Friday 20 November 2009

Rock Of Ages Festival @ Bridgehouse 2

Toni, Aaron and I went to Canning Town to the Bridgehouse 2 to go and see some bands at the Rock Of Ages Festival. That in itself was a real challenge. We have been to Canning Town before to go to the Excel centre which is all very nice. Bridgehouse 2 was in the opposite direction in the middle of an industrial area that seemed to comprise of wreckage and breakers yards, razor wire and dark empty streets. It was the hardest venue to find, we went round the block once and almost gave up and went home.

When we finally located the elusive venue we exchanged tickets for wristbands and were asked which band we had come to see. Told the guy it was the one that had cancelled at which point he gave us free tickets to the Saturday and Sunday events. Ticket sales can't be going well if they are giving £120 away! Anyhoo..............

The venue was pretty small and 90% of the crowd seemed to be made up of band members and their entourage (and there were about 30 people there). The bands were good though.


TRASHTOWN THRILLERS
These guys were awesome. New York Dolls/Hanoi Rocks style glam punk, really energetic and put on a great show despite there being nobody there.




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CATO STREET CONSPIRACY
These guys took way to long to set up and I starting getting a little bit grumpy. The lead guitarist kept twiddling with his knobs when the sound was fine and I really started to not want to like them............

All that was forgotten though when they hit the stage, they were REALLY good.
Sounded a bit like a combination of Incubus, My Chemical Romance and Bullet For My Valentine delivering a very good emo/screamo sound. Technically they were excellent and the vocal and guitar harmonies were wonderful. Ended up buying all their CDs afterwards.




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KITTY HUDSON
We missed these guys at Witch Fest so it was nice to get a chance to see them. Good honest punky rock n roll with some good comic between song banter.




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PSYCHO BABY did a no show so we didn't get to see them and unfortunately we didn't get to see KARN8 either as we had to leave to get back in time although we weren't overly impressed with the KARN8 singer shouting, "You'd better not be fucking leaving" to us and a couple of others. Strangely this was another of those events where smarter planning of stage times and change overs would have meant that all the bands could have been seen before last train mentality kicked in.

Overall what we saw was good, it was well worth the £7 that we paid for each ticket (as they were offering 55% discount codes) and getting free tickets for the other two days over the weekend was a result even though we probably won't end up using them.

1 comment:

Steve - Cato Street Drummer said...

Thanks for the review K.T., sorry we took so long to set up! We were told not to go on for half an hour and if we've got time we can be a bit 'picky'!!