So tonight...

[cheezwizard27]

So Tom and I decided a while ago to catch Cyanotic on their "Fix the Glitch" tour when it came through New Brunswick. It was to be held at this place called "the Killing Centre", which was the only venue listed that had no website or references on the internet or even a clear starting time. But hey, what have we got to lose? so we went down to New Brunswick and I drive past the address and we see no killing centre. We park and walk to the address and promptly found out why there was no website. It's someone's house. This show was being held in their basement. Underground bands indeed! We are welcomed in quite warmly, although the guy who owned the house and seemingly everyone else was very surprised anyone they didn't know actually showed up, and we hang around for a while in the basement, waiting for the fun to start. It was a very cool atmosphere. At around 8:30 the first band starts, and I'm pretty sure they were comprised of one of the guys who owns the house and his girlfriend. They sucked a lot, I think this woman was trying to sing Nightwish over industrial music. Her microphone went out a couple times, which I guess is technical difficulty but it improved their sound. Also the bass was way way too loud. As in the singer's voice was being shaken by it, as were all of us. All 15 of the people who were there. Also there were no lights on. The only reason I could see them was because they had a laptop open. After a little setup time, Panzer Division started, and they were pretty awesome. Didn't buy their CD, but I enjoyed the performance. They had some minor sample malfunctions. After a longer wait, Mindflux Funeral started. They were awesome. So much energy. So much bass. Fun stuff. Singer's mic went out a number of times. After a setup time of like 10 seconds (since the same drummer played in both bands), Cyanotic came on, and started tearing up the place. The lead singer guy introduced the band and talked to the audience (now like 6 people) in an Arnold accent. The music was great, his mic died quite a few times, but that was fixed soon. The keyboardist...I don't know what he was doing. He was completely smashed and fell over, and in the process of this, in the middle of a song, all the power went out. They gradually got some stuff back online, but then they couldn't play their background tracks at all. We all waited around for a long time while they tried to fix it, and eventually they did, and they continued the song. It happened again, and the sample guy threw his mixing board on the ground. Didn't smash it though. Eventually they got it working again, finished the song, and started another one. It happened again. By now it's around midnight, and they gave up. It was an awesome experience, in a weird house(they had no regular lights. There was a blue one, a red one, and a green one. In the main house, not by the bands. There was no light by the bands, except a few strobes which they brought with them.) Man, I'm part of an underground scene now. This was totally worth the $5 I paid to get in, even with all the technical difficulties. Oh, I also bought some CDs. 'Twas a good night.

Read Tom's entry to get a fuller idea of what the show was like.