It's been more than a few years since we'd seen Pain (the previous concert being in The Slade Rooms in Wolverhampton seven years ago!). Pain has been inactive in the meantime with Peter Tagtgren recording a Hypocrisy album and working on two albums with Rammsten frontman Till Lindemann. Given there's no new album to promote (only the 'Party in My Head' single) the set wasn't exactly a massive departure from previous Pain gigs and it was alright.
The sound was a bit shit to start with though, with the drums mixed way too high, but this improved after the first song. The video sections were okay, though they were more of a distraction for the most part. In the end I concluded that Pain have too many so-so songs in their repertoire and not enough genuine bangers.
The journey to Birmingham was a pain in the arse too, with half the roads shut to traffic... oddly when we came out it was very simple so why the bloody Sat Nav couldn't have sent us in that way I don't know. Unfortunately, the journey home went south as soon as we reached the motorway, with the slip road shut we had to turn left onto the M6 North and after a 20 mile 'there and back' we realised it wasn't just the slip road that was shut... and so we queued to get off the motorway and take the meandering diversion home - which took 2 hours and 15mins. Wonderful.
Oh and before I forget, when I got there I was talking to a guy with blond hair who showed me a patch he'd bought for one of the support bands and who then promptly turned his feet backwards and walked off... odd people Brummies.
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