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Dark Decadence that is over by 10PM
Electric Ballroom @
- London @
- Fri 1 Apr 2011 @
Favourite moment: Last Call For Alcohol being sung at about 8.30 on a Friday Night!! @
Opening act(s): Hardcore Superstar, Crashdiet @
Posted 04/04/2011
by Bejesus
Location:London
The 69 Eyes, Hardcore Superstar & Crashdiet Live
At the Electric Ballroom camden 1.4.11.
This well put together package tour is called
the Dark Decadence tour which is in some ways
quite laughable as what kind of dark decadence
is it that has doors opening at 6pm and the
first band on before 7pm in 24 hour London? Well
this one does and wanting to see all the bands
meant showing up early and hanging with the Kids
and I do mean kids as I think it's safe to say
that most of Crashdiets fans weren't even born
when I first started seeing bands at the
Electric Ballroom and the bands favourite
subject matter of Teenage Rebellion probably
accounts for there age demographic as they are
now three albums and three singers into there
career and current pretty boy singer Simon Cruz
has the sort of Hair Sigue Sigue Sputnik used to
sport and gave a very full on performance they
opened with Down With Dust and that went full
pelt into So Alive during which the crowd got
going and I tried not to feel like a pervert
looking at the young girls while they did the
glam metal stomp so well. Simon was less than
polite about the bands management putting them
on a three band bill and the short amount of
stage time they had, which I can understand, but
he could end up biting the hand that feeds him.
Still everyone sang along to Breaking the Chainz
and they of course finished with there best
known anthem Generation Wild. It was a short
well played and action packed set, glad I
finally got to see them.
They were followed by the band I most wanted to
see again on this bill Hardcore Superstar who
were the second Swedish band of the night and
they killed it from the opening moments of
Sadistic Girls they totally owned the place and
everyone was up for it and they didn't hang
around much at all as all there classics were
rattled off from Dreaming in A Casket that is
just a total hit to We Don't Celebrate Sundays
Jocke and the boys were in top form and had the
longest hair of the night. For me the best song
of the set and the one that got the biggest sing
along was Last Call For Alcohol that being
played at around 8pm seemed a tad strange, I
still love how Guest list nails that particular
lifestyle. Another great set from them and as
always they left me wanting to see them again.
That is more than can ever be said of The 69
Eyes as it is about the 4th or 5th time I've
seen them and never through choice only as they
are always on good bills with other bands I want
to see and this performance fitted in like that
too. They opened with one of there best songs
Devils but as ever the singer Jyrki comes across
as a cross between Andrew Eldritch and Pete
Steele while looking like a cross between Joey
Ramone and Roy Orbison at an elvis convention he
managed to keep his leather jacket with tassles
done up all gig and his dark glasses on for a
good stretch of it. Dead n Gone sounded all
right but there is something a little flat about
them like they try too hard to be the next Cult
or sisters and over emphasise just how dark they
are on songs like Dance D'amour and Velvet touch.
The playing is tighter than it has been and
Jussi 69 is still one hell of a great and
entertaining drummer to watch. But still
somethings missing like the excitement the two
other bands provided.
Never Say Die was about as good as they got and
it had a good portion of the crowd singing
along, more so than the laughable Perfect Skin
as a band as pale and unhealthy looking as this
it is a tough sell so much so that at the end of
the set they failed to get an encore and there
seemed to be a rush to the doors which as it
wasn't even 10pm seemed a touch harsh but on
this bill they were the weakest of the three
bands.
the Dark Decadence tour which is in some ways
quite laughable as what kind of dark decadence
is it that has doors opening at 6pm and the
first band on before 7pm in 24 hour London? Well
this one does and wanting to see all the bands
meant showing up early and hanging with the Kids
and I do mean kids as I think it's safe to say
that most of Crashdiets fans weren't even born
when I first started seeing bands at the
Electric Ballroom and the bands favourite
subject matter of Teenage Rebellion probably
accounts for there age demographic as they are
now three albums and three singers into there
career and current pretty boy singer Simon Cruz
has the sort of Hair Sigue Sigue Sputnik used to
sport and gave a very full on performance they
opened with Down With Dust and that went full
pelt into So Alive during which the crowd got
going and I tried not to feel like a pervert
looking at the young girls while they did the
glam metal stomp so well. Simon was less than
polite about the bands management putting them
on a three band bill and the short amount of
stage time they had, which I can understand, but
he could end up biting the hand that feeds him.
Still everyone sang along to Breaking the Chainz
and they of course finished with there best
known anthem Generation Wild. It was a short
well played and action packed set, glad I
finally got to see them.
They were followed by the band I most wanted to
see again on this bill Hardcore Superstar who
were the second Swedish band of the night and
they killed it from the opening moments of
Sadistic Girls they totally owned the place and
everyone was up for it and they didn't hang
around much at all as all there classics were
rattled off from Dreaming in A Casket that is
just a total hit to We Don't Celebrate Sundays
Jocke and the boys were in top form and had the
longest hair of the night. For me the best song
of the set and the one that got the biggest sing
along was Last Call For Alcohol that being
played at around 8pm seemed a tad strange, I
still love how Guest list nails that particular
lifestyle. Another great set from them and as
always they left me wanting to see them again.
That is more than can ever be said of The 69
Eyes as it is about the 4th or 5th time I've
seen them and never through choice only as they
are always on good bills with other bands I want
to see and this performance fitted in like that
too. They opened with one of there best songs
Devils but as ever the singer Jyrki comes across
as a cross between Andrew Eldritch and Pete
Steele while looking like a cross between Joey
Ramone and Roy Orbison at an elvis convention he
managed to keep his leather jacket with tassles
done up all gig and his dark glasses on for a
good stretch of it. Dead n Gone sounded all
right but there is something a little flat about
them like they try too hard to be the next Cult
or sisters and over emphasise just how dark they
are on songs like Dance D'amour and Velvet touch.
The playing is tighter than it has been and
Jussi 69 is still one hell of a great and
entertaining drummer to watch. But still
somethings missing like the excitement the two
other bands provided.
Never Say Die was about as good as they got and
it had a good portion of the crowd singing
along, more so than the laughable Perfect Skin
as a band as pale and unhealthy looking as this
it is a tough sell so much so that at the end of
the set they failed to get an encore and there
seemed to be a rush to the doors which as it
wasn't even 10pm seemed a touch harsh but on
this bill they were the weakest of the three
bands.
Electric Ballroom @
- London @
- Fri 1 Apr 2011 @
Favourite moment: Last Call For Alcohol being sung at about 8.30 on a Friday Night!! @
Opening act(s): Hardcore Superstar, Crashdiet @
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