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Show Reviews for shows I didn’t pay attention to.
Can you write a review about a show you didn’t know was happening, had no intention of going to and really couldn’t give a shit about?
Fuck it, I’m gonna try!
So it starts with Sunday afternoon, I’d been fucking around the house all day doing housework, washing clothes, dishes and other general bullshit so my other half could sit on her arse all day watching movies while nursing a bastard of a fever.
It gets to about 6pm and I’m itching to leave the house, not to do anything in particular I just need to get out of that fucking apartment for a few minutes.
I start heading down to the shopping centre to pick up a few things when I find out there’s a show on at the pub a few doors down from my house and quite a few people I knew were going, which was really all the appeal because I hadn’t heard half the bands that were playing and didn’t really care all that much in general, I just wanted a few beers and never intended to go to the actual show.
It’s now 8pm, I head out the door and only plan on going for an hour, I’m there 20 minutes and everyone claims they’re going upstairs to watch Between the Devil and the Deep. So instead of sitting around drinking by myself for half an hour, which I could’ve just done at home but with the company of my sick girlfriend, I part with the $15 and head to the show.
Now that we’ve gotten through the play-by-play of my Sexy-Arse-Sunday the “review” can begin!
I’ve only ever seen BTDATD once, maybe twice before, but I hadn’t seen them before they went on their 1000 year hiatus forever and a day ago.
A few months ago I did however have the pleasure of seeing one of their first comeback shows and wow, what an awkward one that was…
One of the differences about the band making a comeback was that the singer had decided to give up playing bass while singing and just be the singer/front man/whatever and they would recruit a new bass player.
Considering the dude has probably never sang for a band without being able to hide behind his instrument it was pretty hard to watch so that was when I decided I wasn’t going to watch that band for a while.
Fast forward to this show however many months later and… fuck, the dude killed it; it made me actually want to actively see that band more often, so… good decision there, guy.
See, I’m the kind of guy who isn’t easily entertained when the singer of a band is also playing an instrument, I just find it boring.
I mean, how much of a self-aggrandising fuck are you to think you can command that much attention while multi-tasking? Fuck you.
Only a handful of dudes can really do that and pull it off, that cunt from Lungs is one of them, and he probably knows it, smug prick.
Funny that, from what I understand Lungs were supposed to play, but didn’t, whatever.
Anyway, BTDATD or “devils” as they’re more affectionately known, finished and I went home for 45 minutes or so to see how the girlfriend was doing.
I come home to find her watching the first Twilight movie, So I hang out with her while doing a running commentary on Twilight and Edward and Bella’s relationship thus, annoying her enough that she’s fine with me going back to the show to drink more beer.
I catch the last song from Paper Arms, this band has never been on my radar and probably never will be again, they’re not shit I just really couldn’t care less, their singer also plays guitar while singing, fuck off.
So I down a couple more beers before Bridge and Tunnel start, I’m glad I had those extra beers because every song from B&T sounds the same, they also have no stage presence and there’s nothing exciting about this band, indie wankery.
I give this band’s live show 2 pairs of black-rimmed, non prescription glasses out of 10.
I think I may have also missed the first band that played, but hey, they played first so they’re probably not even worth acknowledging, right?
This piece of self indulgent, non-sensical, mostly fictitious ridiculousness has been brought to you by…
AJ DeWolk