Sat 14 Nov – Alice in Chains, Little Fish

Well, I never got to see Alice In Chains with Layne, which always made me sad. I always remember Jerry saying that it would never be AIC without Layne, so I've been in two minds ever since I heard about the reunion. Mates, who I respect have told me how great London gigs and Sonisphere were, but yet still I wasn't wholly in on the whole idea. Yesterday afternoon I finally got round to listening to the new album on spotify. Pretty good - sounded like AIC should sound, but didn't…

It looks like we've got enough members now for our first chart.

Having just looked into it, the first one will happen towards the end of next week.

In the meantime lets see how many more people we can get on here, and help the charts be representative of everyones taste.

I've just been listening to the group's station and it's quite an eclectic mix.
If you've not tried that yet, I think it's one of the best ways to use last.fm
The address is:
http://www.last.fm/group/Radio+Republic
and just hit the 'Play the groups radio' button over on the right hand…

Mon 4 Jun – Lair of The Minotaur

Archer were first on and were a quite harsh band, possibly with similar roots to Narcosis. Set the tone well and I particulary loved the slight comedic voice of the vocalist between songs.

Next up. Lair of The Minotaur. Having only heard one track properly I didn't really know what to expect. But they impressed me. The guitarist reminded me in places of Dimebag (So much so when I got home I had to dig out Panetera's album). Overal they were much harsher than Pantera, but I enjoyed their volumuous noise!

Capricorns.…

Well I've been a speiling crap again.

I'm not sure what's happening at rock666 dot com at the moment. Kinda in limbo awaiting some other people that give a damn.. are you one ?

Anyways there's a couple of bands of the week posts over my myspazz blog.

Let me know if you hate myspazz soooo much that I should repost it here. It's effort. But then I do know how much effort loading Murdoch's beast is too!

Ian

Evidence:

Profane
Oceansize
Amplifier
I-Def-I
Days For Airstrikes
LAP
Shadow Cops
Stray Light
Palo Alto

All Manchester bands!!! All amazing.
And there's a huge amount more.

QED!!

Does your locality rawk more ??? TELL ME.

Saw Amplifier on Friday - thanks for the FREEBIE alert Profane-Daryll

I can't remember the last time I saw a band so happy to be there.
First gig in awhile aparently.
First time I've seem altogether.
Were very good.
Managed to transform my uber-bad-mood (seriously I was determined no fucker was cheering me up) into a smiley happyness.

A really cool head-swirly sound with floaty-bass.
An infectious sound.
(More infectious than freshers-flu ???)
Not a million miles from Oceansize, but still their own distinct sound.

Anyways they made a few mistakes n all that, but it wasn't really obvious and…

Well I saw a band called Battles on Friday night as part of the Manchester futursonic festy.

All I can say is FANTASTIC.

At the time I was thinking ooo like Primus on speed, with some Mars Volta, and quite a few beeps.

I was stunned how they managed to play geetar and keyboard at the same time. (And the taking it in turns to play a note on the keyboard in 'stereo' was a cool effect). Anyways the best established band I've never heard of for sure.

The rest of the bill was quite varied and interesting too….more about…