Having been on my feet since 8am to get to Birmingham
Waterstones for his book signing at 9:30 and I
STILL wasn’t included in the first 300 people
he was seeing as I was number 343 (thank God he
extended it and did an extra 100 so I got seen)
and then headed off to the HMV Institute for the
concert.
Having seen Corey play with slipknot this weekend
at Sonisphere I was particularly excited to see
what this night was going to consist of. We all
piled in to this moderate sized room and eagerly
awaited the arrival of the man we’re here
to see them he came. The first section of the
night was a reading from his new book which he
admitted to being a little bit nervous about;
he read us a section from chapter 5 entitled “Three
Toed Sloth” and then had a 50 minute Q&A
with the audience which shed a lot of light on
Corey Taylor as a human being and his points of
view on various topics. Things that came up were
such things as the future of Slipknot, life on
the road, family life and a very emotional story
of Corey’s fondest memory of Paul Gray.
After the Q&A Corey left for 5 minutes to
have a smoke and pee before returning to serenade
us with acoustic music for the remainder of the
evening, we got some absolute gems like “Bother”,
“Through the Glass”, “Wicked
Game”, “Hesitate” and an acoustic
version of Slipknot classic “Spit it Out”
. As well as this he did many covers; most memorable
to me were “Wild Horses” by the Rolling
stones, “Patience” by Guns N’
Roses, “Black” by Pearl Jam and “You
Got Lucky” by Tom Petty. Those are the full
songs I remember but he also has a bit of a laugh
with playing tiny snippits of other songs like
“Paranoid” by Black Sabbath, “Killing
in the Name of” by RATM and Everlong by
Foo Fighters amongst many others. My favourite
part of the night is where Corey gets his son
onstage as well as his niece on stage and embarreses
them by singing the spongebob squarepants theme
tune for them, it was absolutely hysterical.
For a night of a man, with a book and an acoustic
guitar on paper looks like it’d be a bit
boring; Corey Taylor however took it added some
laughs, some tears and some intellect to it and
made it a night that I will never forget for as
long as I live.
5/5
Review By James Webb
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