 Klone are a progressive metal band from France
and an extremely good one at that. Very Tool-esque
sound especially with the vocals yet he can still
get some quite beast metal screaming in there
when he needs to. Even though there wasn’t
really much of a crowd they did the best with
what they had and powered through a journey of
progressive energy. The song were extremely long
they had a fairly large set and I think only did
7 songs; towards the end of the set it began to
get a bit boring but for the most part was exciting.
The lighting helped the sound they had really
dim lighting and dark blues so that you couldn’t
really see them and they were more silhouettes
than actual people which made it quite trippy;
very good show from a band relatively unknown
in this country.
King’s X are just far too cool for their
own good. Striding onto the stage as though they’ve
walked through the front door of their homes,
they look that comfortable. Bassist Doug Pinnick
wearing an extremely nice hat and some attitude;
the man is a very soul orientated person but can
twang that base with some damn talent and his
voice has some soul and passion in there. You
would never think that man was 60  years of age
he’s in great shape and has the playful
attitude on stage comparable to that of some extremely
young bands today. They tear through a set of
massive heavy rock tunes with some great twists
and turns throughout. The drummer gets his name
chanted a fair bit and smashes at that kit to
pieces with great skill, the guitarist too has
some great technical skills his solo’s whilst
not all being really fast and furious are very
fitting and clean. They messed up once but that
didn’t bother them at all they embraced
it “That wasn’t on purpose, we never
fuck up on purpose, I played the wrong song because
I can’t read”. When the night goes
to an end and they come back on for their encore
they make those last 3 songs last a while just
to get a bit more humour in there when they made
a song last for 6 minutes longer that it should
have making it seem to come to a stop several
times. They are all very nice guys and they play
some phenomenal music they may have been going
30 years but they seem to never get stale; they
weren’t lying about the fans too, there
may have been only 1000 people in the room but
they sounded like 10,000 with wave after wave
of people singing and dancing around. Such a great
way to spend a Sunday night.
Klone – 4/5
King’s X – 5/5
Review By James Webb Photos By Oliver Goodman
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