 Takida
are tonight’s openers travelling from Sweden
to be a part of this UK tour, they’re music
ranges from extremely gentle to chunky riff filled
tunes. Not much excitement to them or energy on
display to really capture my full interest though,
not really a rock show more like guys just playing
music to me. When you’ve got 2 commercially
successful acts following you there should be
some degree of attempting to not fall in their
shadows and imprint your material into the crowd
so they still remember to check you out after
the show, whilst the music seemed decent I can
already feel the memory slipping away.
 Seether
are finally back in our country for the first
time in 3 years! I’ve been waiting to see
the band play a show for 8 God damn years and
tonight I finally get my wish! Even though it
was only a 9 song set I still thoroughly enjoyed
myself to no end! These South African grunge rockers
have brought some of the best 9 songs from their
longstanding career including songs from their
latest release “Holding onto Strings Better
Left to Fray” in the beautifully performed
“Tonight” and that retro feeling rocker
“Country Song”. No sight was more
beautiful the entire night than the band performing
the song that made them “Broken”;
people cried, everyone sang along and damn it
everybody felt the emotion. Between songs there
was minimal interaction more of a proper grungy
show with lots of distorted feedback and crisp
sounds, it’s not all gentle though with
songs like “Gasoline” and “Remedy”
but the really heavy stuff unfortunately seems
to be missing tonight much to my disappointment,
but what I did get is enough to leave a warm feeling
in my heart.
 3
Doors Down surprised me last year when they played
the exact same venue and blew me away as I was
expecting a less than invigorating show and was
dealt with an explosive set. This time they’ve
upped their game and their set is more energetic
and explosive than ever! What a set list as well,
19 songs including the best of their back catalogue
with an a cappella cover of “Another Day
in Paradise” by Phill Collins performed
by lead vocalist Brad Arnold, beautiful little
number. Arnold to be honest is the linchpin that
has pushed the bands performance far past anything
it has ever been in the past, he multiple times
dives into the crowd surfing around singing his
heart out, even his on stage presence has gone
up as he is much more explosive with raw energy
that has always been present but not to this standard.
As far as their own tracks go, they had their
big screen backdrop but this time had cameras
around putting the show on the screen for certain
tracks giving it a more of an arena show feel
as that’s usually the only place you see
that kind of production, set highlights for me
had to be “Citizen/Soldier”, “Changes”,
“Duck & Run” and the encore of
“Kryptonite” and “Believe with
a chorus of “Breaking The Law” by
Judas Priest slotted into the end, it was a tremendous
sight and an outstanding show that I won’t
soon forget.
Takida – 3/5
Seether – 4/5
3 Doors Down – 4.5/5
Review By James Webb
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