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[misterdale]

Motorheadache + Blackened
Friday 9th December
The Lemon Tree
Tickets £9 (£6 concessions & Regulars)
Doors Open: 8.30pm | onstage: 9.30pm

Motorheadache is the classic three piece band with lifelong Motorhead fan Rob on Rickenbacker bass and growling vocals. The band's setlist centres on classic songs from the 1978 to 1983 era, but also includes a range of later material plus many of Lemmy's more eclectic - and eccentric - collaborations and covers including AC/DC, Metallica, Rolling Stones, Ozzy, Probot, Twisted Sister, Queen and the Sex Pistols to name a few...

The UK's finest Metallica tribute, Blackened, make it an unmissable night for anyone who likes their rock hard and heavy.
details of gig

[Tav]

Originally Posted by misterdale

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The UK's finest Metallica tribute, Blackened, make it an unmissable night for anyone who likes their rock hard and heavy.

Finest...that's a big crock of you know what!

I don't normally lay into bands on boards as I think it can be harsh (and I know what its like to be on the receiving end) but my word! For a start it was £9 for 2 bands! I didn't even stay to see Motorheadache as Blackend gave me a bloody headache! I've never been charged so much for such a poor performance. Its something you would expect from a bunch of 14 year olds playing a school talent show...not a touring tribute band claiming to be the UK's finest...infact one of the bands at this years school show did a rendition of Fuel and Enter Sandman that was far superior <abliet they are all leavers and are 18/19 but still!>

Main gripes and you have to remember these only really annoy me because of the price of the gig and the claims:

The songs were poorly played. Out of time with a lot of incorrect parts. I don't think one solo was nailed even remotely correctly all night. Singer really did sound like a karaoke/comedy attempt at James and spoke in this weird false metal/manly voice all night...that just plain weirded me out "arrrrr are ye all fucking having some fucking fucked up fun...fuck fuck etc etc etc...". Drummer used standard 4/4 beats for most of the songs and rarely touched on anything Lars would do. £1000's of gear on stage. American P-Bass, Hartke Bass Stack, what looked like a very substantial VHT guitar rig and lastly a 7 or 8 piece drum kit...all looked very professional...

You really need to forget the expensive gear and go and learn the songs properly...be able to nail the solos or at least improvise convincingly! Pantellica were MUCH better when they played Lava a few years back...and anyone remember Metal Militia? Perhaps you could get some playing tips from the then 15 year old Gregor. I think you need to remember that when you are a tribute bands you are going attract people who are fans of the band. Even those who don't play instruments would see through this performance.

My 3 metallica-liking friends all feel the same way and the two which weren't really Metallica fans ended up leaving after 2 songs.

I am just so annoyed now that I wasted my night when I could have been doing something more constructive...and still have £9!!! That's almost 2hrs at work for me! GAH!

Apologies if I offended any one but damn!

[Mouse]

I've got to be honest and say I've not seen a bad tribute band, but Blackened weren't that good. I ain't gonna be as harsh as Tav: The singer was ok and he could play guitar, but we couldn't hear the bassist, the drumming was slow and the lead guitarist was total out of time and didn't play half the solos right. Half of the songs were even missed out, Am I Evil for example. Occasionally some good bits shone through, but it was so bad at one point we couldn't stop laughing

[The Ghost Of Fudge]

i enjoyed the dj. and 'lemmy' was quite good, although the set was a bit weird.

[Smooth_groover]

I was about to write a responce to this thread saying "fuck, I can't believe I missed it"

But judging by the above comments, I'm glad I did!

[Tav]

I wish I had missed it...really I do.

[blackened]

Originally Posted by Tav

I wish I had missed it...really I do.

I wish you had missed it too!

I was actually quite shocked by these comments, as the response and comments we got at the venue were totally far away from these garbled rantings.

Look, you are entitled to your opinion - as is everyone, most of the time - but I don't see why you have such a vendetta against us! I was surprised at the ticket price, and apologies for expectations were raised, but this price is set by the venue, and not by us!

We admit there were hiccups in the set, attributed to problems with onstage monitoring, smoke machine cutting out my guitar, but we went out there to have fun, play some metal, and I believe the bulk of the crowd were happy and showed it! If some people wanna just stand at the back and bitch about the solos not being just quite right, then we can't help that - we can't please everyone!

We came offstage and mingled with the crowd once we played, and there were plenty of people who came up to us, with excellent comments of appreciation.

We also don't claim to be the UK's finest Metallica tribute! This is the opinion of Rob of Motorheadache, who was happy to let us support them. I believe with tribute bands, there is an issue of compromise to a certain extent - we aim to reproduce the stuff as faithfully as we can, but we also want to give a performance, and not just stand there solely concentrating on our instruments without looking out into the crowd.

If all you want to do is nit-pick then be my guest, but you won't really achieve anything with unconstructive criticism. If you're in a band, especially a tribute band, then you know you can't please everyone. With Metallica fans, you get the ones who play guitar who want to debate the ass off a solo, you get the old-school fans who moan if you play Sad But True, you get the younger fans who bitch if we don't play St. Anger material. We just go out there and do what we do, and our impression we got from the Lemon Tree crowd was that the majority of people there were well into it, and with us all the way!!!

If you don't like it, then I don't see what we are supposed to do about it. Anyway, thanks to your comments, I don't think we'll be invited back to the Lemon Tree, which is a shame because we had a great time, only managing to break-even once we took into account the costs of travelling 400 miles and back to play a one-hour set.

In response to specific comments - we only "play bit of songs" - have you ever seen Metallica live, or seen the videos? They experiment, improvise, do medleys off stuff themselves! Also, considering we played for just an hour, give us a fucking break!

Also, about the 4/4 drumming? That is just fucking bollocks! You can't do the instrumental bit of Blackened in 4/4 - open your ears man! We have the drum-tab book - we know!

As I said before, we were well-looking forward to coming back there and doing another show, then you could get a proper impression of what we are about. Unfortunately though, due to your bitching and moaning, this is in doubt. If we did come back, I think it would be best if you saved your hard-earned pennies, and just went and bought the CD.

Goddamnit it just goes to show you can't please everyone!

[The Ghost Of Fudge]

Originally Posted by blackened

we were well-looking forward to coming back there and doing another show, then you could get a proper impression of what we are about. Unfortunately though, due to your bitching and moaning, this is in doubt.

to be fair, i don't think the Lemon Tree really look to Tav or Mouse for booking advice

[misterdale]

Originally Posted by Mouse

we couldn't hear the bassist

Just like the 'And Justice for All' album then!

[Jamie]

Originally Posted by The Ghost Of Fudge

to be fair, i don't think the Lemon Tree really look to Tav or Mouse for booking advice

We do care what customers think though, and keep tabs on this forum.