The Sisters of No-Mercy for Asthmatics

[anarchangel23]

Sisters of Mercy and Hypernova at "The Music Box at The Fonda"*

The short version: Mixed. I'm conflicted.

The long version:
Hypernova
I about four metres from the front nearly directly in front of the left hand speaker stack. This Iranian five piece** are the money. The money. If you saw Luger Boa support Shihad this year, this is the kind of

Comments

[hafwit]

Thanks for the review! :-)

[anarchangel23]

No problem! I hope you enjoyed it!

[hafwit]

I really did. It was very good and detailed.

[anarchangel23]

Thanks! I realised this morning that I hadn't really described the visuals, so I fixed that.

[jwm]

Definitely sounds like the sound engineer was asleep at the wheel.

Best gig I've been to was Portishead in the town hall. They tour with the same sound engineer who mixes their albums, so it sounded awesome.

Everything else kind of grades down from their until you get to the time I saw Minuit play in the UCR one Orientation, at which point you've got a shit venue with an indifferent sound tech mixing for an audience who's too young to know better and too drunk to care. And it really takes some impressive anti-talent to screw up the sound for a band when all you have to do is mic up one vocalist, and everything else plugs straight into the sound desk.

Still, The Sisters of Fucking Mercy, man. There's a band I'd travel to see.

[leidan]

If that is the Portishead gig I am thinking of it was amazing, probably helped by the fact that the whole Town Hall got hot-boxed.

Worst would be at the UCLA too, with a HDU gig that was in the ballroom with 3 of us (I think it was the previous band that said hi to the people who weren't their mums or sleeping with them). It was unlistenable from inside the ballroom and barely better outside. It was when they were doing stuff that relied on very well timed feedback and audio shenanigans and it was shit.

LA crowds usually seem to suck, it's more about being seen at the gig that seeing the gig. Cat and I had someone talk (and sing off key) all through a Tori Amos gig and when she said something about it at the end I had her jock boyfriend attempt to beat me up.

Though there was a few good LA gigs there was a Tool gig at the Pond in Anaheim where people set the mosh pit on fire and jumped across the bonfires was fun, though that was mostly because Tool took so fucking long to play anything that we all got bored.

[anarchangel23]

Ha! My only point of comparison so far is VNV Nation which was definitely a better crowd but was helped by a very energetic frontman, which Eldritch is not. Full marks to the rhythm guitar guy's jumping around and the lead guitarists solo-wank posing.

[anarchangel23]

Yeah, it was pretty fucking cool. Fortunately I didn't really have to travel: five minute walk to the Metro, five minute train ride to Hollywood and Vine, one minute walk to the music box (aaaaand a twenty minute wait at the Metro station, but that was my timing). If you ever feel the desire to fly across the pacific to see them, I have a couch. :)

I remember you talking about that Minuit gig. Now, there's a band that's grown on me. Do they have a second album yet?

(I edited the visuals paragraph, btw.)