The Alliance of Sound tour is falling apart. (skinny puppy, vnv, haujobb, and youth code)
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- Banned
- 12367 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
ought to be called cavein key.. how one goes from "rabies" to "please buy me some more expensive plastic dolls oh and by the way the only social issue of all time is my name on facebook" i don't care, and i'd implore others to be sensible and not care either.
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 1987 posts since 29 Apr, 2010 from NYC
well i guess im interested in this show again.
haujobb is still in, and vnv to fla is a definite upgrade.
personally id rather see fla replace skinny puppy...but whatever ill take it...maybe ill get to hear tin omen.
and i guess maybe i should bone up on youth code.
haujobb is still in, and vnv to fla is a definite upgrade.
personally id rather see fla replace skinny puppy...but whatever ill take it...maybe ill get to hear tin omen.
and i guess maybe i should bone up on youth code.
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- KVRAF
- 8087 posts since 9 Jan, 2003 from Saint Louis MO
I'm going to tonight's show in St. Louis, and I kinda want to skip out of work and head to the venue now but I know that won't make it start sooner 
Currently my excitement for the show is FLA > SP > Haujobb > Youth Code, mostly because I've seen SP live before.
Currently my excitement for the show is FLA > SP > Haujobb > Youth Code, mostly because I've seen SP live before.
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- KVRAF
- 8087 posts since 9 Jan, 2003 from Saint Louis MO
...and after the show, I would rate them:
SP > Haujobb > FLA > Youth Code
Youth Code opened. Their music is full of energy, stuck in overdrive. The band is just two people: female singer thrashing around on stage and a guy behind a stack of keyboards hitting "start" on a sequencer and not doing a hell of a lot else. Not bad, but mostly they just have loud and angry. A lot of people didn't show up until later, so they were trying to engage a small crowd that was mostly there to see better known bands... not an enviable position for them.
Haujobb was next, and their songs are so much better (not that YC is bad at all), the symmetry of their stage setup, and their dramatic/dynamic range really stood out. They go from cold to supernova and back, and it works well for them. A bit of equipment trouble at the beginning of their set didn't faze them much. They seemed like regular middle-aged guys with some great music, having fun on stage.
FLA... I don't know. Bill is getting old and weird and I'm not sure how much more touring is in him. It's almost comical to see him dancing around on stage. There was a ton of smoke and strobe lights and waving spots hiding the performers -- I'm honestly not sure if there were 4 or 5 people on stage -- and only rarely enhancing the music. They played a lot of stuff off the last album, which to me is one of their weaker ones. They did play one from Millenium and one from Tactical Neural Implant though. The vocals were kind of unpolished and didn't sit well with the rest, and felt like they were being recited, while everything else was in maximum epic club brostep mode. Overall it was kind of a letdown, but maybe because the competition was so stiff...
Skinny Puppy's set was amazing in terms of sound and visuals, and even things like Cevin Key's movement matching well with his creepy costumes and the mad science going on as a sort of ongoing story. When they played in St. Louis 10 years ago it was more of a simple, straight-up concert; this was a spectacle. The sound was perfect, the song selection was great (even though I'm not as much a fan of Weapon as their older albums), the lights/projections were fantastic and the props... well, I couldn't make some of them out from the back of the venue, but there was an air of mystery and menace just like there should be.
SP > Haujobb > FLA > Youth Code
Youth Code opened. Their music is full of energy, stuck in overdrive. The band is just two people: female singer thrashing around on stage and a guy behind a stack of keyboards hitting "start" on a sequencer and not doing a hell of a lot else. Not bad, but mostly they just have loud and angry. A lot of people didn't show up until later, so they were trying to engage a small crowd that was mostly there to see better known bands... not an enviable position for them.
Haujobb was next, and their songs are so much better (not that YC is bad at all), the symmetry of their stage setup, and their dramatic/dynamic range really stood out. They go from cold to supernova and back, and it works well for them. A bit of equipment trouble at the beginning of their set didn't faze them much. They seemed like regular middle-aged guys with some great music, having fun on stage.
FLA... I don't know. Bill is getting old and weird and I'm not sure how much more touring is in him. It's almost comical to see him dancing around on stage. There was a ton of smoke and strobe lights and waving spots hiding the performers -- I'm honestly not sure if there were 4 or 5 people on stage -- and only rarely enhancing the music. They played a lot of stuff off the last album, which to me is one of their weaker ones. They did play one from Millenium and one from Tactical Neural Implant though. The vocals were kind of unpolished and didn't sit well with the rest, and felt like they were being recited, while everything else was in maximum epic club brostep mode. Overall it was kind of a letdown, but maybe because the competition was so stiff...
Skinny Puppy's set was amazing in terms of sound and visuals, and even things like Cevin Key's movement matching well with his creepy costumes and the mad science going on as a sort of ongoing story. When they played in St. Louis 10 years ago it was more of a simple, straight-up concert; this was a spectacle. The sound was perfect, the song selection was great (even though I'm not as much a fan of Weapon as their older albums), the lights/projections were fantastic and the props... well, I couldn't make some of them out from the back of the venue, but there was an air of mystery and menace just like there should be.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 1987 posts since 29 Apr, 2010 from NYC
yeah, i wound up passing on it...mostly because i didnt have confirmation from friends that anyone was going, and i didnt want to leave the woman and baby to go hang out by myself.
sounds like i made the right call. id rather not even see fla if theyre looking haggard, or skinny puppy if theyre not exclusively playing things from last rights or earlier. haujobb...well i would have liked to see them but...meh. and youth code is a complete unknown to me so i didnt really care about them at all.
thanks for the run down.
sounds like i made the right call. id rather not even see fla if theyre looking haggard, or skinny puppy if theyre not exclusively playing things from last rights or earlier. haujobb...well i would have liked to see them but...meh. and youth code is a complete unknown to me so i didnt really care about them at all.
thanks for the run down.
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- KVRAF
- 8087 posts since 9 Jan, 2003 from Saint Louis MO
Well, if I remember right, they played (not in show order, but oldest to newest):
Glass Houses
Icebreaker
The Choke
God's Gift (Maggot)
Dig It
Addiction
Deep Down Trauma Hounds
VX Gas Attack
Testure
State Aid
Fritter
Hexonxonx
Worlock
Convulsion
Wornin'
Illisit
Solvent
Paragun
Give or take a couple of songs. So yeah, literally nothing between 1990 and 2014, and just the four from Weapon.
Glass Houses
Icebreaker
The Choke
God's Gift (Maggot)
Dig It
Addiction
Deep Down Trauma Hounds
VX Gas Attack
Testure
State Aid
Fritter
Hexonxonx
Worlock
Convulsion
Wornin'
Illisit
Solvent
Paragun
Give or take a couple of songs. So yeah, literally nothing between 1990 and 2014, and just the four from Weapon.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 1987 posts since 29 Apr, 2010 from NYC
awwwwww now im mad again.
lol...oh well...at least i didnt miss tin omen.
lol...oh well...at least i didnt miss tin omen.