Rasmus - for a second time this year!!
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alobearYes, my all-time favourite Finnish emo band were *back in London* tonight and, boy, was I right there!
This time, I had partners in crime - many thanks to nezumi-sama and etcetera-cat for accompanying me. And many more thanks to the wonderful quintus-marcius for providing the extra tickets in the first place!
Back in May, I enthused about the awesomeness of the gig, and can safely say that this one was pretty much just as awesome again.
Downside - they got the balance a bit wrong, so the bass was much too loud and the singing much too quiet, but I had done my homework all week and knew nearly all the words to every song, so it didn't matter that much.
Upside - after actually looking his age in May, and also way too thin, Lauri was very much back on form tonight. He's got some flesh back on his bones and looks about twelve again, which was really good to see. I don't know what was wrong with him in May, but I'm glad he seems to be okay again now.
They did a few acoustic songs in the middle, which were really cool (not least because you could actually hear Lauri singing!), but the highlight for me was "Livin' In A World Without You", which is one of my favourites and really good for bouncing up and down to. "For forty days and nights I was chained to your bed... Looking outside at a sky that has never been blue... Suddenly naked I run through your garden..." etc, etc.
We only caught the last couple of songs by the support band (the curried goat at The Mango House round the corner was very slow, but worth the wait), but they were pretty good. The Dirty Youth - desperately trying to be Paramore, and actually not doing too bad a job of it.
Oh, why can't The Rasmus move to London and play gigs all the time???
This time, I had partners in crime - many thanks to nezumi-sama and etcetera-cat for accompanying me. And many more thanks to the wonderful quintus-marcius for providing the extra tickets in the first place!
Back in May, I enthused about the awesomeness of the gig, and can safely say that this one was pretty much just as awesome again.
Downside - they got the balance a bit wrong, so the bass was much too loud and the singing much too quiet, but I had done my homework all week and knew nearly all the words to every song, so it didn't matter that much.
Upside - after actually looking his age in May, and also way too thin, Lauri was very much back on form tonight. He's got some flesh back on his bones and looks about twelve again, which was really good to see. I don't know what was wrong with him in May, but I'm glad he seems to be okay again now.
They did a few acoustic songs in the middle, which were really cool (not least because you could actually hear Lauri singing!), but the highlight for me was "Livin' In A World Without You", which is one of my favourites and really good for bouncing up and down to. "For forty days and nights I was chained to your bed... Looking outside at a sky that has never been blue... Suddenly naked I run through your garden..." etc, etc.
We only caught the last couple of songs by the support band (the curried goat at The Mango House round the corner was very slow, but worth the wait), but they were pretty good. The Dirty Youth - desperately trying to be Paramore, and actually not doing too bad a job of it.
Oh, why can't The Rasmus move to London and play gigs all the time???
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Date: 2012-12-16 06:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-17 12:23 pm (UTC)I still haven't heard a single song by The Rasmus, I'm just about to rectify that, courtesy of Youtube though. Oh, what did we do before Youtube?
Listening to 'Living in a world without you'. I quite like it :)
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Date: 2012-12-17 08:35 pm (UTC)Black Roses is my favourite of their albums, closely followed by Dead Letters and The Rasmus. Then Hide From the Sun and Into are pretty good, too.
Just don't listen to anything before those, because they used to sing totally different stuff and it's awful!
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Date: 2012-12-20 01:26 pm (UTC)