The Exorcism of The Kills
Well I'm sure if you are reading this you are reading the posts of all the other people who attended the Bloc Party and Kills show on monday and this one will be no different. On a sidenote does anybody know if the Noisettes did actually play or not?
I have to say I was thrilled with the performance by The Kills and if you've seen the Exorcism of Emily Rose you might join in my idea that the lead singer of the Kills, named either Hotel or VV (just not sure who is who in the band), looked like she was possessed with her extremely jerky movements on stage and the hair covering her face for the first four songs or so. I absolutely loved her stage presence, and on another sidenote The Exorcism of Emily Rose was a bit of a let down movie. The only thing I was disappointed about with the Kills set was the lack of tunage from their first album 'Keep On Your Mean Side' besides Kissy Kissy and Fried My Little Brains the remainder of the songs were off of the 'No Wow' album. A little more album diversity would've been nice but I guess you can only do so much with an 8-10 song set.
After hanging in the middle of the crowd for the Kills, I slowly began to maneuvre myself closer for Bloc Party but got stopped behind some uber-geek with a terrible attempt at a fro, white guys can't grow fro's. Thankfully however, some gents in the back decided they wanted to get to the front as well and started pushing their way up to the front and bumped into the nerdy white guy and then he started complaining so they jumped behind me and pushed me right through the nerd and proceeded to use me as a battering ram to get through the crowd. I had no problem with this because it allowed me to accomplish my goal of getting closer to the stage. After a bit of physicality in the front of the crowd I was able to squeeze myself up to the second row, which worked out quite well because there was two girls in front of me that were short and they made a much more comfortable wall than if I were to have made it front row and been crushed against the metal barrier. I found Bloc Party to be quite good live but despite large amounts of time spent listening to music my ear is not trained very well for hearing the inadequacies others critique during a concert, also the positioning of myself in the middle of all the action doesn't create a great environment for properly judging good sound.
With all the fun and excitement I was taken by surprise by the second encore, as it was not listed on the setlist, which I could visibly see on the stage, so if infact it was an unplanned second encore that made it all the more worthwhile. The one disappointment I had with their set was my missed opportunities at snagging some memorabilia, as I had gotten my hand partially on a drumstick on two occasions and a setlist but in all instances was unable to get it fully into my possession due to factors such as pulling an abdomenal muscle, being a gentleman and letting the gal in front of me take the setlist (stupid move seeing as I would never have to see this girl again). Anyways, after-it-all was said and done I was soaked from head-to-toe in sweat and it was most definitely worth it. Although up until that point I had not seen any of the londoner's that I knew that were also attending the show. However, upon walking outside topless I noticed Eano and said hello who was also with the lovely Paige, and they have much more interesting blog posts for the after party extravaganza's.
And that's my little blurb on that, and now I'm going to stop because for some reason my head feels like it is weightless yet weighs a thousand pounds. It's fucking messed at the moment and I don't know why but I'll take this state of sober inebriation elsewhere for now.
I have to say I was thrilled with the performance by The Kills and if you've seen the Exorcism of Emily Rose you might join in my idea that the lead singer of the Kills, named either Hotel or VV (just not sure who is who in the band), looked like she was possessed with her extremely jerky movements on stage and the hair covering her face for the first four songs or so. I absolutely loved her stage presence, and on another sidenote The Exorcism of Emily Rose was a bit of a let down movie. The only thing I was disappointed about with the Kills set was the lack of tunage from their first album 'Keep On Your Mean Side' besides Kissy Kissy and Fried My Little Brains the remainder of the songs were off of the 'No Wow' album. A little more album diversity would've been nice but I guess you can only do so much with an 8-10 song set.
After hanging in the middle of the crowd for the Kills, I slowly began to maneuvre myself closer for Bloc Party but got stopped behind some uber-geek with a terrible attempt at a fro, white guys can't grow fro's. Thankfully however, some gents in the back decided they wanted to get to the front as well and started pushing their way up to the front and bumped into the nerdy white guy and then he started complaining so they jumped behind me and pushed me right through the nerd and proceeded to use me as a battering ram to get through the crowd. I had no problem with this because it allowed me to accomplish my goal of getting closer to the stage. After a bit of physicality in the front of the crowd I was able to squeeze myself up to the second row, which worked out quite well because there was two girls in front of me that were short and they made a much more comfortable wall than if I were to have made it front row and been crushed against the metal barrier. I found Bloc Party to be quite good live but despite large amounts of time spent listening to music my ear is not trained very well for hearing the inadequacies others critique during a concert, also the positioning of myself in the middle of all the action doesn't create a great environment for properly judging good sound.
With all the fun and excitement I was taken by surprise by the second encore, as it was not listed on the setlist, which I could visibly see on the stage, so if infact it was an unplanned second encore that made it all the more worthwhile. The one disappointment I had with their set was my missed opportunities at snagging some memorabilia, as I had gotten my hand partially on a drumstick on two occasions and a setlist but in all instances was unable to get it fully into my possession due to factors such as pulling an abdomenal muscle, being a gentleman and letting the gal in front of me take the setlist (stupid move seeing as I would never have to see this girl again). Anyways, after-it-all was said and done I was soaked from head-to-toe in sweat and it was most definitely worth it. Although up until that point I had not seen any of the londoner's that I knew that were also attending the show. However, upon walking outside topless I noticed Eano and said hello who was also with the lovely Paige, and they have much more interesting blog posts for the after party extravaganza's.
And that's my little blurb on that, and now I'm going to stop because for some reason my head feels like it is weightless yet weighs a thousand pounds. It's fucking messed at the moment and I don't know why but I'll take this state of sober inebriation elsewhere for now.
