Wall of Mouths

Title: Manchester gig reviews: Start here!

Ouch, my head is really sore! Well I’ve just got back from the show and fuck me, what a belter! Being in a small venure was great, you got a really nice personal feel.. highlights for me were..well everything! The double punch of Potato Junkie and Rust being a particular highlight! It was tight, it was sweaty! The banter was great, and the band seemed to be enjoying it as much as we were!

This was great, I’m telling everybody here..get your arses out and see this tour..every song was great and we broke Carrie in! ( My flatmate and T? live virgin! ), another plus was getting to meet Hooch and her mate ( annoyingly we missed Karl! ) who are top people.

What a great night..the only negative being no Teethgrinder, and the two annoying girls who seemed intent on getting at Hooch. She’s got pics..expect ‘em soon!

I’m off to lie down now, I need it!

Thought Teethgrinder won the poll? Oh well, so much for it being fixed.

Title: sock rockin beats

hey guys new to the forum woo hoo, the gig was amazing been a while since i saw the guys live but my god last night brought it all back hope to see them again over the summer or as andy promised another tour after september…???
anyways the support was 3 stages of pain (i think) at first didnt see them myself and secondly miss black america the were quite good in places but the lead singer was completely of his tits (couldnt even form a sentence to me after the show ha the long haired guitatist was excellent though), okay,
one more thing, only large and extra large tees, shame but aparently its not because all therapy? fans are fat bastards a matter cleared up by the very lovely girl on the merch desk!

mama the ambulance, thank you and good night!

Title: If it Kills me…

my trip over t’pennines from Leeds was worth it because as ever - T? Rocked! They were better than ever tonight, and i’ve seen them so many times i’ve lost count! It’s wonderful to see a band that still after all these years love the music they play with such a passion that they are probably having an even better time than the crowd! Andy C was just constantly smiling like a kid with a new toy! Thats real Rock n Roll - not like the plastic ‘punk’ bands we are bombarded with today!
Setlist was fantastic with all the classics, esp. my fave ‘Stories’!!
lots of stuff from the new album. I’d only bought HA at the weekend so only had a quick listen, but the songs done in a live setting always put a more exciting edge on them in your memory, so on listening to the album again when i got in (1.30am - sod the neighbours!) the new songs sounded even more fantastic - esp. If it Kills me, Hey Satan You Rock and Not in my Name.

Even the ‘Evil Priest’s’ Bass problems didn’t mar the set - it was actually quite funny! And even funnier was Andy trying to start ‘church of Noise’ in the wrong key - “Please god, give a fat guy a break” was his quip! Oh and love the new haircut!

It was also great to see so many young ‘uns there, and not just us diehards - (i think there were only 2 of us wearing the old grey ‘screamager’ T-shirts) - spread the Therapy? gospel to the young and impressionable - yeah!!!

Long live the evil priests of Rock! Long live Therapy?

(p.s I shall be writing nasty letters to certain rock ‘rags’ about the shocking absence of T? from any of the festival line-ups in the UK this summer - a travesty!)
(p.p.s Andy Cairns - i was one of those that actually bought ‘Suicide Pact’ thankyou - in fact i bought 2 copies, so i can’t help it if you still have a mortgage to pay off! *chuckle*)

holy shit that gig was amazing! :cool:

Being in a smaller venue really gives it a great kind of close atmosphere. Set list was great, and when Andy started playing church of noise wrong was funny =)

Did anyone notice that someone stole the microphone? Must of bean one of the crowd surfers who ended up on the stage or when the mic got spun round to the crowd. Anyhow I heard a guy who worked at the gig say “look out for someone with a microphone and get the bastard” lol

Therapy? looked kinda pleased when we all started chanting “James Joyce, is fucking my sister!” :D

I will stop blabbing on now heh, fantastic gig :D

Title: Top bollocks

I am the virgin sacrifice to the therapy gig last night and can i just say i would like to be sacrificed every night of the week I was soooo impressed. Met some fantasic people including hooch (hello) and some people I will never see again i imagine including a lovely lad in the audiece called chris who stopped me falling a few times (BIG hug and thanks for that)just like to say the therapy fans are the friendliest bunch of peolple I have met.
I keep moving and growning in pain due to being soo stiff and ache…it is great!!!

Carrie
p.s how big were Andy Cairns eyes

what was the turnout like? did the boys manage to fill the venue?

The place was packed. I was right at the front and got very sqaushed (lots of people much taller than me). I’ve got friction burns on my arms and shoulders - that’s how tightly packed we were. :-)

And it was great to see such a wide range of ages.

Only downside when you go to see bands that have released more than 3 albums - they never play all the tracks you really want you hear.

Great gig, I have to say I really enjoyed it. Made my friend Kate from Kentucky come along (a trade off for seing Stephen Malkmus with her earlier…) and she really enjoyed it as well. I even got her to wear my therapy? t-shirt, and mosh for a bit :)

Nice to meet you Karl and all other friendly people. But one thing; whatever happened to the old tunes (okay we got potato junkie, but that’s it)? Well, it doesn’t really matter, i’m a happy boy now!

/Lucas

Title: Re: strange isn’t it?

MonkFish wrote:

Am just giggling at Andy’s comments that last year he nearly auditioned for Busted - ahahahaha - and what a bunch of muppets they are…

Busted - what a band!

I must say their early demos are excellent, early Sabbath meets Dinosaur Jr, with a hint of Sonic Youth. Although, admitedly, their new stuff is daringly innovative and is possibly defining a new musical genre. Folks, your kids will be listening to, and reading about, Busted in years to come. Yes, their influence will be that wide-spread.

:rolleyes:

“That’s what I go to school for!”

Everybody together, c’mon, sing it!

It’s a song right up there with Bohemian Rhapsody, Paranoid & Stairway To Heaven! It’ll go down in the annuls of musical genius!!

These guys deserve it all!!

Just been chatting with my mate on the phone, he said that when they got there at 7 the staff were putting sold out signs up, so there you go! I wonder if there were many people who thought they’d get in on the night? The problem is that Virgin records stopped selling tickets a while back, I wonder how many advanced sales would have been lost by people not knowing where they were? During the Shameless tour the booth was still there and that album seems to have had less of a push behind it than HA has and that was moved up to the MDH ( Or Academy 2 as we’re now supposed to call it..)

Blimey Im sore :eek:
2 Flesh Tunnels Gone
1 Nipple Ring Gone
1 huge Bruise the size of my fist on my back
and a bloody mean hangover this Morning

off to the Tattooist on friday then down to Oxford for some more!

Hey Monk you mentioned some drunken dude comin onto you, if its the guy im thinkin of he was a short ish chubby guy with v short hair. looked kinda old and smelt of beer…

Anyhow if that was him I was probably stood behind you all night (i wasnt the drunken smelly guy…). just thought I would mention it! I was closest to the bass player and just on the edge of the moshpit..

Oh and yes they did sell out, I came in later and missed the support bands and I saw the sold out signs on the door.

30seconds wrote:

Karl, where were you if you could see the setlist? - up the front? I was down by the desk (well, I’m getting on a bit!)where the sound was great. :cool:

I was at the front slightly to the right of Andy, I guess in front of Martin then. It was only yeterday that I could feel brusing on my right rib, I was trying to hang on for dear life onto one of the montiors, but that didn’t last long. I’m sorry had to go on the rob again, when Martin put his micropohne first over the crowd I took two plectrums from the stand, I gave one lad next to me one of them as he asked me for it. Swear to god, if you can get the chance on this tour, then get one, they are fucking cool. Red with the Gemill on one side and ? on the other. The roadie was a bit tight arsed at the end, as people were asking him form plectrums that were dropped on the stage, but he said no as they were running low (on the first night of the tour?) I asked for a drumstick that was on the stage, and he went and got it, and said sorry it hasn;t been used, oh for fucks sake!!!
There was a really funny tall blond haired lad at the end of the gig who leaned over and got one of Andy’s stubbs and just relit and finsihed it off. Perhaps this was the lad who was trying to sit on the girls back that I read earlier?
No1 concert though, I knew it was going to be a rough one as soon as I saw there was no security line between the stage and the crowd:eek: