Uxfest 2006 at Carling Academy Islington Aug 2006

Uxfest 2006, Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:25:01, Carling Academy Islington, London, The Event on Last.fm.

From a Gig Review post:
Featuring(everyone I saw):
Skindred
Murder One
Biomechanical
Kingsize Blues
Exit Ten

A very strong bill which I saw only a fraction of. I really wanted to see PDHM live, they had to pull out of their warm up show the week before in Camden so quite psyched but it was not to be. I turned up at about 5ish just before they were to be on with the plan to go in watch them see maybe another band or two then leave get some food/drink and head back in and make sure I saw Skindred and Murder One. Only problem? NO re-admission!!!! Did you see that no fucking re-admission this thing started at 3pm and the aftershow club was to go on till 2am they expected you stay in the place for upto 11 hours? Fucking joke. So in the end skipped PDHM and went in at 7ish and caught the bands listed above who I will review.

Exit Ten: Fuck off you’re shit and are emo whiny “metal” you have no talent are trying to be Funeral Valentine for the Horizon and you are awful.

Kingsize Blues: Perennial support band in London, think I’ve seen them twice before this and they are good. The crwod like what they are doing and they are metal. Picked up their CD, suppose it’s like a heavy Killswitch Engage with hardcore elements. They are playing with Mendeed(from Glasgow need I say more?) and Sanctotum(who suck) in October I’ll probably pop along if I’m around 😀

Biomechanical: OK I’m siure I kinda liked their CD when I heard it in HMV but this is the second time I’ve seen them live and I don’t get it they try everything at once and the vocalist can do many styles just does them all at once in the same song and it doesn’t work. Maybe if someone gives me the CD for free and I get into them I’ll like it live but not a band you could go see with no knowledge of songs and enjoy. Left just before they finished as well as guess who was on the extreme stage 🙂

Murder One: Brilliant, amazing, I aint been this mesmerised since I last saw Raging Speedhorn, I only got the CD that day so only knew Onscreen Rapist from the first EP but they were animal, Sarah also got to see their drummer Jammer(on left). He’s a big guy….

Skindred: These guys were on form, not quite as top form as the support slot for Pitchshifter but when you’re playing a headline slot you can mess around a bit more which they did and it worked. These guys have obviously been working their tails off since the release, and subsequent re-release, of Babylon and their live show says it all. They did play a new tune which went down well and din’t distrub the flow but they did say somet about not recording a new album till 2008 which better not be true Babylon is getting long in the tooth and they need new material.

This entire festival was a charity thing and cost £10, it was the best tenner I’ve spent on music in ages, I should be at this next year if they even have half the quality bands they had this year, but they better allow re-admission or I will again have to skip a good chunk of the day 🙁

Later days,
Halo

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