just realised i havent done a gig update about taste of chaos :O so here it is....
Taste of Chaos 2008 with Atreyu, Story of the Year, As I Lay Dying, MUCC, HORSE the Band and Ispystrangers at Birmingham Academy 2 on the 21st October 2008
Ispystrangerswere the first band on and im thinking an not well known band? they won the battle of the bands contest, anyways they were ok, they were half way through their set by the time we got inside so carnt remeber them that well, i remember blanking the singer tho by accident when i went to the toilet *soooorrryyy* lol
HORSE the band were first main band on and got such an crappy reaction from the audience, the band acted like that didnt care or were majorly drugged up or weird and just like that and the crowd were quite nasty towards them taunting them, i thought they played a pretty good set and was good to here something different than the typical scremo/emo band excepted at this sorta gig
MUCC i think were the shock of the night for a lot of people, they were one of the best bands there! i had my douts about them as from what i heard on the internet before the gig they sounded like a j pop crap band but they were well good, really entertaining and even tho they spoke in japensise they were interesting to listen to and the sound sounded good (if that makes sense) really glad they were there :)
Story of the Year were the band i really wanted to see :) nothing like hearing 'until the day i die' live. :) i really enjoyed them yet the crowd made it kinda crappy, a HUGH mosh pit started :/ the gig was already moved into the small crappy room and when the mosh pit started you could hard move! they were moshing to the LIGHT SOTY SONGS!!!!! weird people, but apart from that ruining it a little it was good
As I Lay Dying .... dont really know/remember what they were like as i was too busy making sure i wasnt dragged into the mosh pit or knocked out by idiots knocking into everyone on purpose even if they wernt int he pit! the croud ruing this band, carnt remember them so carnt comment on them really...
Atreyu I would say were one of the best ones there! they sounded perfect, they sounded like you were listening to a cd/mp3 if that makes sense? he sang them well and got topless half way through :D haha by now i think we were geting banged into all the time from the moshers but we still managed to see/hear the band ok, they played quite a lot of songs and all sounded really good and crowd loved them :D at the end we rushed off just as they were finishing and was giving a full size rockstar drink on the way out which was ace :D haha
so yeh over all pretty good gig with a few suprises by bands, the crowd sucked tho at this gig, because the range of bands that played were SO different from each other, for example story of the year = emo, as i lay dying = heavy metal MUCC = J Pop/Rock Horse = Nitendocore...it attracted a range of fans so not everyone enjoyed all off the bands, so yeh a weird gig in general but good to see such a range off different bands :D
