GIG: Resistanz Festival: Saturday (Sheffield)

I umm'd and ahh'd about going to Resistanz for months, and then when the schedule was finally announced I decided that I was definitely going to go on Saturday and Sunday. Overall I thought the line up was a bit weak, with the headliners being a bit, well not exactly big names in the scene. Still, it worked out well for me being able to see the bands I wanted to see and leaving early.
Bizarrely though, turning up to the regular door left me confused, as it was locked. It was only after wandering aimlessly around the block that I found a back door and made my way inside.

Mental Discipline were a bit of an after thought for me, but I thought I might as well get there a bit earlier and see them. When I arrived they were already on stage but I don't think I missed much. They are a bit too poppy really, a bit too 'club' sounding. They are okay, but nothing special.
As I watched them I realised there was a very tall man standing next to me in a pink rubber dress. It was perhaps the oddest sight I saw all evening, which at Resistanz is quite an achievement (there was also a guy with a beak mask, and body armour...)

This was my second time seeing Advance, after catching him supporting Ayria last year I was keen to see him again and he wasn't to disappoint. Technical gremlins affected the first track, with Tom's laptop cutting out several times, but thankfully after that it seemed okay. We only really got a couple of songs from the album, plus a remixed version of Dead Machinery, then several tracks from samplers and a brand new track from the planned second album. The crowd was very responsive and despite the obvious stress of his machinery not playing ball, Tom looked pretty happy by the end of the set.

When I first heard RTR I wasn't too sure I liked them, but then they grew on me steadily right up to advent of Resistanz, to the point where they were the band I most wanted to see. They certainly got an outstanding reaction from the crowd! Once again technical gremlins were in evidence though, not least the shittiest guitar sound ever and the vocals being buried in the mix. After the first couple of songs things leveled out and it was all good, at least until the sound went completely during 'Fvck the Universe'. Earlier in the day I had remarked to Rose that the female singer looked quite a bit older than you would expect and indeed, it turns out she is indeed Fillip's mother!

Was quite pleased to get the physical CD of RTR's album and the Nitro/Noise album from the DWA stall at Resistanz.

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