Sirus were kind of the fourth band I wanted to see, I quite like their second album and the song 'The Monster I Am' is epic (of course, they didn't play it), but Sirus was more of a bonus than the reason I was here. They came across as very aggressive and noisy, but in an oddly geeky manner. 'No Mercy' was a highlight, but the latest ep song 'L.O.I.C.' remains a mess of a song. God knows how they managed to program something so all over the place, with about six different tempos and a couple of Meshuggah-esque passages...
Seemingly inevitably, the technical gremlins made an appearance with the band left standing on stage for several minutes in silence while the crowd looked on impatiently. To their credit, once the equipment was fixed Sirus refocused effortlessly and the crowd was back on board in no time. Sirus finished their set with a slamming 'Daisy Cutter' and I left the venue and headed for the merch stand where I (and many others) picked up a digipack copy of the Sirus album before heading back to my car.
No sign of this fella today, perhaps he was recovering from heat exhaustion?
I returned (having decided to give Dirty K a miss), to find an almost completely empty hall, with the bass player and guitarist of Pre/Verse busy setting their kit up. A quartet of Germans walked past me and took up positions right in the middle of the barrier and it occurred to me that joining them would be a splendid idea. How right I was, a perfect view and a barrier to lean on for the whole 45min set, brilliant!
It was a toss up between RTR and Pre/Verse over which I was more excited about seeing, but I have to say that as I waited on the barrier I got the feeling this was going to be even better than RTR had been on the Saturday. Admittedly Pre/Verse didn't have the technical problems that RTR had, but even so they were easily the best band I saw at Resistanz 2015 and indeed this weekend overall.
Actually I listened to the Pre/Verse album on the way up as I hadn't listened to it for a while, and it surprised me all over again. But not as much as when their keyboard player when she walked out dressed like a Halloween rabbit!
Pre/Verse were fantastic, the crowd loved them and the singer was very cordial and interacted superbly with the crowd. At one point he asked where the 'people' were who had requested they play 'Black Tender' on Facebook, and when just one person raised his hands and called out, he said... "Okay, so... we're playing it for this guy!".
About half way through the set the singer (Kai) emptied several sacks of balloons into the crowd, which then spent the next ten minutes batting them about.
It was great standing right at the front and having such a great view, and I (like the rest of the crowd) was disappointed when their time was up. When I got back to the car I realised that they had played every single song on the album (plus another one called 'Lust' or possibly 'Lost'), and despite intending to listen to my Nachtmahr compilation on the way home, I ended up listening to the
Pre/Verse album all the way home (twice through, plus the first three tracks).
All in all my experience of Resistanz 2015 was pretty damned good. I suppose it was quite expensive considering the amount of bands I actually saw, but I would have happily paid £30 just to see Pre/Verse. Plus the entertainment value of seeing all the cybergoths, cross dressers and general freaks cannot be overstated!
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