From Adam Huffman Sent Wed, Jul 14th 1999, 17:50
From Adam Huffman Sent Wed, Jul 14th 1999, 17:50
Bit of confusion over how to actually enter the venue owing to building work. Quite a big turnout. Fridge only performed 4/5 songs, the first few being tinkly keyboard numbers with one long bass/guitar drone-r at the end. Much preferred this truncated set to the longer recent one. I'd only heard one song by Godspeed... previously, on Mixing It, before the inexplicable decision to move it to Saturday night, but that was enough to make me think I shouldn't miss the opportunity. Haven't seen many nine-piece bands before, but I agreed with the overheard comment to the record label vendor at the end that it was the "best gig of the year". Longer than that, actually. Great, sweeping songs, epic without being melodramatic or turgid, at other times small and fragile. Sadly some idiots were talking all the way through, making it more difficult to appreciate the quieter passages. I think there are a couple of dates left in the UK, don't know about elsewhere. Very highly recommended.