Senser & Soul Destruction
Having nearly had my foot broken at Judo on Thursday night I strapped my left extremity up in my old German army boots and drove the posse to nearby Camberley. I’d been looking forward to this gig for weeks, the first time I’d seen a band down The Agincourt in 20 years! Last time it was The Sweet and the place was absolutely rammed. This time the bill included Tainted Grace, Primitai and of course the mighty Soul Destruction with Senser topping the bill.
Tainted Grace? Well, not my cup of emo/goth tea, sort of like Evanescence, but they’re from Farnborough so I’ll not hear a bad word against them (quiet, Becky)
Primitai? Musically very good, old skool metal but flying-V style guitars look so friggin’ uncomfortable to play in anything other than the upright “my guitar is my penis” style. Seriously though, Primitai were good, and being local lads I’m sure we will see them again soon. OK, Becky won’t, I will 
Soul Destruction. We love ‘em. Except tonight something was amiss, not their best gig. Whether it was nerves or what, I don’t know, but the sound was a bit ropey on all but a handful of songs. When the mixing desk got it right, the sound was superb, but otherwise it was not a patch on their West End Centre gig where we took our 6 year old along 
Senser. Man, they took me back to the nineties but they’re still SO relevant today. Soundwise it was right, they were tight, but why was the guitar drowned so much? They played their classic tracks like Age of Panic, Switch, States of Mind for the old-skool crowd but I was disappointed there was no Return to Zombie Island or Bomb Factories. Overall they seemd to have a really good live dance beat but lacked the visciousness that the guitar work can often add.
Yeah, that’ll do. Good gig. Could do without the tinnitus though
Sounds like a fun evening. Glad you didn’t break your foot. Didn’t know you did Judo, I used to do Aikido. When I visit one of these days we’ll have a romp!
Narthex: It was indeed good, ears are *still* ringing though
Yeah, just started judo after dropping out of karate a couple of years back when i had that bike accident and damaged my knee & broke a rib or two. Aikido is a very good martial art, how far did you go with it?
well good! i’m glad you’re taking your six year old on these excursions. maybe she’ll end up with good taste in music. my niece on the other hand, is headed for a life of Little Miss Whatever pageants, too much make up and an affinity for butt rock and bands like Nickelback. It makes me very sad for humanity.
you guys though, are the coolest.
Rebekah: *snort* I swear we spoke at length about butt rock some other time but I’m butt rocked if I can find it around this site anywhere (despite the handiest of google operators) but anyway, yeah, cheers mate
Yeah, NoNo got *well* into Soul Destruction and dances to any rock I play from the laptop and also reminds me that I should be stringing her guitar for her… (it’s an old one of mine and it’s crap, but it’s better than the kiddie one she’s got that you couldn’t tune if your wife depended on it. Did I say wife? I meant life.
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She’d better end up with good taste in music, or else all this girlie pop would make me hurl…
How’re you doing? Getting your own booty down to and (butt) rock gigs of late or does WY still have more snow than music?
Oh, I did not take the Aikido as far as I’d like. It was actually long ago and I paused because I was in a car accident–got hit by a car and did the best roll I’ve ever done. I took time off because of it and never resumed though I learned enough that an intuition was imprinted into me. Later, when I started rock climbing, I found that my climbing technique was very much guided by Aikido technique. I’ve been thinking about getting back into Aiki again.
Narthex: How about that then, we both gave up martial arts for accident reasons! LOL
You should definitely get back into Aikido again, I found that karate gave me a lot of stamina and power that I found most useful when I went mountain biking… rock climbing I haven’t done in years and probably not to the degree you’ve done it
Yeah, do it
um yeah WY has more snow than ANYTHING. did i mention i have decided that living here means i’ve stumbled upon some circle of hell that’s reserved for really rotten people? that’s the only reason i can think of as to why i’ve ended up here for such and extended period of time. i’ve really died and gone to the worst part of hell.
otherwise, i’m fine!
same ol’ same ol’. 
p.s. i bet the kidlet plays better guitar than me too.
Rock climbing.. Mountain Biking, Akido???
The most I can manage is getting out of my seat and walking to the back door for a smoke. Of course when I move in to my own place next month I can reduce that to lifting my arm to take a drag!
Who was it who said “whenever I think about exercise I sit down until the feeling passes.” ?
Whoever it was I couldn’t have put it better myself.
Regarding Tinitus. I heard something on the radio this week, some government official recomending that we all wear earplugs for clubbing and listening to gigs. SERIOUSLY?
I always felt like I’d been to a really good gig if my ears were still ringinging three days later.
How much more of this Nanny State crap do we have to take?
NEW Taxes for the privalige of smoking (on top of the 4quid a pack we already pay), new Taxes on fatty foods and processed foods.
What next??? Taxes for the privilege of staying up after 10pm?
I remember my doc warning me that I could loose three or four years off my life if I didn’t cut down on the caffine, smoking and get a bit more than 4 hours sleep a night. I remember telling him that if you count up the the time I would lose sleeping I’d probly gain no extra time in fact I’d just be saving it up for when I was too old to enjoy it.
I just did the math to check this and I was right (as usual!).
If I did as he said and slept 8 to 10 hours instead of 4 to 6 it amounts to 60 days a year..(thats 4 hours a night extra sleep 365 days a year) Over the 50 years of my adult life expectancy, I would loose 8 years just by sleeping!
Yep I’ll enjoy the time while I’m young(ish).
And now that I’ve blabbered on in a feeble attempt to justify my bad habits and lazyness I’ll get back to work. (Procrastination is another of my more major excercise regiems).
Bye 4 now
children + concert = (in theory) a very good thing.
Getting them trained early so they know how to do it, ensuring the poprot doesn’t have a chance to set into their tiny minds and so on. Good. But apparently seeing your mother losing it a bit in a frenzy of music appreciation can affect future relations. I took my daughter to see NIN and Apocalyptica and her respect for me seems to have diminished a little. I think words like ‘embarrassing’ might have been used too. I’m just saying, be careful
Rebekah: How about the Brits come to visit and liven up WY with tales of… er… sunshine? Yeah, we have sun today, in fact we have 2 days of it and it’s rather warm too. Not a drop of the old wet stuff in sight either, and that includes no tea!
We’ll get you and Noe doing a duet methinks…
Keithlightwaver: That quote’s from Robert Hutchins I think, the American philosopher/writer/academic. He had a few good observations on the fact that universities were little more than glorified baby-sitting services to keep kids off the streets. His quote’s in the same vein as the “golf is a good walk spoiled” remark from Mark Twain. Both excellent.
I have to admit… my ears are still ringing now… 4 days later! That’s got to be a record. Maybe this time it’s permanent and I’m a bit mutton geoff as it is anyway, pardon?
And talking of taxes I just paid GBP101 (sorry, I’m on the American laptop right now) for 6 months’ road tax! LOL @ taxes for staying up after 10pm… I’d double them if anyone’s caught after 10pm drinking lager, and I mean at anytime after 10pm on Christmas Eve 2007, so that should catch a few of the buggers!
I like your live slow die young philosophy… I too have a 4-6 hour sleep pattern but I don’t smoke… I reckon I’m ill because I don’t drink enough anymore and my brain’s complaining… if this does knock a few years off my life then as long as it happens before I pay off my credit card, those buggers have got it coming to them!
Procrastination? What procrastination?
Mimey: It is and littl’un had her earplugs in
Yeah, poprot it is. Good term, mimey.
Hah, your girl went with you to NiN? Awesome! So what did you do to embarrass the “little” mite then, aye? Don’t tell me you got drunk and danced on the speakers, aye? LOL
Yeah, I’ll be careful, especially seeing as I have to drive most of the time… she hasn’t seen me drunk nor drunk at a gig, so that’s alright… for now
Sounds like a good un, says he, never having heard of them before! Tis definitely a sign of getting older, the ear ringing seems to be inversely proportional to the PA speaker size, which are definitely less imposing than the huge bins of the 70′s
Brom: They’re all well worth checking out, Brom… well OK, most of ‘em
I think modern speakers are definitely different, especially with neoprene bits, metal cones and weird ceramics… they used to be all paper and magnets when I was a kid
But then The Rolling Stones and The Who could really tank out some volume couldn’t they?
Mind you, my bass cab gets a bit fuzzy when I wind it up…
You do judo? Never expected that.
Never heard of Senser either, sound pretty good. Like this clip of them. It’s from ‘The Word’ which brings back some memories, mostly of that annoying Terry Christian.
I wondered by some kids yesterday who were in a band, but they looked more like Poison. Is glam coming back in?
bulbboy: Yeah, I did Judo many many years ago and just started again. Used to do karate too and really fancy getting back into it, only stopped ‘cos of my bike accident back in Sep 2005.
Ah, nice link bb, I’m gonna have to reboot the old warhorse here though, ‘cos it seems to have lost all sound… weird that! The Word! Wow, memories… was more into The Tube than The Word but hey, still good
Glam coming back!?!?!? Urgh! I hated glam or any of that flouncy rock. With the way things are going these days I wouldn’t be surprised if it came back in; I’m seeing so many blokes with girly haircuts that I’m concerned for the machismo of blokekind! Hair long, short whatever is good, but all this feathered haircuts! Man, I could let loose on this new wave of boys that look like girls and condemn the lot of them to the pits of hell, but I haven’t mastered that spell yet…