Sunday, October 21, 2007

Puressence

My last blogs have been quite personal tales about me digging my way out of the rut I'd found myself in and striving back towards a happy life.

Well this one isn't, it's a nice simple tale of what I did last weekend (I know it takes me a while to blog, sorry, but my new busy life is, well, busy) and a review of a gig.

I had a fantastic time. My friend Sarah was coming back to Manchester for a visit and she wanted to see this band play that none of us had ever heard of, So a group of us went out for a few drinks just to see Sarah, but no one wanted to see the band. Sarah was adamant she was going and with my new sense of adventure wanting to see an unknown band and my old sense of Gentlemanly conduct not wanting to let Sarah go off on her own, I valiantly decided to acompany her. I'm so glad I did.

The band was Puressence and despite my ignorance they are actually quite an established band who have been around for some years and have a small but very loyal fanbase. I don't know why they aren't more famous. They were fantastic.

On the down side, the stage design was terrible, the lighting was bad and someone liked the smoke machine far too much meaning that you couldn't actually see the band for some of the songs but in the most important aspect, the music, they were outstanding. I am now a fully fledged fan. During the last week I've bought nearly the full back catalogue, so thank you Sarah for a great night. I'm a convert.

I recomend you check out their myspace page, listen to their music and if you can see them live.

O.K. that's done, next time I'll go back to some floaty wierd stuff about flying on rollerblades again or something, promise.

5 comments:

  1. If you need any help with posting links, photos and the like - just holler.

    :)

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  2. never heard of them, but i will give it a listen.
    i am a huge muse fan. too whiny?
    perhaps..

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  3. Blanco! Muse rule :))

    I love their version of Feelin' Good.

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  4. everyone loves the Muse.

    I came accross them in a similar way. A friend and I were on a looong car journey and she put on a Muse album. I fell in love with it. She was a huge fan and by the end of the trip we'd listened to everything they'd ever done.

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  5. everyone loves the Muse.

    I came accross them in a similar way. A friend and I were on a looong car journey and she put on a Muse album. I fell in love with it. She was a huge fan and by the end of the trip we'd listened to everything they'd ever done.

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