Almost a year to the day since my last Forbidden gig (that time at Rebellion in Manchester), where Craig Locicero stood onstage and told us that a Forbidden club gig in the UK wouldn't happen again in a hurry... how wrong he was, eh?
I was in two minds whether to make the trek again, but despite the fact that the Bread Shed is definitely not as good a venue as Rebellion, I definitely enjoyed this gig more than the first one. And while that's partly because the band played their second (and best) album in full, it was also because I made the effort to listen to the first two albums repeatedly in the days leading up to the gig.
Last time I thought I knew the songs quite well, but really I just knew the choruses of a few songs, so often I would be wondering what song I was listening to until I got far enough in to recognize it. No such problems this time as I recognized every song immediately.
The band was the same as last time with Chewy from Voivod still on second guitar and Chris Kontos (ex Machine Head) playing the drums.
As I get older it gets harder and harder to make these journeys, driving 250 miles in an evening and getting home at 1:30am. But on this occasion it was worth it, Forbidden played really well, the sound was great and Norman hit all the notes you could expect in a live setting (some of Russ Anderson's vocals on the Forbidden albums are insanely difficult to reproduce live).
I hope they come back, but maybe to the Rescue Rooms next time...
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