Evanescence.

Dakaras · 23-05-2004, 01:40 AM

and the total ownage of Birmingham NEC Arena.

Its difficult to know where to start, I could bang on for ages about how simply stunning this band are, in fact the whole event was one of those days you just KNOW!! You are going to talk about in 30 years time , I felt privelaged to have been there. We arrived nice and early, parked dead easy

Went in bought tour teashirts for Kids and found our seats top row, saw good warm up band Hoobst... something or other, then second surport band rocks and half way through their set on comes Amy and sings a duet with him and your left totally blow away..........she has the voice of well?? youve heard her well shes better live and then she leaves and the band rock on, your all disappointed she left but the band more than make up for it and do a great set, slightly Nivarna about them.

Then Evanescence come on and for and hour and a quarter have the jam pack place screaming thier heads off for more the energy this band all give off is infectious your jumping and yelling with several thousand others. They didnt miss a note every great song youve heard of thiers becomes a incredible master piece moving you, the ballards are heart rending

and the rock has you

for more . And yes Amy is fit and the set is seamless from start to the 5 minute standing ovation ending with the crowd chanting AMY!! AMY!! over and over till they came out and did another two.

All I can finish with is to say if you ever get the chance to see them live take it even if you only vaguely like them . All ages from 5 to 60 loved every minute of it

Knoxville · 23-05-2004, 01:46 AM

Was planning on going to this but couldn't get the cash together to buy the ticket off my mate, they are supposed to be good live and i'm prolly gonna hear all about it on monday. Support band wasn't hoobastank by any chance was it?

wish i'd gone but ahh well..........download awaits

subucni · 23-05-2004, 02:05 AM

yeah, it was hoobastank. my mate went to see them

Stubzz · 23-05-2004, 08:14 AM

I'll let you know what I think on monday night, seeing them at Wembery arena

Dakaras · 23-05-2004, 10:58 AM

Was buzzin so much last night was mental block time

Yes was Hoobastank and 2nd was Seether

Trash Man · 23-05-2004, 11:01 AM

Saw them at Brixton last year and they were awesome. It's just a shame they are playing such big venues now

Ant · 23-05-2004, 11:50 AM

Sounded good, I can imagine her voice sounding amaizing live! Though in my opinion Hoobastank and Seether are soooo much better than Evanescence!

Spud1 · 23-05-2004, 12:02 PM

I was there last nite too =)
just gotta correct you on a few things tho =)
Hoobstank didnt turn up for the BHM gig - it was Gliteratti =)

Second support was Seether - Amy Lees' boyfriends band, they were pretty cool imho, kinda like a cross between StainD and Linkin Park - and they tried a cover of Nirvanas
'You Know You're Right' but they didnt do it justice..hate it when inferior bands try to copy the great legends..but still The duet with Amy was good - and she looked sooo much hotter in jeans an Tshirt than her goth gear =)

Evenescence themselves were almost perfect as per usual - no one can say that amy cant sing (or play piano

). The crowd were lovin it, and the atmosphere in standing was pretty good for this kind of band. they came back for 2 encores, the first didnt fit amys voice at all, but she recovered with the last song

My only gripes with the gig would be that the NEC aint the best venue really; there were FAR too many little kids in standing which does dull the atmosphere a bit; and the set was exactly the same as the live CD i have of them..but still it was worth the money =) Not a patch on the offspring gig tho but thats to be expected

Ant · 23-05-2004, 12:30 PM

I have only heard Seether's own stuff, and i think its really good, kind of grungey. They are also from my home country, so I do pay more attention to them!

I agree. she does have a beautiful voice, but sometimes I wish she would shut up so I can hear some of the instruments!

Her voice is very over powering. I suppose, if i heard them live, my opinion would probably change.

Dakaras · 23-05-2004, 01:22 PM

Seeing the Offspring in August at Reading

and have heard they are great live so looking forward to that

Spud1 · 23-05-2004, 01:49 PM

Originally Posted by [MA]Dak[GSV]

Seeing the Offspring in August at Reading and have heard they are great live so looking forward to that

yeah offspring are the best band i have ever seen live, saw them at wembly..will see em @ reading too

Dakaras · 23-05-2004, 05:47 PM

Originally Posted by Spud1

yeah offspring are the best band i have ever seen live, saw them at wembly..will see em @ reading too

A few peeps I know that saw them at Wembley also said that

Moonshade · 23-05-2004, 06:35 PM

Originally Posted by [MA]Dak[GSV]

and the total ownage of Birmingham NEC Arena.

Its difficult to know where to start, I could bang on for ages about how simply stunning this band are, in fact the whole event was one of those days you just KNOW!! You are going to talk about in 30 years time , I felt privelaged to have been there. We arrived nice and early, parked dead easy Went in bought tour teashirts for Kids and found our seats top row, saw good warm up band Hoobst... something or other, then second surport band rocks and half way through their set on comes Amy and sings a duet with him and your left totally blow away..........she has the voice of well?? youve heard her well shes better live and then she leaves and the band rock on, your all disappointed she left but the band more than make up for it and do a great set, slightly Nivarna about them.

Then Evanescence come on and for and hour and a quarter have the jam pack place screaming thier heads off for more the energy this band all give off is infectious your jumping and yelling with several thousand others. They didnt miss a note every great song youve heard of thiers becomes a incredible master piece moving you, the ballards are heart rending and the rock has you for more . And yes Amy is fit and the set is seamless from start to the 5 minute standing ovation ending with the crowd chanting AMY!! AMY!! over and over till they came out and did another two.

All I can finish with is to say if you ever get the chance to see them live take it even if you only vaguely like them . All ages from 5 to 60 loved every minute of it

Oh yeah, I totally agree!

They're so cool

I was planning to go to the consert when they were in Sweden, but I got sick and my uncle didn't manage to get the tickets for me! But I wish I could have been there!

Love em'!

unrealrocks · 23-05-2004, 07:04 PM

WOW - All three of those bands I really like ... Hoobstank are great, Can I Buy you a drink is so cool

Would have liked to go

Swafe · 23-05-2004, 08:13 PM

heard mixed reviews some ppl i know who went said they were amazing, and some said they'd wasted 3 hours of their life

i was gonna go only for the support, thus be hoobastank, one of the coolest bands about, seether apprently were also quite good

oh well, forget about goin, but who cares, the only good band playing im gonna be seing in 2 weeks so

Stubzz · 25-05-2004, 12:40 PM

Saw them last night and they rocked! But where was Ben, they had some other guitarist instead

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