As you can see from the poster above, demand for tickets was high and unfortunately I arrived at the Corporation just as the band were starting their set, which meant I was kinda stuck near the back of the room... and as generally happens in these situations the only places to stand are the places where people walk back and forth to the bar / toilets / wherever the fuck it is that people NEED to keep walking back and forth from...
Added to this there is a pillar in the middle of the Corporation which means that standing in certain parts of the floor means you can't see the singer, which is really helpful when it's sold out. But anyway, I could see reasonably well and the sound was excellent, if almost a little quiet - perhaps it was louder nearer the stage?
Well The Birthday Massacre do what they do really, their music is pretty samey sounding so it's really just a question of you know the songs or you don't... and I can't complain because they played probably my favourite five songs of theirs, plus a few more I know well and a few (newer ones) that I didn't really know at all. Because they don't really change I haven't taken much notice of later albums, I tend to just stick with 'Pins and Needles' and 'Walking with Strangers'.
So, the sound was good, the band were fine and the setlist was fine, the only real issue was the crowd which was just full of fucktards, at least near me. Perhaps because it was Halloween there were a lot of people there 'with friends' and some of them seemed to be more interested in standing in a circle next to me chatting (while one of them used a lightsabre as a fucking lamp) rather than watching the band. Hence why I say the band were too quiet, if they had been louder these arseholes would have fucked off to the bar and left me in peace.
Anyway, they didn't, it was annoying, the gig itself was fine. Would I go and see TBM again? Probably not if I'm honest. But I did enjoy hearing Red Stars, Sleepwalking, In the Dark and Pins & Needles live again.
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