O2 Academy2 Birmingham data and concert informations

Without a doubt the best show I've ever been to. RX Bandits and Circa Survive took what they did on their records and brought more energy to it all flawlessly. From Indian Lakes were new to me but they sounded fantastic and they've got themselves a new fan because of it.

This gig/concert was absolutely phenomenal. As always, MCS absolutely killed it and where incredible in every sense of the word, amazing singing, great music and amazing between song banter.
The support band weren't great in my opinion, but that's probably because I just wanted to get to MCS. all in all, I will go see them again as soon as they are in England, entire recommendation.

You guys were brilliant
Look forward to seeing you again
Break on through

Idiom, while not my cup of tea, played with good energy and were a great opening act. Their singer in particular did a good job of warming up the crowd. I had not seen or heard Heart Of A Coward before and I was pleasantly surprised, I well definitely be buying an album of theirs in the near future. Now on to Sikth:

Their sound man was apparently deaf, which is hardly surprising given the utterly incredible volumes that he insisted on pushing the bass frequencies up to. It was physically painful to listen to and drowned out pretty much everything except the most raucous of screams from Mikee.

It would seem that a week of touring is just about enough to destroy Justin Hill’s voice. He was struggling throughout the set to hit the high notes; he took a stab at Peep Show but was mainly held up by the crowd rather than his own ability. By the end he had pretty much just given up; half-heartedly throwing in a few lines here and there.

Highlights included the unexpected performance of the first half of When Will The Forest Speak…, which I never thought I would see live, and a blinding version of Hold My Finger.

Definite lowlight: Pussyfoot. Apparently Dan Foord has forgotten this song, despite playing every night for over a week. He managed to come in a bar and a half early, completely stop in the middle for no apparent reason and generally failed to play in time. This pretty much threw everybody else off their game and consequently resulted in Justin Hill actually apologising on stage for the mutilation. He blamed it on “technical issues”.

I guess my overall experience was not aided by my anticipation, I remember them so fondly and having been told how tight they were only a week ago, I was expecting incredible things. Alas, it was not to be.

Great show tonight, Chevelle. Maybe not as big a crowd as you're used to in the States but it was definitely their loss. I also really enjoyed LTNT and Black Map. Hope you guys can come back to the UK sometime.