This was our third time seeing Bad Religion, and our second visit to the upstairs room in the Birmingham Institute (the first time was seeing Kreator, last year). We arrived about ten minutes before Bad Religion took the stage (perfect timing!) and we ended up under the balcony right at the front left, which was a very good place to stand.
Opening with 'Spirit Shine' from The Gray Race, BR treated us to over 90 minutes of greatness, and even though it was, as Greg pointed out after the first few songs 'a showcase of some of their less well known tracks', it really didn't matter at all. BR have a ridiculous amount of awesome songs so even though they didn't play Punk Rock Song, Broken, A Walk, 10 in 2010, The Gray Race, etc, etc... they really weren't missed.
I could perhaps have done without the No Control segment, but I'm sure a lot of old fans would have been very happy to hear those songs. They weren't bad, just... it's been a long time since I've listened to that album and some were more memorable than others.
Still, we did get; Stranger Than Fiction, Atomic Garden, Generator, Infected, Sowing the Seeds of Utopia, Fields of Mars, American Jesus, Skyscraper, (21st Century) Digital Boy, The New America, Sorrow, Only Rain, True North, No Control, Fuck Armageddon, The Defense, Modern Man, Anesthesia, Change of Ideas, Struck a Nerve, I Want to Conquer the World and many more.
A cracking gig, and a great start to our three gigs in four days, with Aesthetic Perfection tomorrow and Assemblage23 on Sunday.
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