And it was off to London yet again for another trip to Elektrowrkz, this time to see Solar Fake for the first time ever, but first we had to put up with 'Witch of the Vale'. This is the kind of thing Dead Can Dance were doing a million times better back in 1987, and The 3rd and the Mortal were doing a thousand times better in 1995. So yeah, no thanks...
This was our second encounter with Massive Ego and again they failed to live up to their spectacular debut album 'Beautiful Suicide'. On paper they should be a great live band but for some reason it just doesn't quite seem to work like it should. It isn't the songs, because they've got a shitload of good songs... the singer is 'larger than life', so why they fail to really hit it live is a mystery to me.
Thankfully Solar Fake are far better live than we might have expected and produced a surprising amount of energy for such a 'gloomy' band. It was a pity we had to perch on the steps at the side of the venue to get a view, which killed our feet... but it was a great gig all the same, probably the third best of the year after Voivod and Assemblage23.
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