Bit of a catch up today. First up Goo Goo Dolls from last Thursday 12th October at Cardiff Union. Again a good atmosphere & completely sold out, mostly by 5'0'' freshers at our end! Supported by Tinder Box who were quite similar - good modern sound, kind of Goos meets The Killers. Quite a professional sound and manner compared to many support acts. Check out their myspace or website.
Excellent set by the Goos - one of my few gripes that it wasn't long enough! Set list included: Stay With You (first?), Let Love In, Can't Let It Go, Better Days, Feel The Silence and Become from current album Let Love In; and of older songs, Iris (after having a dig at Ronan Keating's cover), Name, Laughing, Broadway, plus Smash & Tucked Away from the Gutterflower album. I would have preferred more songs from Gutterflower, but I imagine that theirs is a dynamic set list. Encore was Give A Little Bit. Great lighting as well, obviously designed for a larger venue as the stage was mich bigger than usual. Biased of course but maybe Millennium Stadium?? First outing for new camera as well, a few clips below.
Next - iLIKETRAiNS at Barfly last night (19th). I had heard quite good things of this band but was very disappointed by them. The 2 support bands, Early Years and locals The Jan Watkins Band were in our opinion completely crap. The Jan Watkins Band were fairly melodic but just sounded like 1 song! Early Years were trying to be Mogwai and failing miserably, and seemed to be spending all their budget on lighting rather than tunes. iLIKETRAiNS - the songs I had heard online (myspace) were ok but the live show - the post title says it all! They were on late to start by about 20 mins and didn't extend the set to make up for it. Some good props - slide/film projector & a bow for the guitarist, plus v enthusuastic cornet player. Otherwise, sombre in the extreme, as if they need a good shake & be told to cheer up! Underwhelming.
Better things to come - a few more trips to Barfly in the offing and another gig by Innercity Pirates.
Excellent set by the Goos - one of my few gripes that it wasn't long enough! Set list included: Stay With You (first?), Let Love In, Can't Let It Go, Better Days, Feel The Silence and Become from current album Let Love In; and of older songs, Iris (after having a dig at Ronan Keating's cover), Name, Laughing, Broadway, plus Smash & Tucked Away from the Gutterflower album. I would have preferred more songs from Gutterflower, but I imagine that theirs is a dynamic set list. Encore was Give A Little Bit. Great lighting as well, obviously designed for a larger venue as the stage was mich bigger than usual. Biased of course but maybe Millennium Stadium?? First outing for new camera as well, a few clips below.
Next - iLIKETRAiNS at Barfly last night (19th). I had heard quite good things of this band but was very disappointed by them. The 2 support bands, Early Years and locals The Jan Watkins Band were in our opinion completely crap. The Jan Watkins Band were fairly melodic but just sounded like 1 song! Early Years were trying to be Mogwai and failing miserably, and seemed to be spending all their budget on lighting rather than tunes. iLIKETRAiNS - the songs I had heard online (myspace) were ok but the live show - the post title says it all! They were on late to start by about 20 mins and didn't extend the set to make up for it. Some good props - slide/film projector & a bow for the guitarist, plus v enthusuastic cornet player. Otherwise, sombre in the extreme, as if they need a good shake & be told to cheer up! Underwhelming.
Better things to come - a few more trips to Barfly in the offing and another gig by Innercity Pirates.
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