Our fifth (my sixth) time seeing Aesthetic Perfection and it has to be said last time around at Infest was a little disappointing, and with a new album that we're not loving from limited first hearings, this had the potential to go South. It didn't help that our Satnav wasn't working properly and this being a Friday night, it was entirely plausible that we wouldn't be able to get in the car park opposite the venue.
Gods and Gold (Live in Wolverhampton)
Thankfully the journey was rather quicker than expected and the car park was nice and empty when we got there, although by the time we'd eaten our sticks it was getting pretty full. We got inside while Amelia Arsenic were playing, but didn't feel the need to go inside... we heard enough from the bar. Similar story for 'Priest' as well, but thankfully their sets were fairly short.
We headed to the front and stayed there for about 2/3rds of the show, basically until the people around us got too annoying to bear any longer. In front of us were two girls who were clearly having the time of their lives, which is all very nice and everything, but fucking annoying. The girl on the left must have put her hair up and down about 20 times, you can see her playing with her bloody hair in these videos which were taken by someone directly to our left. The excitement these two displayed on getting a pair of drumsticks handed to them made us feel incredibly old and jaded....
Never Enough (Live in Wolverhampton)
Aesthetic Perfection were definitely better than they were at Infest and it was enjoyable, even though the new songs haven't really settled with us as yet. Annoyingly they had copies of the old albums but not the new one, although I'm not sure I want to buy it yet anyway... we'll see how that goes. Overall, it was a good gig, good sound and the new (ex Combichrist) drummer Joe Letz is a good replacement for the guy who left whose name escapes me just now.
Tim Van Horne. That's it...
I don't think it helps that we've seen AP so many times in a short space of time, we've basically seen him at least once a year, but more importantly than that the first time I saw him he was supporting the previous album and now he's supporting a new one, so apart from the singles we've effectively been seeing him on the same tour over and over, even if he has mixed up the tracks and added the singles.
Still think the Ruby Lounge gig was the best, then maybe the one with Faderhead and this kinda falls third or fourth perhaps, maybe after the one in Bristol were he was sick.
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