Flying hearts from flying Vs and Mirrorball
A couple of photos from last night’s gig where I was trying to find something that was a more soul than heavy metal.
For the first time in a long while I was persuaded to attended a gig, Mastodon at Nottingham’s Rock City. Many years ago I used to live at Rock City sometimes attending rock, alternative and student nights in the same week, so it was nostalgic to visit again.
Rock City is the venue where I first saw Guns ‘n’ Roses, Iggy Pop, Public Enemy, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Jane’s Addiction, amongst others, so I have fond memories. The place did seem a lot smaller than I remembered and they’ve given it a bit of a facelift, not much, a lick of paint here and there but not enough to change the atmosphere which was always pretty good. The carpet may have had a clean, one would hope, but I didn’t check closely it just seemed less sticky, those of you that have ever sat on the carpet will understand that comment. The most bizarre addition, apart from the guy in the toilets selling aftershave (a hard sell when all punters have beards), was the Mock Tudor balcony adornment made of steel plate, very metal. But the overwhelming difference was the number of gadgets and personal technology people were using to text, tweet and take pictures. It seems that since my last gig we don’t experience a concert we record it and collectively file it in the cloud I found at least one Flickr set of the same concert taken with the ubiquitous iPhone this morning. I offer my two iPhone images to the mass that were taken on the night above and maybe I’ll go to another gig before the next leap in technology happens.