The more Sleigh Bells I listen to, the more I hope they play Rams Head Live.

next friday i'm going to see A Day to Remember and the support band is Underoath

I recently went to see Anaal Nathrakh at the Classic Grand, mainly because my pal Neil's band were opening, Chronocide. Watched them, quite enjoyed it, & then dozed off which was also quite nice.

Before that I saw Watain & Shining, & Shining almost single-handedly restored my faith in live music.

This past weekend, saw Kronos Quartet twice, and in between, saw a little band called Rush playing all of some album called "Moving Pitchers" or something I don't really know.

I got back late last night from Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, The Color Revolt, and The New Regime. The New Regime who were up first had a great guitarist and a sort of Jack White but more pop going on. There performance wasn't bad either. The Color Revolt basically played shoe staring music, so they failed to interest me while playing live. Thursday was great, and although I haven't followed them for several years they played one song from A City By the Light Divided which made me happy. Then Taking Back Sunday came on. They played a variety of songs, old and new. Most of them either will be on the new album or were on Tell All Your Friends, but they played one song from Where You Want to Be, one from New Again, and several from Louder Now. I can now say that I have been in a mosh pit. My advice to everyone is make sure that you're shoes are tied and double knotted before you go into a mosh pit. The most fun songs overall were Timberwolves at New Jersey, Everything Must Go, El Paso, Cute Without the E, and my favorite was This is all Now. This Is All Now was my favorite because Adam started by singing it while crowdsurfing. Then he spotted a couple of girls at the bar making out and naturally went over there. I was in a good spot to follow, and was right up front when he used the bar counter as a stage. Then he decided to give me a hair and face massage. I was at first slightly creeped out, but then he whispered to me "thanks for being a good sport". Haha

Just bought tickets for Alter Bridge in November. Supported by Black Stone Cherry as well, it'll be a fucking amazing night!

I'm hopefully going to see Tech N9ne next month in VA Beach. Also hoping to go see Taking Back Sunday with Thursday next month as well. Gonna try to see Incubus in September too.

Concerts I've been to though:
Alkaline Trio w/ Thieves Like Us
Morrissey
30 Seconds To Mars
The Fall of Troy w/ Damiera, Tera Melos, & Portugal. The Man
Taking Back Sunday w/ The Subways, and Angles & Airwaves
Coheed & Cambria w/ The Fall of Troy, Clutch(Shittiest band ever), & Thrice
Brand New w/ Thrice(Seen them twice together), & Mewithoutyou
All That Remains, Bullet For My Valentine, Slayer, Marilyn Manson(& Other bands at the Mayhem Festival of '09 can't remember who was all on it)
August Burns Red, From First To Last, Every Time I Die, & The Bled
Hawthorne Heights, The Color Fred, & Emery
Taking Back Sunday w/ some local band
The Cult w/ some local band as well.

Can't really think of anymore but I know that there is haha.

Clutch, the shittiest band ever? I saw them recently (Download) and they were fucking awesome.

I vehemently disagree. Clutch aren't even the shittiest band on that bill. They are in fact (& this is scientific FACT even if there's no evidence to support it) the best band on that bill (which is other than Clutch absolutely terrible) you should consider yourself extremely priveleged.

Yeah, I own...I think I own every full length Clutch album except the most recent one & the live album (yes Paul, own own, not pirate own). Bluesy rock. It's not innovative or anything but it's just straight forward ace. Plus their older more hardcore oriented stuff is the tits too. I'll now subject you to 5 Clutch videos. Starting at more recent & going backwards in time. Straight forward toe-tappin' goodness to start off with, a reworked version of an old blues song by Mississippi Fred McDowell


Song that I first heard of Clutch's that made me fall in love with them.


Oh look, dead dude in this vid. Unexpectedly topical, forgotten he was in this vid. Censorship of "smoke lots of pot" is very childish, way to go totally illiberal America :( Oh look, Dunn just got run over by Brandon DiCamillo. I wasted so much time watch Jackass.


Getting older now, & you can totally (I hope) hear the difference.


And here we have a number from their debut record. Young, beardless Neil Fallon looks so odd. Far too young for that voice.


And as a bonus I was going to put up a song that was recorded as a novelty in the studio, the label decided to throw on the record Pure Rock Fury & got a wee bit of radio play in the US. But Youtube fails to deliver. Unlike Clutch who NEVER fail to deliver live.

Anyone who denies you the chance to see MCR is a good person. This is a fact. I saw them once by accident....hideous, hideous "band". ;)

My next few gigs will be...well nothing til September, then; Young Guns, and then Alter Bridge/Black Stone Cherry, followed by The Gaslight Anthem