Mr. Bungle/Oxbow/Spotlights - o2 Forum, London

[astfgyl]

I'm guessing Theo Lengyel won't be making any guest appearances at these gigs given recent news anyway...

no certainly not.  Absolutely bizarre turn of events but I guess the world  is also huge and weird.

You might enjoy knowing that Vanity Fair was originally recorded during Disco Volante sessions, but unused, and was dug back up by Patton when they were working on California when he had an idea of how it should go.  Trevor Dunn wrote the majority of it originally and it was reworked to suit whatever idea Patton had, but Spruance mentioned in an interview one time the whole core of the song was Dunn's doing.

Had to go look that up there. Mad stuff.

[DeadGoon]

It was their main three albums that got me into them as well and not too arsed with the new/old set, so got tickets to Book Of Mormon the day after.

[DeadGoon]

I started this, then went to the London gig and never followed up.

It wasn't great after. Crowd were well up for it, but the old teenage thrash wasn't really working for anyone. They played 'My Ass is on Fire' and 'Love is a Fist' and we all went nuts, then a few cheesy covers, so most of us went home happy. It's not something you would go out of your way to see.

Spotlights were savage though

[astfgyl]

I started this, then went to the London gig and never followed up.

It wasn't great after. Crowd were well up for it, but the old teenage thrash wasn't really working for anyone. They played 'My Ass is on Fire' and 'Love is a Fist' and we all went nuts, then a few cheesy covers, so most of us went home happy. It's not something you would go out of your way to see.

Spotlights were savage though

I just can't get into the old stuff at all but I did watch the live video and thought it was good. Pity to hear they weren't great