MUSIC.
MUSE- MANCHESTER ARENA.
Muse- Manchester Arena, Manchester, 08,05.16
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Tramshed, Cardiff.
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Tramshed, Cardiff, 02.09.16
The Reid brothers took Cardiff’s Tramshed by storm as they emerged from the shadows to deliver snarling shoegaze hit after hit. Mary Chain are famous for their dirty feedback drenched sound that ferociously tremored over classics like ‘Just Like Honey’ and ‘Reverence’; which set the crowd alight. The band ploughed through a short but sweet set that barely gave the audience a chance to catch their breath.
Their live show echoed the jaded resonance of 1985’s ‘Psychocandy’ and proves why the The Jesus and Mary Chain are still and always will be one of the most iconic bands that the UK has ever seen.
Futuristic space-rock gods Muse, ripped through a lengthy, rigorous set at Manchester Arena in support of their seventh studio album ‘Drones’. Muse are famous for their theatrical live shows and the Drones tour may have been their most ambitious yet – complete with a 360 stage situated in the middle of the arena - a dystopian feel loomed as drones flew over the audience and a flock of soldiers barge in and begin interrogating the audience to the sound of ‘Drill Sargent’ before the band rise up onto the stage and lunge into ‘Psycho’ – a track so eagerly anticipated by Muse fans everywhere. Finally, the promise of the return to Muse’s heavier, stripped back sound is made. The fuzzy distorted riff echoes from Bellamy’s Manson and sets the tone for the evening.
The Devonshire trio tear through a series of hits before peaking with the blazing riffs and haunting falsetto of ‘Knights of Cydonia’. This just shows how everything Bellamy touches turns to gold. Here we have a band so unlike the rest. They effortlessly jump from genre to genre and make it their own. Never have I seen a band play with such raw live energy and yet with such precision.