Paradise Lost

I was in Glasgow on Friday night for a Paradise Lost gig. Hard to imagine but they've been on the go for 21 years now. Anyway, left home at 4:30pm and spent a good 10 minutes in Rheda trying to find Adam's house only to give up and go collect Scoot. Turns out I'd misread both of Scoot's text messages as 38 rather than 35, and then, no sorry 33... Would've been easier if I'd looked at the text message again whilst still in Rheda. Anyway, the journey up to Glasgow was uneventful and we pulled up opposite the venue; King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, at about 7:45pm.

Doors to the venue proper opened a little bit after 8:30pm and by the time we got upstairs the first band; Engel, were already on stage. They've only been around for a couple of years and have so far only released 2 studio albums. Don't let that fool you. All the band members have been in other bands in their native Sweden beforehand. They played a very good 30 minute set and I will be hunting out their two albums.

The second support act, Katatonia, also Swedish, have been around since 1991 and have released 8 studio albums and a couple of compilation albums. They came on stage about 9:30pm and performed for about 30 minutes also. Apart from their first track; which I thought was abysmal, they played a very good set.

Paradise Lost were due on stage at about 10:15pm but didn't arrive until 10:30pm. They played a collection of songs covering a good spectrum of their 12 studio albums. Lead singer Nick Homes struck up a good banter with the audience and even suggested that one of the songs the audience shouted out a request for would sound awful because they hadn't rehearsed it. They finished up their set at 11:45pm but then threw in an encore and the show finished just after midnight.

We had a fairly uneventful return journey home apart from some seriously heavy rain and standing water in places on the M74. With a brief stop for coffee to keep awake I dropped Scoot off about 3:00am, then dropped Adam off about 3:15am and got home myself just before 3:30am.

Going to see Saxon and Anvil in Whitehaven on Wednesday and then going to see Biffy Clyro in Manchester next Saturday. I'm also going to see Lacuna Coil in Manchester at the end of January and Rammstein, 2 days later, also in Manchester.