LaiBach and relax
On Thursday Matt Day asked me to go see LaiBach with him and Jenny. After umming and Aaaahing I thought, what the hell, I've never heard of them, but I'll go along anyway.
LaiBach are an Austrian band, and very much a predecesor to Ramstein and hte like. They use Fascist imagery to reinforce their gay icon song covers; all very weird. The most dissapointing thing is that the lead siunger has NO CHARISMA at all. Just none. Which makes a live performance (repleat with fancy lights, smoke and film projector) not very interesting at all. About 1/3 of the way in two girls came on stage and started dancing/drumming/singing, which made things a little more interesting :) but not a lot.
The most amazing thing about the performance was the technical accuracy; the whole thing was sequenced, in time with the film projector, and so the performers (including the dancing/singing/drumming girls) had to be in time with the computer for the whole 1.5 hour set. I guess most bands are like this, but for some reason the mechanical nature of their music made this more impressive (the encore ended up a farce, as it started when the film started, not when the thundering (!) applause coaxed them out).
LaiBach are an Austrian band, and very much a predecesor to Ramstein and hte like. They use Fascist imagery to reinforce their gay icon song covers; all very weird. The most dissapointing thing is that the lead siunger has NO CHARISMA at all. Just none. Which makes a live performance (repleat with fancy lights, smoke and film projector) not very interesting at all. About 1/3 of the way in two girls came on stage and started dancing/drumming/singing, which made things a little more interesting :) but not a lot.
The most amazing thing about the performance was the technical accuracy; the whole thing was sequenced, in time with the film projector, and so the performers (including the dancing/singing/drumming girls) had to be in time with the computer for the whole 1.5 hour set. I guess most bands are like this, but for some reason the mechanical nature of their music made this more impressive (the encore ended up a farce, as it started when the film started, not when the thundering (!) applause coaxed them out).
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I believe that LaiBach did some rather ordinary covers of Metallica songs around our "Corporation" era..... but I could be wrong, like I was about oh so much in my youth...
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