Glasgow 22nd April and Aberdeen 23rd April

[deadearnest]

Tend to agree with Jill's review -  I lamented the lack of real synths and
would have liked more searing lead guitar solos, but - hey - you can't be
picky. Good stuff, if not exactly incendiary.
Wolverhampton should be interesting-look forward to that one.
Andy G.
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From: Jill Strobridge <jill at THETA-ORIONIS.FREESERVE.CO.UK>
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Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 10:19 PM
Subject: HW: Glasgow 22nd April and Aberdeen 23rd April
> atmosphere and Hawkwind were - fantastic.  The set seemed to start a bit
> lightweight - Angela Android is a strong, fast, vocal track but without
> great depths of instrumentation underlying it and the drumming seemed
> surprisingly loud and brash but after that the tracks just got stronger
> and stronger.   "Quality" I heard someone say behind me when the band
> paused for breath after Where Are They Now - "that's real quality".  And
> it just got better.  The Chaos light show was in full flow - brilliantly
> colourful abstract sequences (my favourite were the spiked circles with
> a multicoloured spiral infilling) with some images - the fighter shots
> in The Right Stuff were spectacular.  The band were playing really well
> together - and the mixing was so good that I didn't, at all, feel that
> another instrument was needed.   Between them they managed to create all
> the layers and depth and quality of sound necessary.  They finished the
> set with Assassins of Allah (rather than Ejection) which was an
> excellent decision because everyone was still bouncing around and on a
> high and then came back for a two-track encore starting with Brainbox
> Pollution before sliding into Brainstorm.   Very satisfactory.
>
> The only track I didn't quite come to terms with was the new
> techno/industrial one "Trip?" probably because I couldn't make out the
> words spoken by the ?vocoder? - I'm sure I remember Dave introducing it
> as "Ode to a Timeflower" and indeed it could have been Calvert's poem
> enunciated by computer (or, then again, I could just be imagining it -
> it was that sort of an evening!).
>
> And now I'm wondering about Wolverhampton.
> jill
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