Somehow I knew this gig wouldn't run to time, and sure enough when we got there Vieon should have already been playing - but they weren't and so they came on at 9:45pm when they should have been on at 9:15am. Which meant that Sirus didn't come on until 10:45pm, and which subsequently meant they were still on stage at 11:45pm when we had to leave to catch the train home.
The show was in the smaller room (which we'd never been in before) and while the lighting and overall atmosphere was an improvement from Sheffield, and the band were a lot more relaxed it seemed, it somehow wasn't as good. It didn't help of course that from the moment we were in there we were worrying about the time and whether we would have to leave before the end. As it happened, we only missed a couple of minutes as 'Full Scale Revolt' was the last track of the evening, but it was still a bit annoying.
I don't think the setlist was quite as good as the one in Sheffield, we knew they weren't playing the same set, and some of the songs they'd chosen to play were definitely weaker than the ones they'd left out. Still no sign of 'Unite and Resist' though... :(
Earlier Vieon had 'entertained' us with their 80s Synth-Rock, which was okay... if a tad one-dimensional, and the processed vocals got a bit repetitive to be honest. The man man looked like a cross between Thomas Rainer (Nachtmahr) and Ro-land out of Grange Hill, which was amusing for far longer than it probably really should have been.
Salt in the wound was a half hour delay on the train on the way back while we waited for the police and ambulance to attend to someone, so it was another extremely late night for us. And we're doing it all again next Saturday- joy!
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