--- bob_hutton@standardlife.com wrote:

> PPS can anyone post reviews of Shazam at Fireside
> Bowl, how did it compare
> to their IPO slot?


Heya Bob:  The IPO slot was better.  The boys were not
so gussied up in the rock finery, and don't know if it
was a voice issue but they didn't play the
superfantastic "Higher" from the new one, always a
highlight for me.  Most of the rest of the core of
"tomorrow the world" was represented, however (absent:
the ballads.)  They had a wee fanbase at Fireside, but
it's an odd setup for rock and I don't know if they
ever got the crowd momentum that they had at IPO even
with the late-night dwindle (admittedly, preaching to
the converted at IPO).  The Fireside, for those who
have never been there, is a shithole ("scariest
bathrooms outside Glasgow"), and while perfect for the
all-ages punkrock shows they cater to, this could be
quite a mental hurdle to overcome after opening in
front of 10,000 people or whatever the Shazam got to
do in Europe (or even, god help me, when they opened
for *Flickerstick* here - if there is anything that
more palpably demonstrates how unjust the world is
today, i cannot think of it.)

That said, they still kick more ass than anyone
around, and I am increasingly won over to the camp of
Jeremy, after seeing them initially 3 times with their
replacement guitar Greg.  What can I say? I fear
change. 

"Before there was rock/ you only had god."
D. Bowie, "Sweet Head"

--kelly
np: the sound of my tooth throbbing


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oderint dum mentuant

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