25 November, 2003, Cathouse, Glasgow, Scotland
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review by Sandy
This was my second time seeing Mr Lanegan, the previous
time being in 2001 with the Masters of Reality. Last nights show by far
out shone the bands last visit. What a night. For a start from what i
could tell the crowd all seemed to be really enthusiastic and into the
show which was nice. Really great vibe and a good mixture of guys and
gals. Mark came on quite late in the end which was cool as his stuff is
more suited to the night. Can't remember the set list but i think he pretty
much covered all his albums with the execption of any Tree's material
(which i was only slightly dissapointed about). He played a few songs
of the new EP "Here come's that weird chill". It was only realeased on
monday so i hadn't had too many listens but from what i could tell the
songs totally translated amazingly live. The band seemed to be in good
spirit and looked like they were definately enjoying the warm reception.
It was quite a heavy sounding set and kudos to the Cathouse soundman that
night because the accoustics were excellent, with clear crisp vocals.
There were times in some of the songs where I was just completely engulfed
in a wall of feedback driven white noise - amazing! We were treated to
2 encores, one of which was mark with sole accompanyment from troy on
accoustic guitar. Mark ended the gig by walking off in the middle of the
last song to leave the band play off. Sheer brilliance!
Sandy
review by David
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The gig was AMAZING. The band were really tight and the sound excellent (despite the problems they were having with the bass amp). I think having the extra instruments this time round really made a big difference (I'm sure the band were smaller last time), still waiting for some strings in no easy action though as I miss them! Don't think they played all of the songs on the list but most of them - as mentioned, Mark came on very late. I didn't think he was going to turn up at one point but it was well worth the wait!! A big thanks to whoever let them stay on till 2330! Only thing that outshone the gig is the new ep which is blowing my mind the deeper I get into it!! He had a bit of banter with the crowd too which was nice. One heckler told him to 'keep on going son' or something like that, prompting the response 'who the fuck are you calling son' from Mark, followed by a little smile a few seconds later, brilliant!! Also claimed he was a 327 year old mummy or something at somepoint to people shouting happy birthday at him. Thank you to the guy in the Pearl Jam shirt who gave up this set list, it now has pride of place on my wall (don't feel too sorry for him....he had one already!!). Hope you all get to see him soon!! |
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