 Damn
its freezing out here tonight, it only quickens
the pace of getting to the Flapper tonight, as
the frost starts to set on my toes!
Two bands I saw tonight, Zico Chains tour buddys,
To The Bone, a 4 piece Hard Rock band, no set
list in this dingy basement, i dare say many bands
have one down here really. The vocals,oh dear,
bit flat and shouty, although the singer complained
about the mic being shit, after a quick change
to a new mic, still no change. Luckily the rest
of the band fared much better, the drumming was
decent and solid, the lead guitarist, wasnt too
bad and the rythm guitarist/vocalist, was ok too,
with the bass rumbling underneath it all almost
getting lost in mix. Unfortunately when all these
ingredients were put together, more often than
not, the music was pretty flat, with very little
in the way of highs and lows, with a repetative
sound, about 4 songs in there was a decent intro
riff, before going back into the hard rock grind,
overall, its pretty average hard rock stuff, but
with some decent visual energy put into it, sadly
it doesn't make very appealing music!
 Zico Chain, come on after a quick change around,
and the stage is again flooded with more smoke,
unneeded really, tonight thay played a pretty
much identical set as they did when I last saw
them in September 2009, and again they proved
there a solid live act, and it begs the question
why are they still playing in the basement of
the flapper, and using this place to close the
tour, surely the academy 2 would be better at
least, but judging by the lack of crowd, its easy
to see why there in the basement, the fans? where
are they hiding! Songs that featured tonight,
were Bile and Blood, These Birds Will Kill Us
All , Our Evil, Day case, Where Would You Rather
Be?, Rohypnol, and set closer Pretty Pictures.
Again tonight giving it there all, spending there
last ounces of energy, for a well deserved rest,
after another UK tour comes to a close, hopefully
on the next one, they'll be moving on to bigger
and better things and Venues hopefully and a new
set list would be nice too!
To The Bone – 3/5
Zico Chain – 4/5
Review By Robert Lawrence
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