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A Few Words With Exit Ten
As you may have noticed, I’m a big fan of Exit Ten. In a rather excellent first for Musicscramble, I managed to get a few words with guitarist Joe Ward and asked a few questions about the new album, live shows and the progression of their sound.
Give Me Infinity is a subtler record than Remember the Day with a more melodic sound to it. Was it a conscious choice to make a less aggressive record?
Not really. we just grew up a little and matured in our writing. From the start we always went out to impress people with the overall song rather than guitar wankery or by being pointlessly heavy. Songs are timeless. If you get stuck in fads or trends you automatically put a short lifespan on your career. Unless you’re U2… Continue reading
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
On Boxing Day, potentially one of the biggest movies of the year is released. “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” stars Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, is directed by David Finch, and – most importantly from the Musicscramble viewpoint – has a soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
I am a massive fan of Trent Reznor’s work under Nine Inch Nails as well as his other projects and soundtracks such as last years “The Social Network”, and so I was excited to hear that not he and Ross would be scoring the movie. As part of that score they have covered Led Zeppelin’s ‘The Immigrant Song’ with the help of Karen O of the Yeah, Yeah, Yeah’s. Now that part I found a little disconcerting as I really don’t like them very much at all, but I’m very happy to report that they have come up with a potential masterpiece here. Continue reading
Motley Crue @ SECC, Glasgow, 09/12/11
Up until tonight I’ve never seen Mötley Crüe live. Though never their biggest fan, I’ve been listening to them for years and yet never spent the exuberant ticket price to go see them before. I’ve heard great things about their live shows in the past, and I’ve seen all sorts of stuff on the internet that I thought looked really cool, and so I built up the anticipation of a blinder of a gig. In my head, I’d already enjoyed the greatest show on Earth even before they come on stage.
But it’s said you should never meet your heroes, and although I wasn’t that lucky, I should have treated this event with the same trepidation as I believe I haven’t been so disappointed by a band in my entire life. Perhaps some of it was my own fault, but the dream just didn’t match the reality at all. Continue reading
Defenders of the Faith III @ O2 Academy, Glasgow, 06/12/11
This week is like the Musicscramble old man festival, in that we get to go home and have dinner and a nice kip between bands. Dec 5th saw Machine Head (read Gareth’s review here), and tonight the metal barrage continued with the “Defenders of the Faith III” tour featuring Insense, Rise to Remain, Ghost, In Flames and headlined by still-young-despite-being-around-for-ages metal powerhouse Trivium.
Sadly I didn’t make it in time for Insense, but I’m reliably informed by my erstwhile co-writer that they were pretty decent. I did walk into the venue near the beginning of Rise to Remain’s set however and I’m happy to say it was a pretty good start to my night. I’d seen them once before in a support slot at King Tut’s and they were honestly rather unremarkable, but since then they’ve released their debut full length “City of Vultures” and have come on in bounds since then. They were punchy and sharp and a million miles away from when I’d seen them before. They still lack that killer tune that could launch them into the stratosphere, but it was a worthy warm-up slot that got the reasonably small number of folk in the venue at this point going. Continue reading
Machine Head @ SECC, Glasgow 5/12/11
The mammoth Machine Head Eighth Plague tour rolled into Glasgow tonight with a stellar four band line-up. Well almost stellar.
Darkest Hour arrived on stage at 1830 whilst the venue hardly had any visitors. This did nothing to deter them and especially lead singer John Henry jumping and running his way around the stage as if playing a stadium! They had a short set, but also ironically had the best sound setup in the venue of all bands this night. Darkest Hour were enjoyable and very competent but their music was not set the world alight stuff, which after seven albums is a real shame. Continue reading
