burun wrote:Every time they play here in NYC there is some extenuating circumstance that keeps me from seeing them.

Skronk wrote:It's a shame you can't be here to see them in October.

run joe, run wrote:

Champion Rabbit wrote:No idea what the fuss is about.

Well, I went to see these chaps at the Scala in London's Kings Cross. Indeed, there wasn't much to write home about - until the motherfuckers started playing. Matt Pike writhed and darted like a starving hellhound leashed to a Marshall stack, and tormented monsters of heartbreaking volume flew from his amp (a bit like those spirits at the end of Raiders Of The Lost Ark). Joe bass man looked and played like a mass murderer who has learned how to make earthquakes happen and Des drummer man looked a tiny bit like the guy from CHiPs and drummed a tiny bit like Zeus.

Aaaaaanyway, this was all well and good, and I was most impressed with these nice tattoed gentlemen, but then the gig got really interesting: they actually destroyed the Scala. I mean to say, they played the hardest, heaviest, most atom shattering hard rock I've heard (and I speak as someone who has witnessed the live charms of AC/DC, Slayer and Mastodon) with such final-hour ferocity that the building literally collapsed.

The Scala isn't there any more - you can check!

A downside was that I unfortunately had my face melted, and so lost the use of my eyes, which were of course also melted; I am dictating this post to my deaf secretary (who - ironically - I met at the very same gig).

Hope this helps some!

Marsupialized wrote:Pure and utter CRAP.