en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 60 http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices http://www.last.fm/user/thesaltydog/journal The Last.fm journal for thesaltydog. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. http://www.last.fm/user/thesaltydog/journal/2012/06/19/5iford_dead_press!_live_review__download_festival_2012 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:27:08 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/thesaltydog/journal/2012/06/19/5iford_dead_press!_live_review__download_festival_2012 Fri 8 Jun – Download Festival 2012

Friday: http://www.deadpress.co.uk/13607/live-download-festival-donington-park-friday-08062012
Saturday: http://www.deadpress.co.uk/13615/live-download-festival-donington-park-saturday-09062012
Sunday: http://www.deadpress.co.uk/13618/live-download-festival-donington-park-sunday-10062012]]> http://www.last.fm/user/thesaltydog/journal/2012/02/09/5bp9xx_dead_press!_live_review__06_feb_12__reel_big_fish_@_princess_pavilion,_falmouth Thu, 9 Feb 2012 21:38:52 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/thesaltydog/journal/2012/02/09/5bp9xx_dead_press!_live_review__06_feb_12__reel_big_fish_@_princess_pavilion,_falmouth Mon 6 Feb – Reel Big Fish, Orange, The JB Conspiracy

http://www.deadpress.co.uk/10571/live-reel-big-fish-princess-pavilion-falmouth-06022012]]> http://www.last.fm/user/thesaltydog/journal/2012/02/07/5bkymv_dead_press!_live_review__04_feb_12__alestorm_@_white_rabbit Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:30:28 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/thesaltydog/journal/2012/02/07/5bkymv_dead_press!_live_review__04_feb_12__alestorm_@_white_rabbit Sat 4 Feb – Useless Drunken Bastards Tour

http://www.deadpress.co.uk/10520/live-alestorm-white-rabbit-plymouth-04022012

Plymouth appears to be the only place in the UK that isn’t snowed under, and that actually turns out to be lucky for the first date of Alestorm‘s “Useless Drunken Bastards” tour. Now on their third album of pirate themed folky power metal, they are renowned for their party atmosphere at gigs. As it is, everyone loves dressing up as a pirate for some reason, so they’ve managed to build on a niché that is always gonna be successful. Luckily, they can back it up with good song writing skills and catchy drinking anthems that are easy to sing along to. Even if every song pretty much sounds the same.


We are greeted by a huge queue, the longest that I’ve ever seen at the White Rabbit that must contain 200+ people. Many of them are wearing Huron t-shirts; the Plymouth-based band were supposed to be opening the gig, but sadly just end up playing to an empty room as nobody is let through the doors. A fuck up on the part of Advance Promotions, it seems.

Luckily, the rest of the night goes without hitch and it’s Darkest Era (***) who come out to an absolutely rammed room. The Belfast natives play folk metal much along the lines of Primordial and Mael Mordha, maybe lacking as much oomph as those bands though. Nonetheless, they play a solid half hour and appear to go down well amongst the crowd. They should have gained a few fans at least, and will no doubt gather more as the tour goes on.

Continuing the international taste are Australians Claim The Throne (***). Sounding kinda like a heavier version of Alestorm (vocals wise anyway), the accordion mozies out and causes spontaneous jigs to break out in places. Frontman Baronaxe pleads with the crowd “Make some noise, ya nerds” true Aussie style, and gets a good reaction as servings of melodeath are thrown into the mix.

But, Alestorm (****) are who everyone are really here to see, and they whip up the crowd into a puddle of sweat to combat the cold outside. Opening with ‘Shipwrecked’ and the excellent ‘Wenches And Mead’, they effortlessly conjure the crowd into singalongs. They’re the sort of band that when you’re tiring reaching the end of the gig are able to bring out another brilliant song to call on that last ounce of energy that you have. Just when you think it’s all over, they bring out ‘Captain Morgan’s Revenge’ and ‘Death Throes Of The Terrorsquid’ with a black metal section that would rival Immortal themselves. They end by giving the crowd a choice between ‘Rum’ and ‘Set Sail And Conquer’. It’s obvious which one wins out, so the night ends with a hardy singalong of “rum, rum, rum, aaaarrgghh”.

Written by Martin Savage]]> http://www.last.fm/user/thesaltydog/journal/2011/10/21/4uetvy_dead_press!_live_review__16_oct_11__evile_@_white_rabbit Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:23:43 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/thesaltydog/journal/2011/10/21/4uetvy_dead_press!_live_review__16_oct_11__evile_@_white_rabbit Sun 16 Oct – Evile, Savage Messiah

http://www.deadpress.co.uk/8270/live-evile-white-rabbit-plymouth-16102011]]> http://www.last.fm/user/thesaltydog/journal/2008/04/02/8ylst_lolgig_020408_%5Bgogol_bordello,_skindred%5D Wed, 2 Apr 2008 22:00:38 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/thesaltydog/journal/2008/04/02/8ylst_lolgig_020408_%5Bgogol_bordello,_skindred%5D Tue 1 Apr – Gogol Bordello, Skindred

Fecking awesome gig! Was on the barrier the whole time, first gig I've done that for (I usually mosh). Skindred, starting with STAR WARS was brilliant, and their set was great.

Gogol Bordello played 20 songs for like, 2 hours I think, and they were really good as well. Eugene fucking stood on me haha xD Before standing on the barrier and giving me and my mate the mic! I think it was for Romania or Baro Faro...I dont know how we sounded! Shook (slapped) hands with most of the bands afterwards as well, that was really good of them.

When Eugene tried to grab the girl from security! xD Was lollin. Destroying the mic in the fire bucket as well, hah.

Many an injury now...I can feel my food go down =( And my arms and knees are shot to pieces. Have to say though, was SO WORTH IT!

Also, I HAD TO WEE MYSELF. I had NO CHOICE! Otherwise I would have lost my spot on the front row. To anyone who is reading this and was near me, surprise =D SUUUURE WASNT BEER.

Anyway yeah, great gig, I've been convinced to go back and see Skindred in May, dunno about anyone else!]]> http://www.last.fm/user/thesaltydog/journal/2008/03/01/8ylss_lolgig_290208_%5Brbf,_sm,_sbs%5D Sat, 1 Mar 2008 13:02:06 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/thesaltydog/journal/2008/03/01/8ylss_lolgig_290208_%5Brbf,_sm,_sbs%5D Sat 1 Mar – Reel Big Fish, Streetlight Manifesto, Sonic Boom Six

Well, it wasnt as good as I thought it would be, but I wasnt generally sure how it was going to be anyway. I still had a good time.

Sonic Boom Six - I turned up too late to catch them unfortunately =(

Streetlight Manifesto - They were great, was a fucking EFFORT to skank though, people just wanted to push. So I helped.

Reel Big Fish - I got really tired in the crowd for this. Whether thats because I'm unfit, iono, but I had to go and grab a Red Bull about half way through =P They played tons of songs, including The Many Versions of S.R. which was loltastic, and The Set Up (My fav song), also ended with Take On Me (Another great song). Oh yeah, and the cover of Enter Sandman was brilliant. =D

There were SO MANY crowdsurfers! =O I wanted to myself, but I was skins after hiding my shirt under a bench and my pants were dangerously close to falling down. xD

Maybe it just wasnt my kind of gig, I dunno, but I just kept wanting to mosh, but then I remembered it was a ska punk gig. *shrug* I'd definitely see them again though, hopefully they'd play the Academy though; the crowd was too cramped at the Keller and there wasnt much of a view.

Overall, I'd give it a 7/10.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/thesaltydog/journal/2008/02/23/8ylph_lolgig_220208 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:46:06 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/thesaltydog/journal/2008/02/23/8ylph_lolgig_220208 Fri 22 Feb – The Dillinger Escape Plan, Between the Buried and Me, Stolen Babies

Stolen Babies = lolerriffic, also I kept getting hit by drumsticks. I THOUGHT they were good.

BTBAM = Not really my sorta shit, also i was dying for a wee, so I ran out 20 minutes into the million minute song.

Dillinger = Well, they were great. I cant lie on my left anymore, and my fists were bleeding from punching, but it was loltastic. Only shit bit was the faggy guitarist doing a crowdsurf for like, one row.

But yeah, it was probably one of the best gigs I've been to.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/thesaltydog/journal/2007/04/20/8yloc_how_varied_is_your_music_taste%3F_(look_this_ones_different!!!) Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:15:57 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/thesaltydog/journal/2007/04/20/8yloc_how_varied_is_your_music_taste%3F_(look_this_ones_different!!!) Nah its not really, but I made you look didnt I =) Ah well, first entry, what the hell were you expecting?! I didnt link all those bottom ones mind, cos ill be EVERYWHERE otherwise.

First, make a list of your top-20 artists overall. Then, for each of these artists, add the 8 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, count up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 160 represents an extremely varied one.

Top 20
System of a Down
Reel Big Fish
Children of Bodom
Pig Destroyer
Anal Cunt
Breaking Benjamin
Napalm Death
Carcass
Fear Factory
Static-X
Sevendust
Gwar
All That Remains
Buckcherry
Lamb of God
Deftones
Carpathian Forest
Behemoth
Lordi
Disturbed

Similar Artists
1349
A Perfect Circle
Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Amon Amarth
Anal Blast
Anthrax
Arch Enemy
As I Lay Dying
Bleeding Through
Cannibal Corpse
Catch 22
Cephalic Carnage
Chevelle
Chimaira
Circle of Dead Children
Cold
Cradle of Flith
Crossfade
Cryptopsy
Dark Tranquility
Darkthrone
Death
Deicide
Dimmu Borgir
Discordance Axis
Drowning Pool
Dying Fetus
Emperor
Eve 6
Fuck…I'm Dead
Fuel
Godsmack
Goldfinger
Gorgoroth
HammerFall
Hinder
Ill Nino
Immortal
In Flames
Incubus
Iron Maiden
It Dies Today
Killswitch Engage
Korn
Less Than Jake
Machine Head
Mad Caddies
Marduk
Mayhem
Megadeth
Metallica
Misfits
Morbid Angel
Mudvayne
Nasum
Nattefrost
Nickelback
Nightwish
Nile
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
NOFX
Nonpoint
Obituary
Pantera
Papa Roach
Rage Against The Machine
Rammstein
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rob Zombie
Satyricon
Seether
Sepultura
Shadows Fall
Shinedown
Slayer
Slipknot
Sonata Arctica
Soulfly
Staind
Strapping Young Lad
Streetlight Manifesto
Suffocation
Taproot
Team Sleep
The Aquabats
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
The Offspring
The Red Chord
Three Days Grace
Tool
Trapt
Trivium
Unearth
Vader
Total:95 - Not too bad, I expected higher tbh.]]>