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Lincoln
University student Holly Blood reviews a gig from The Duke Of Wellington,
Broadgate, Lincoln - Friday June 25, 2004
Unhinged
This four-piece death metal band were first up in the line-up of four bands.
They were well-received by a fairly big crowd at The Duke and there was
a little crowd participation in that the lead singer came running through
the audience in the middle of some songs, singing at certain audience members.
They played five songs in all, most of which sounded just about the same,
though performed somewhat differently. Though I think that's the whole concept
of death metal - singing in the same way, different lyrics (not very understandable
throughout most songs and a lot of drumming and guitar-work). This is not
to say the whole performance was bad, though entertaining and worth to £4
entrance-fee as a headlining band.
Throne
I am friends with the guitarist of this death-metal type band, who like
to put themselves in the stoner-skudge genre. And although I am in for
criticism of favouritism, I enjoyed them better than Unhinged. Saying
that, they were better than the up-coming two bands, later in the night.
Throne wasted
no time in promoting their demo, which was only £1 for a DVD-boxed
CD with three tracks. They played two songs from the demo and went down
a storm. They were actually one of only two who introduced themselves
and most of the songs they were playing, which I thought was a good way
to perform. The other band being Unhinged who did this also.
The singer
in Throne also came down into the crowd, though not as dogmatically as
the singer in Unhinged.
A good time
was had by all and the audience was still as strong for them as for the
first band.
Stand
In Autumn
This band were a little cross-genred as they started out in the death-metal
genre, but then in their music played melodic chords. I have no idea what
this cross-over would be but it worked well in some songs than it did
in others. They too came into the crowd, though by this point there were
less people at the front and more along the left-hand side of the room
near the front. More room for Stand In Autumn to jump around and create
a slamming-pit I suppose (I refuse to call this a mosh-pit because jumping
around and jumping into people on purpose to me isn't moshing, it's slamming
and ruins things for those who're trying to watch the band or mosh properly
and who can get caught up in the slamming).
They were
entertaining and fun to watch to a point but I wouldn't go and see them
as a headlining act or on their own - they just weren't good enough for
that.
Shooting
Victor Francis
By this point I was beginning to grow tired of the whole slamming-pit.
SVF's music was the same type of thing, but with more emphasis on some
drunken audience members and the lead singer being on the floor and in
the slamming-pit. They had some good songs in their repertoire though
once you've seen one band along these lines (and indeed I'd seen three
others by now), some might say you'd seen them all.
They didn't
stand out for me as a band to say 'I went to The Duke last night and saw
some bands and Shooting Victor Francis were my favourite'. Having said
that, what was left of the audience were enjoying them - forgive my cynicism
but methinks with it being near the end of the night the only people who
were left to watch them were friends of theirs and people who were a little
too drunk to be bothered by the fact that they weren't exactly outstanding,
that kept them a crowd.
This doesn't
take anything away from their abilities as a rock band, but just not my
cup of tea by the end of a night.
Holly
Blood
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