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Live Review
by SashaS
27-2-2003
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| Corey Taylor of StoneSoar conducts chaos |
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Live: StoneSour
Astoria, London
Wednesday, February 26, 2003
StoneSour’s chaos of hormonal deranging
Gloomily intoned intro sets the mood for the StoneSour’s live debut in the capital and, from the moment they step onstage – electrifying all the way through! The Corey Taylor parallel-to-Slipknot outfit is taking care of business from the first James Root’s riff-firing and it gets to the level of intensity that the two’s home-band usually serves.
No guessing needed that the downstairs is instantly transformed into one huge moshpit that gets stuck in the overdrive, lapping up every word, screaming along, giving it all in. Total chaos of hormonal derangement! The stage is bare, there are no props, not even a banner with the band’s logo… This is rock, basic, loud, pile-driving, punching-a-hole-in-your-chest-to-grab-your-spirit kinda musical offering. ‘Get Inside’, ‘Take A Number’, ‘Blotter’, ‘Tumult’, simply power-roll over the adoring fans.
The six-strong band concentrates on the rockier side of the first album ‘StoneSour’ – they also performed a song that is not on the album but the title seemed to escape most hearings as Taylor warped pronunciation - to the detriment of the slower, more melodic and emo-side of the man’s creativity. Less display of the album’s eclectism defies the object of the project that was to showcases Taylor’s musical versatility, range of songs, vocal ability and the darkness he picked up from/shares with Alice In Chain.
Perhaps the venue was wrong for performing songs such as ‘Bother’, to take the pace down, these are kids who have a problem making it ’14-year-age-limit’… There were a lot of girls – many more than at a Slipknot show – that is a very encouraging sign as StoneSour’s music should be attractive to the babettes who all happily joined in constant headbanging alongside Taylor.
There was some non-musical entertainment, as well: Taylor holding up Gareth Gates’s poster and enquiring what that is all about to the delight of the supporters who went into pish-meself delight when he ripped it into pieces. Well, this is a converted congregation and this “disease of the planet” (as he called it) stops at Dover… Isn’t Bushism more lethal…?
Anyway, he also found a moment to address the critics in certain terms to the ovation of fans. I was luckily standing at the balcony – which he also dissed few times for “observing” rather than getting off it as much as the moshers – and felt peculiar for a moment… If I were downstairs with my notebook, my safety could have been compromised! (Sure, you are a war correspondent! – Sarcy Ed.)
Yeah, these 2000 souls were that pumped up, that hostile, that ready to confront! Despite of feeling unjustly bashed by Corey – not all critics are the same, mate – the gig was a corker. The only thing that bothered was the heat generated by so many young bods around releasing tonnes of frustrated and repressed sexual energy…
StoneSour show provided a potent substitute.
SashaS
27-2-2003
StoneSour album ‘StoneSour’ is available now on Roadrunner
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