FEBRUARY
5TH – CHIODOS/Exit Ten – Academy 3, Manchester
13th – FIGHTSTAR/Exit Ten – Rio’s, Leeds
20th – ALESTORM/The Red Shift/Skull Branded Pirates – Oliver’s Bar, Ashton
28th – ADEBISI SHANK/BLAKFISH/Pulled Apart By Horses – Royal Park Cellars, Leeds
A lot of the gigs I go to, my daughter comes along with me, and whenever EXIT TEN are in the area, we will always make a point of being there. They were the main support at the first two gigs of the month and turned in their usual, tight-as-a-nut performances. CHIODOS were a new one on me though, but we both came out of the show as fans – a really great hi-energy show and a fine front man in Craig Owens (Who was fired from the band later in the year). FIGHTSTAR have come on in leaps and bounds in recent times and the packed crowd at Rio’s were lapping it up.
The good ship ALESTORM decided to dock at Ashton again following last years successful night of pillagin’ n plunderin’. Fellow ‘Wolves Of The Sea’ SKULL BRANDED PIRATES opened proceedings with a piratey version of The Police’s ‘Message In A Bottle’ but overall, this one didn’t quite match last years show though.
There was a fine triple headed bill to finish the month off in the claustrophobic confines of Leeds’ Royal Park Cellars (It is, literally, the cellar of a pub!). PULLED APART BY HORSES fuzzed out heavy riffage got everyone warmed up but then BLAKFISH kind of let the air out of the room by playing a set almost exclusively full of songs from their just recorded new album that no one knew –good, but they maybe should have mixed it up a bit more. Not to worry Irish mentalists ADEBESI SHANK were on hand to round the night out in their own, very unique angular, guitar driven style.
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