Fighting
with Wire are the only support on this leg of
the tour, they are a 3 piece hard rock band from
Ireland. They are plenty raw in their sound, it
ambles along at times before going mental for
a few brief seconds, amble is probably a poor
choice of words as its hardly slow stuff. They
have a fair few decent riffs but it’s not
the catchiest of material, the singer sounds like
the vocalist from funeral for a friend at times
and early on a bit like the vocalist from rage
against the machine, odd I know but then again
I could barely hear the vocals just lots of guitar
and drums. They are an alright band, not exactly
breaking boundaries and pushing the sonic barrier,
but overall a band that would probably make a
mentionable note on a playlist, but not something
I'd buy.
On
this tour fans are treated to a warm up acoustic
set by Coheed and Cambria, Claudio opens the set
with Pearl of the stars; it's a nice way to ease
into the night, with some crowd singing along
which happens even more so in Favour house Atlantic,
with crowd practically singing every word to the
song. My favourite song of the short acoustic
set is Mother Superior, almost like the album
version only much more heartfelt, it works better
as an acoustic song, and it’s just superb.
They close out the acoustic set with Wake up,
a good way to remind the crowd to do just that
when they kick in with the full blooded electric
set.
C&C
open their full blooded set with one of my favourites,
No world for tomorrow, what an electric opening,
super catchy song, there's nothing bad I can say
about the song, it’s how you write a metal
song. One thing I will say about the band is that
they are not to everyone's liking, some of the
material is hard to get into, this is not the
case with the following opening songs, Gravemakers
and Gunslingers. Everything evil, Sentry the defiant
are songs that proper C&C fans will get, and
then the superbly catchy Ten speed, a really great
song to get the casual fan back into the set.
They
play a new song off the latest album, the opening
and title track, The Afterman, it's a pretty good
song, it takes the night down a notch, it feels
like a opening track, could have been well suited
to the acoustic part of the night. The middle
set has songs that you either like or don't, The
Suffering, Here we are Juggernaut are songs that
really tell you what this band is like in general,
the musicianship is superb, but there no killer
riff or solo in the songs, the crowd loves every
well played moment of them.
Getting into the final third of the night, they
play the likes of Goodnight, fair lady, In keeping
secrets of silent earth 3, which closes out the
main set to much a massive cheer from the crowd,
each song gradually getting better before a killer
encore of songs.
Them
final few songs are Domino the Destitute which
opens the encore which is swiftly followed by
an electric rendition of Favour House Atlantic,
then the blindingly superb and set closer Welcome
Home in which Claudio breaks out the double neck
Gibson, what a way to close out the night, with
a bit of show boating from Claudio, playing that
double neck behind his neck!
Coheed and Cambria are one of them bands that
you have to see live to understand just how damn
good they are, Superb night!
Fighting with Wire 3/5
Coheed And Cambria 5/5
Review By Robert Lawrence
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