KILBURNFLYER

Motorhead and Saxon at Sheffield Academy - great show in a great venue - a long drive there and back in a day - was originally planning to stay over but has to get back for my flight to NYC to see AC/DC at Madison Square Garden. A fucking long way to go for a gig but well worth the effort - rock n roll train a good intro song and then into hell ain't a bad place to be. Off we went with a 90 minute show (could have been longer but they are getting on a bit now) back in black, thunderstruck, hells bells, let there be rock all included with highway to hell and for those about to rock as an encore. A solid performance and good clean sound with the new songs doing better than I expected - big jack was well received. Splendid in so many ways - looking forward to tonight. All in all very professional but not quite what they were. The Answer who supported were seriously good - at points they reminded me of the black crowes or zeppelin - have to go see them again.

Update: Thursday's gig was exactly the same - saw an east coast AC/DC tribute band (Overdose) at BB Kings who were great fun as an aftershow piss up.

KILBURNFLYER

Slayer again at Hammersmith. Pretty much the same set as the previous night but in a different order so the whole thing sounded completely fresh. As a band they are as tight as a frogs arse but still no room for expendable youth which is a shame. South of Heaven was executed even better than the night before which when I went into the venue I didn't think was possible. Trivium again left me unmoved - I am always surprised by bands who play two shows at the same venue and seem to assume that they can use exactly the same between song "banter"and it won't sound completely crap to people who went to both nights. It can only be considered wit if it is spontaneous which it clearly wasn't.