Amen - They ruled

[guerrillaradio]

Amen were incredible on Saturday. I fuckin love em even more. What's more is I met Casey, Rich and the new bassist after the gig. Fuckin a band...

[ComradeJunichi]

I've only listened to a few of their songs a while back...YOU said you were gonna take me!!! :(

Glad you had fun.

[guerrillaradio]

Quote: from ComradeJunichi on 8:36 pm on Feb. 17, 2003
YOU said you were gonna take me!!! :(

Correct. But who said anything about Amen?? ;)

[Michael De Panama]

Agreed. Gr8 band. I only saw them live about two years ago. They aren't nearly as big in America as they seem to be in the UK.

[El Brujo]

Good band, yes. Especially 'Comma America'. They are pretty big all around Europe, I think.

[guerrillaradio]

Quote: from El Brujo on 5:04 am on Feb. 18, 2003
'Comma America'.

*Ahem*

"Coma" not "Comma" mate...lol.

*Imagines "punctuation mark America"* :cheesy:


They are pretty big all around Europe, I think.

Yeah, but especially this country. They're doing an entire UK tour, without even having a label.

[Smoking Frog II]

Ah man, i couldn't go. Someone said Casey was gonna kill himself at the end. what a bullshit. How did he injure himself? What he do this time?

Did they make a dvd of it? Was your anti-war marchj good? any police brutality?

[sugarcandy113]

hmm...i saw them i couple of weeks ago, for the first time...i was amazed...they were brilliant and apparantly they're coming back to aberdeen in a couple of months :) maybe this time i'l get to see the whole set :D

[mentalbunny]

so bloody jealous (mumble mumble mumble) why can't i go see amen (mumble mumble mumble)no justice :sad:

(edit for typos)

(Edited by mentalbunny at 7:35 pm on Feb. 18, 2003)

[El Brujo]

Quote: from guerrillaradio on 7:24 pm on Feb. 18, 2003

Quote: from El Brujo on 5:04 am on Feb. 18, 2003
'Comma America'.

*Ahem*

"Coma" not "Comma" mate...lol.

*Imagines "punctuation mark America"* :cheesy:


They are pretty big all around Europe, I think.

Yeah, but especially this country. They're doing an entire UK tour, without even having a label.


LOL, my bad (typo), I should stay away from my computer when Im hammered.

Anyhow, yeah, I saw their video's for the first time in Spain last summer (in a channel that almost never plays that type of music). I imagine how huge they must be in the UK.

[Smoking Frog II]

Quote: from mentalbunny on 7:34 pm on Feb. 18, 2003
so bloody jealous (mumble mumble mumble) why can't i go see amen (mumble mumble mumble)no justice :sad:

(edit for typos)

(Edited by mentalbunny at 7:35 pm on Feb. 18, 2003)


yeah, but i bet amen can't play 'little fly' on the recorder, which is good.

[guerrillaradio]

SFII - yeah Casey went on a huge rant about Bush. He changed the chorus of "CK Killer" from "Calvin Klein's a killer" to "George Bush is a killer". He also said the immortal line "peanut butter: made by America, NASA: made by America, computers: made by America...9/11: made by America", which got a huge cheer. The crowd also started an impromptu "fuck George Bush" chant and everytime Casey mentioned him (quite a few times) there were loadsa boos.

I talked to Casey briefly after the show. He'd basically spent an hour throwing himself and various other objects around the stage so he wasn't feeling very chatty lol. He doesn't always slash his arm to shit (fortunately).

The march fuckin ruled. Check out Practice. No police brutality whatsoever (as far as I'm aware anyway).

Brujo - I wouldn't call them huge. When "...Parents" came out in 2000, they were pretty big on the alternative scene (on the same scale as At the Drive-in, ...Trail of Dead, Glassjaw etc: the first wave of anti-nu-metal). Now 2 1/2 years have passed and Amen are just coming back. They played, but didn't sell out, the Mean Fiddler in London, which has about 1,500 capacity I reckon, and they're co-headlining a weekend festival in April. I'd prefer to see them at tiny venues to be honest. That's how punk rock should be.

[El Brujo]

Quote: from guerrillaradio on 3:26 am on Feb. 21, 2003
I'd prefer to see them at tiny venues to be honest. That's how punk rock should be.

Well, I wouldn't really call them punk rock but yeah, I agree. Plus mainstream shows are damn expensive, they would be much more accessible if it only costed $8 to see them.

[guerrillaradio]

Quote: from El Brujo on 4:25 am on Feb. 21, 2003
Well, I wouldn't really call them punk rock...

Well they consider themselves punk rock, and their sound is definitely rooted in punk rock, but there definitely is a huge hardcore and metal influence in it too.

[Lefty]

Sound like interesting people. I like at the drive in and its offspring band sparta, and AYWKUBTTOTD (that's a fucking long acronym for a band name, lol) does Amen sound like they do?

[guerrillaradio]

Quote: from Lefty on 5:39 am on Feb. 22, 2003
Sound like interesting people. I like at the drive in and its offspring band sparta......AYWKUBTTOTD (that's a fucking long acronym for a band name, lol)

At the Drive-in is incredibly intense emo-punk. I love it. From what I've heard though, Sparta is merely poor man's ATD-I.

I usually call them ...Trail of Dead btw lol. Another amazing band. Madonna is one of my favourite tripped out art-punk records of all time lol.


...does Amen sound like they do?

Not one iota. The three broke at the same time (at least in this country), and were part of the same movement (I call it anti-nu-metal), and were all, loosely enough, punk, so they were lumped together, but, musically, they're very different. Amen sounds like a car crash between Black Flag, The Birthday Party and Minor Threat in my opinion.

Any other questions?? :biggrin:

[Lefty]

Sparta is like more melodic At the drive-in. I highly, highly recommend "Wiretap Scars," especially the songs "Mye" and "Assemble the Empire."


I wanted to see ATD-I live so fucking bad, their live show was supposed to be the best ever. The lead singer apparently went crazy onstage for like 2 hours straight.

[sugarcandy113]

Well, amen was sold out at the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen which has like 500-600 capacity i think...hopefully the next time they come back i wont get the random guy from Reading stalking me again :S

[guerrillaradio]

Quote: from Lefty on 6:23 am on Feb. 23, 2003
I wanted to see ATD-I live so fucking bad, their live show was supposed to be the best ever. The lead singer apparently went crazy onstage for like 2 hours straight.

Michael saw ATD-I support RATM. Lucky ****.

Yeah, I have a video of them live somewhere. They're quality, but Cedric (vocals) and Jim (guitar) keep preaching about how bad moshing is. They expected people just to stand still during their shows while Cedric's throwing himself into drumkits and the like. It was kinda dumb.

[Anonymous]

I got the shite kicked out of me when i went. Was great, frist concert whilst wearing contacts.


Little Fly is amazing.

'Little Fly, What a Clown, Always Walking Upside-Down'

[guerrillaradio]

Quote: from Funky Monk on 6:26 pm on Feb. 23, 2003
I got the shite kicked out of me when i went.

Just you wait till your first hardcore gig my friend. Then we'll talk about having shite kicked...


Little Fly is amazing.

'Little Fly, What a Clown, Always Walking Upside-Down'

WTF??

[Anonymous]

What hardcore gigs should i look out for?



Little Fly is a tune for the recorder, played only with the note B.

[Lefty]

Quote: from guerrillaradio on 12:42 pm on Feb. 23, 2003
[quote]

Michael saw ATD-I support RATM. Lucky ****.




Oh, MAN that would be sweet. I didn't know ATD-I were leftist! Lol, I can't understand what Cedric is saying, and I'm too lazy to look up the lyrics.