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Devin Townsend at the Royal Albert Hall (again)

Leprous There’s an obvious pull for me towards Leprous due to the association with Ihsahn and prog, but rock bands generally do little for me these days. I listened to a little of Aphelion before the gig, but it didn’t grip me. They’re an odd live band and some of the time the cello player looked a bit out of place when he was without his cello. The sharing of the keyboards among various band members, often in the same song, was also weird. The singer was wearing a waistcoat and doing some very odd dancing and his voice can grate. For a prog band the lack of any guitar or keyboard lead breaks was also weird. However, I quite enjoyed Leprous! Devin Townsend We’d only seen Devin Townsend a few months ago ( in the summer at Bloodstock ), but my wife loves him so we went again. We should have gone the night before as he played loads of songs we knew, in contrast to the night we went where he played nothing we knew! Most of it, I am reliably informed, was from the Ocean Machine and Infin...

Learnings from Decapitated

When am I going to learn?  The first two times I saw Decapitated, Bloodstock and then supporting someone in Norwich at the Waterfront, they were incredible.  In early 2020 in London they sounded awful and we left. Last night in Norwich they sounded terrible again.  I don’t know if it was them or the sound system, but there was no definition. It was all drums, vocals and not much else, so we gave up halfway through.  I’m hoping the new album will be amazing, they’ll play at the UEA and it will be amazing. However, if I am going to learn, then I won’t be risking it.