked like ensuring the support bands were the highlight of the evening. We started the gig at the front, but the sound was waaay too guitar heavy & the vocals almost non-existent, so moved back about 2/3s. Okay, now we could hear Kilbey, but not the others & Marty's guitar was still TOO F@#KING LOUD!!!! Which ordinarily wouldn't be a problem, except that he patently wasn't on top of his game & it just crapped all over the band's usual, languid precision. And so, off we went.
There's never been an official 'Live' album from these guys & on the strength of that gig, there won't be any time soon...
I'll still buy the new album & see them next time ~ in the hope that, like The Cure, sometimes a bad gig is just a bad gig & the next one will be superlative.
