[GIG] Triptych: Magik Markers + Human Bell + The Kitchen Cynics @ The Tunnels

[Dave]

I enjoyed all three bands, but I left feeling a bit short-changed because I knew Magik Markers had a lot more to offer. They should have played a longer, more focused set, what they gave us seemed like a warm-up.

The night would have worked better if the bill had been turned upside-down, so we could have had a nice noisy start with the MM's, and the Kitchen Cynics could have spread their wings at the end of the night. No offence to the DJ who was doing the clubnight afterwards, but I felt the 11pm curfew put a damper on proceedings and all the bands should have had more time to do their thing.

[His Majesty]

Originally Posted by idol_wild

Who'd have figured Chris Moyles was so talented?

[Graeme]

Gigs resulting in a diversity of opinions are much more fun.

[french_disko]

I thought MM werre astounding, the waves of noise had me trnsfixed. Absolutely amazing.

Found Human Bell a bit boring - bit repetitive and almost like it never got started.

Kitchen Cynics was great as usual. Cheers for the Panini stickers, Alan!

[His Majesty]

Originally Posted by french_disko

I thought MM werre astounding, the waves of noise had me trnsfixed. Absolutely amazing.

Mic up a cement mixer and a seagull crying and put it through a distorted amp and then play the drums along to it and you'll achieve the same sound.

[Twojoe]

*heads for plant hire business and will then send email to IMP*

[Graeme]

Originally Posted by His Majesty

Mic up a cement mixer and a seagull crying and put it through a distorted amp and then play the drums along to it and you'll achieve the same sound.

But it wouldn't have the same moves!

[chilli]

Originally Posted by His Majesty

Mic up a cement mixer and a seagull crying and put it through a distorted amp and then play the drums along to it and you'll achieve the same sound.

Faust do stuff like that, never stopped them becoming seminal, influential etc

HM, yes I was stressed because of the fucking shit b4 doors, but a few factors should be taken into consideration:-

both HB & MM were playing Nottingham the night b4 & travelled up
on Friday arriving late & 4 out the 5 playing were TOUR ILL with various bugs & @ one point I was told MM maybe wouldn't play
& wanted to go to their hotel instead, having cajoled them into not doing so, they decided they would do a sound check & after not doing so the night b4, hence the overrun & the Cynics not getting one. Also many of the delays were caused by HB techie problems because of knackered European to UK plugs (thanks Mark).

At the end of the day I would rather put on something that causes discussion, derision, devision, blatant attacks or glorious comments, than put on something that was NICE & instanly forgettable.........

I remember when Josephine Foster played with Tarpus Tula (David Keenan & his girlfriend) & that caused a storm of division & outcry. At least is got a reaction!!!!!!!!!!!

Judging the messages above this is a similar type event & loads of people I spoke to loved the show & some didn't (mainly on here)

All i an do is apologise to those who felt shortchanged & especially to the members of The Kitchen Cynics Orchestra (Alan was emailed on Sat morning) for the shortfall of our usually decent standards of event promotion...............

Mike

[His Majesty]

Erk, with all that, I'm amazed the night went ahead at all, well done for pulling it off and of course good on the bands for getting up on stage!

[offramp]

Originally Posted by Dave

I enjoyed all three bands, but I left feeling a bit short-changed because I knew Magik Markers had a lot more to offer. They should have played a longer, more focused set, what they gave us seemed like a warm-up.

The night would have worked better if the bill had been turned upside-down, so we could have had a nice noisy start with the MM's, and the Kitchen Cynics could have spread their wings at the end of the night. No offence to the DJ who was doing the clubnight afterwards, but I felt the 11pm curfew put a damper on proceedings and all the bands should have had more time to do their thing.

I think the 11pm curfew does hurt the gig in terms of flexibility, organisation and freedom of expression - but those are the rules laid down by The Tunnels and we have to accept that.

I think the gig could have been better if MM had time to carry on. They certainly wanted to go on for longer...

Personally, I didn't overly enjoy the MM set because, as Dave mentioned, I thought they had more to give (and they gave a bit more in Glasgow on Saturday, albeit with similar time restrictions...)