Letlive
Are a 5 piece progressive post hard core band,
I can see the progressive part quite well, as
a lot of their songs are quite disjointed, and
don't really take on a traditional full song structure
all the way through the song. It drifts from catchy
to random noise at times, with the lead guitarist
using whatever’s at hand to distort his
guitar like using a mic or a mic stand, or even
one of the stage monitor, it really works which
is what is surprising, I'm not sure if I like
this band there active there progressive and aggressive
on stage, the vocals screaming and clean which
suits the songs but not to always my taste. They
can really play their instruments, and I'm sure
there's some improve in there also, they seem
to be a tight band so they really just go for
it which is good to see, it just feels at time
that the songs lose their way somewhat before
coming back together for a good finish.
 Your demise are the main supports tonight there
a hardcore punk band, hardcore certainly they
are, the vocals more screaming stuff, it's just
about Palatable, the music as expected is full
on. Most of the time, again drifting between listenable,
to messy, there a good visual band to watch, really
active and can really get the crowd going most
of the time, plenty of crowd surfing going on.
Some of the guitar riffs are really good when
you got one of the stage monitors pointing at
you but elsewhere it gets lost in mess of the
song at times, the bass is really full on and
gets things shaking at times but at seems to drift
in and out, minor tech problem there, I don’t
know. There a good band it's just the songs get
messy, but are probably a band that need many
listens to work out just what is going on.
 Enter Shikari; well we finally got there after
many attempts, finally got on a headliner tour,
happy days. Anyway I'm not all that too familiar
with their material but I think I prefer there
live act over any of their CDs any day as its
really full on and probably more electronic based
and its superb, on the nose, dance rock Music
which reminds me somewhat of pendulum, as it's
the same genre really. They even break out the
acoustic guitars for a song. There's plenty of
singing and dancing going on which drives up the
heat in this sold out venue and the light show
is superb, making for great photo opportunities
and  really adds to the music atmospherically too.
It's a shame we got kicked out of the pit after
one song, much to the annoyance of the other togs
in there, I feel we have missed out on better
photos. I really enjoy the vocals to songs and
the guitar work mixed with synth is just superb
making for some really memorable catchy songs
that makes you want to listen to over and over,
but only live, this is a band that last time I
saw them there set dropped off, towards the end
but this set showed no signs of doing that as
it’s a solid set all the way through.
Letlive 3/5
Your Demise 3/5
Enter Shikari 5/5
Review By Robert Lawrence |
