 Over
the past few years Jagermeister have been one
of the most important brands in the alternative
music industry, they have a roster of approximately
40 bands and they range from up and coming bands
like The Defiled, Deaf Havana, Turbowolf, Black
Spiders to your more well established bands such
as Therapy?, Skindred, Enter Shikari, Bullet For
My Valentine and many others, and Jagermeister
help these bands by putting them on at festivals,
financing their banners, merch and general promotion
and just as importantly generally keeping them
in supply of Jagermeister which I am sure comes
very handy during those cold winter days of sleeping
in clapped out vans.
 Jagermiester
also treat the fans of the bands just as well
by providing kick arse tours at a cost where it
would be rude not to attend, with the Jagermiester
tour 2012 being bigger and better than any of
the previous tours with the 2012 having Skindred
headline with Therapy?, Black Spiders and a local
band from each city hit up 5 cities across the
UK and we happened to make it down for the last
show of the tour at Bristol, Academy.
As we made it through the door we were greeted
by the Jagermeister promotion team who were there
giving out all sorts of different Jagermeister
freebies, as we made our way into the main room
of the venue everything was black and orange like
an tangoed Zebra due to Jagermeister rightfully
dominating everything from the wall, the ceiling,
and even accessorizing people with their colours
and brand.
Due to arriving into Bristol late and having to
get a taxi to the venue we ended up missing the
opening band Turbowolf but managed to get in just
in time for the Black Spiders to take to the stage
and they put on a great show blasting out 7 songs
and also having a lot of banter with the crowd
in-between songs.
 Their
set consisted of songs such as ‘stay Down’,
‘Just Like A Women’, ‘Blood
Of The Kings’ but it was ‘Kiss Tried
To Kill’ me which got the best reaction
from the crowd in the Academy tonight with the
pit kicking off big time and the security kept
on their feet in case of any potential early crowd
surfers.
I have seen the Black Spiders live so many times
now and each and every time they seem to be that
little bit tighter as a live band and tonight
they were on top form with drummer Tiger Si Atkinson
standing out the most with his outstanding drum
work and funny facial expressions.
 Therapy?
Were up next and the band took to the stage looking
all smartly dressed in shirts and ties they opened
up with ‘Teethgrinder’ and Andy Cairns
wasted no time getting involved with the crowd
stepping off stage and playing his guitar and
singing amongst the crowd once again the security
were kept on their feet ensuring the safety of
the crowd band and photographers.
Throughout the set Therapy? managed to cram 11
tracks in and in-between songs Andy had a lot
of time for the crowd thanking them for supporting
the band for the past 20 years and asking them
if they remembered the times they played at the
Thekla down the road which was met with massive
screams.
The set featured a mixture of old and new songs
and tracks such as ‘Ghost Trio’, ‘Die
Laughing’, ‘Get Your Dead Hand Off
My Shoulder’ and set closer ‘Screamager’
went down extremely well with the crowd tonight.
The crowd really seemed to enjoy Therapy? Tonight
and I have to agree they did put on a good show
but at the same time I do believe that Therapy?
Are an enquired taste.
 Over
the past couple of years Skindred have gone from
strength to strength and released some killer
albums and taken part on some career changing
tours with the Rob Zombie come back tour back
in 2011 being one of the most important tours
for Skindred in the UK so far.
As the lights in the Academy dimmed the classic
AC/DC track ‘TNT’ was played over
the sound system with a mad flurry of lights as
soon as the song finished Skindred made their
way to the stage with Benji Webbe taking centre
stage but moments later Benji walked off stage
looking very irritated but after massive chants
of Skindred from the crowd Benji and co returned
to the stage and rocked out solidly for the next
hour and ten minutes.
 Musically
Skindred were tight as anything tonight and found
time to mix in a bit of Slipknot, Amy Winehouse,
Beyonce, Rhianna and Slayer with their own music
and it sounded fantastic, performance wise the
band were full of energy which sent the pit into
mayhem with the crowd rocking back and forth with
many circle pits opening up.
Skindred closed the set with ‘Warning’
which is the lead single from their latest album
‘Union Black’ and easily proved why
they were the right act to headline the Jagermeister
tour after having the whole of the Academy jumping
up and down to their rifftastic synth driven sounds.
Black spiders 4/5
Therapy? 3/5
Skindred 5/5
Review By Trigger
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