2nd Mannor House Showw witth Lovvers/Graffiti Island/Blacck Time/Weiird Lovve

Round #2 of the house shows as opposed to house parties. This time it seems that word has got around from thelast few get togethers and everyman and his dog is trying to give their £2 pounds to whoever is at the front door! I think we counted about 300-350 this time around throughout the night! Highlights of the night included

• conan's general behaviour, so drunk he doesn't remember anything, truly Londons last living punk and first crowd surfer in the house!
• Lovvers doing a Descendents cover and generally tearing through the best set i've seen them do!
• Nina's mix cd when it got to Black Sabbaths 'War Pigs', the whole room raised the roof on that shit.

First up was Weird Nest which is Chrissie from Cuckoos Nest with Philly Kev from Weird Love doing a slightly improv stoner set with the BIGGEST RIFFS of the night.

Next up were Black Time who are on the amazing In the Red Records, and have that stripped down sexy punk rock n roll feel to them with a slight power pop edge, amazing! Matthew even wore sunglasses in true rock spirit even though it was dark inside! Excellent choice.

With their K records baritone drawl and indie punk surf twang Graffiti Island stepped up to slay the increasing crowd, i was slayed enough by pete's amazing jumper!

then lastly we had Lovvers, who had the audience surrounding them ready to be slayed! pretty much my favourite show of the year, it seemed like they played every song in their arsenal with a great Descendents cover, Holy Fuck!!! If you check out the pictures on Neon Party (under the date 24.11.07 Hardcore) you will see pictures of Conans crowd surf, his grabbing of the mic repeatedly and his taking out of henry mid song! Amazing on every level.

casualty of war

In Heaven, Everything is Fine

Vice Uk 5th Birthday bash, free to everyone but only if you got there early enough to get in. Luckily i was only there for the free whiskey & ginger ale and to watch LlOoVvVvEeRrSs play on a really tall stage that was uninviting and neck cracking to watch, i presume its normal use is for DJ's and club dancers??

Gorgoroth

the black metal event we'd been waiting for since 1349 came and went. UNHOLY FUCK!!!
Its not often we get such grimness around these parts so excitement is on the menu for this show.


conan shows the fear



jodie shows the grim



tyrant



Enthroned



















Gorgoroth absolutely killed it, fast, theatrical, brutal and funny, all what i want from my black metal. As its only King Ov Hell and Gaahl left due to the departure of founder member Infernus, they still made a great show, especially with Teloch of Umoral on lead guitar, sick riffs throughout, the only let down being Nick Barker of Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Burger on drums, he's fast but hits like a small girl rather than the fat corpse painted guy he is. I urge you all to get the new UMORAL 7" on Vendlus records, its sick, has the best artwork ever, tongue in cheek lyrics, teloch on guitar and hellhammer on drums!! fuck, supergroup alert! buy buy buy x

maggie the christmas elf

Daniel "belteshazzar" Higgs & Chiara Giovando

As with Daniel A.I.U Higgs solo show at the Mucky Pup earlier this year, this performance left me blown away and mesmorised by his genius, truly face melting stuff.

Antelope & This Aint Vegas

So Antelope played @ the Metro around 10 ish and This Aint Vegas played the Barfly at around 1ish so we could all go to both shows, making two amazing shows in one night, quite a rarity lately.



antelope drum styles









the line up









this aint vegas and this is vegas??!!