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Live Review
by Tré Kodosan
13-7-2003
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| Corey Taylor of Stone Sour in vox-mode |
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Live: Weekend round-up
Various, London
Friday, July 11, 2003
Kings Of Leon, StoneSour and Murderdolls, in that order
Kings Of Leon
Mean Fiddler, London
11 July 2003
This Kings Of Leon’s smallish show is a spill over from their proper date in a theatre, Forum, played the night before. No surprise the tix were as rare as the Lottery win after all the hype the band’s received before the debut album, ‘Youth and Revivalist Rocking in Southern United States’… No? Well, that’s the spirit of it.
As mentioned in the album review, KoL are a solid band that loves everything pre-1975 and its first cousin is Credence Clearwater Revival. Nought wrong with it but, as most musical genres inspired by (well, aping) the past, it is old music for the next generation of rocking kids. So, the second concert examination leaves one pretty cold on the inside while the outside is covered in sweat by the place buzzing into oblivion.
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StoneSour
Brixton Academy, London
12 July 2003
During the week when the Slipknot news was thick and fast – from “not making another album” (Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan) to their track being implicated in a multiple-stabbing in California – the two side projects, so far unleashed, visited London and first on the bill were StoneSour. Corey Taylor’s lot has evolved, altered their sound to become more of a heavier rocking machine. The band has become tighter, effectively aggro, ferocious.
Still retaining the melody within its assault, and occasional funkiness, the songs have gained an extra edge, some new menace. And Corey’s attitude is still as venomous as ever, dedicating ‘Take A Number’ to his outfit’s dissing-media types and ‘Inhale’ to Kelly Osbourne. (Perhaps they should write a new song, entitled ‘Crap In Hell’?) ‘Monolith’ still remain a huge slab of ‘corrugated metal’ to give the show a very salubrious sheen.
Corey’s five appeared to have enjoyed themselves at this “the last gig for a while but, let me assure you, not the last ever!” (er, goodbye Slipknot, for real?), because the man himself tossed his jacket into the audience to cause a commotion over it.
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Murderdolls
Brixton Academy, London
12 July 2003
If judged on the recorded output, Murderdolls and StoneSour should never have been on the same bill because they appeared to be so different. Still, it wasn’t a major issue as the musical expressions have come closer together than originally suggested. StoneSour have shifted their attention from adoring Alice In Chains to rocking like… hardened Foo Fighters! While Murderdolls’ distant-but-close relatives are the New York Dolls.
Joey Jordison and the lads are on the outer-showbiz side that uses the template of rock cliché to create something post-rockist. Inspired by Hollywood, it is an innocuous play, often humorous, with ‘horror’ imagery. For all their projected ‘badness’ of ‘Beyond The Valley of The Murderdolls’, it is all a B-movie’s equivalent to ‘Frankenstein Jr’; or so we hope om behalf of so many U-teens, accompanied by their parents, who might not realise that ‘Slit My Wrist’, ‘Let’s Go To War’, are just like, you know, pretend, ironic, critical, for show and fun rather than something to be tried at home, school, in da ‘hood… Murderdolls are an escape rather than a way, a route to destruction.
The Jordison crew’s ‘White Wedding’ simply caused the place to drawn in excess dehydration… By the way, M-dolls would scare the ‘sugar’n’spice’ dayglow outta faux-Goths, Evanescence. But then, next to Amy Lee’s band even Green Day look like Kiss!
Tré Kodosan
13-7-2003
Kings Of Leon long-player ‘Youth And Young Man’ is available now on Handmedownrecords/BMG
StoneSour album ‘StoneSour’ is available now on Roadrunner
Murderdolls’ disc ‘Beyond The Valley of The Murderdolls’ is available now; their new single, ‘White Wedding’, is released 14 July 2003 by Roadrunner
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