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Live Review
by SashaS
11-2-2002
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Live: Lostprophets
Astoria, London
Sunday, February 10, 2002
Andrew WK shouldn’t have topped the NME Carling Awards Tour
The travelling part of the NME Carling Awards finally reaches London and it is obvious for whom the kids have come and they didn’t disappoint by tearing the house down from the main support slot. Lostprophets are the darlings of the indie kids now and it is very easy to see why. They rock in the best nu-metal tradition but with a Brit-twist. They are raw, exciting and ready to conquer you from the opening ‘Kobrakai’.
The sixsome from Pontypridd look fresh and really are going for some hi-NRG rocking. They take no half-measures in delivering huge sounds that help pump such profusion of adrenaline you can almost smell it! Despite the singer Ian Watkins keeping company to the bassdrum a bit too much, it allows more room for two guitarists to be on equal frontal footing. The rhythm just drills in, deeper and deeper, taking you away from ‘The Fake Sound Of Progress’, their debut album’s title warns you about.
They play a new song without naming it but it is the previous single, ‘Shinobia vs. Dragon Ninja’ that witnesses the sea of bodies fly every which way. The true stars of the evening! The band that preceded them, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, failed to engage the same gland in spite of playing an impressive show.
They ignite the mosh only ones, with the concluding song, ‘Whatever Happened To My Rock’n’Roll (Punk Song)’, that really got everyone onto the same riffage. Otherwise, BRBC’s a dark sonic wall of the stoner kind really requires public less keen on bumping each other and crowd surfing. The band sounds tight in spite of having a temporary drummer: their regular skinsman’s got a visa problem so the former Verve-man, Pete Salisbury, has stepped in.
The opening act, The Coral, dissed the headliner during the tour but they shouldn’t be talking Herculean. Still, they are young which accounts for their trespassing so many genres without finding one they can truly handle.
But they were right: Andrew WK shouldn’t have headlined because he is a false rock prophet.
SashaS
11-2-2002
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