Gallows / Lethal Bizzle (!) / Poison The Well / Blackhole
September 22nd, 2007 at 20:40
I went to another gig last night, that had a bit of an unusual line-up. Hardcore bands Gallows, Poison The Well and Blackhole, were touring with Lethal Bizzle.
The first band on were an unknown band from north London: Blackhole. It later turns out that they’re related to Gallows, which explains how they’ve managed to get on the tour. They were pretty good, although in between songs when the singer spoke to the audience it was hideous. He broke the first four rules of being the support band. Repeatedly telling the audience to move closer to the stage, and not shutting up when they most definitely didn’t. “C’mon! No one ever goes mad for the support band”, he said in desperation. “Exactly”, I said.
Lethal Bizzle was next up. The only reason I’ve heard of Bizzle, as his name was shortened to, is because a while ago David Cameron criticised his lyrics (for which he was a massive hypocrite) – so I thought that he must be pretty cool.
Lethal Bizzle thought he was pretty cool too – he wore sunglasses despite being in a very dimly lit venue, and had his… crew (?)… wearing t-shirts with name on – and there were a couple of people in his band who didn’t play instruments or rap – they simply stood there and looked ‘ard.
His songs were a bit repetitive. The central lyric in every song seemed to be his name. Most songs involved him shouting “Lethal” and the audience responding with “Bizzle”. And every other word during his inter-song banter was “motherfucking”. He was hilarious though. I never thought I’d go to a hip-hop gig where there were proper track-suited chavs mingling in the pit with, er, mostly emo kids.
Also, David Cameron take note, after the set, I didn’t feel compelled to commit gun-crime, or even anti-social behaviour. Unless you consider the bloke I popped a cap into on the way home, because he was looking funny at my crew. He deserved it though.
Next up was Poison The Well. They were good – not a lot to say about them really, as they did what I expected. By which I mean, they played some hardcore songs and people jumped about a bit. Apparently they played a black flag cover.
Gallows came on stage at 11. I haven’t heard any of their stuff before, but I agreed to go to this gig because they’re probably going to be the next big thing. Apparently the NME have a feature on them every week, punktastic.com seem to have a news item about them daily, and Brett Gurewitz, from Bad Religion, who also owns Epitaph keeps praising them up. So they might even achieve mainstream fame. They could be the next, er, My Chemical Romance (in terms of popularity, not genre).
They were good though – even though the singer cracked his head open at a gig the other day, they didn’t calm down at all, with plenty of jumping into the audience, and even at one point running to back and standing on the bar, which was a bit odd.
The best bit of the set was when Bizzle came back on stage to do a, er, duet, with Gallows – rapping over some hardcore guitar noises. Which was ace.
It was all good really. Yeah. And now I can’t say I haven’t seen Lethal Bizzle in concert.
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