IRC-Galleria

(Sat 31 Mar – Church of Misery, woodrue, Pigeon Hunt)



It's quite refreshing to head off somewhere else than Helsinki at once. A train trip to Jyväskylä to get stoned with music. Sounds like a plan.

I haven't listened to Church of Misery very long, but once I grew aware of them I had to order couple of their albums and sit down and move my body to the music. After that I wanted to see them live. And I got a chance to do so only in three months.

Usually, the gigs where I go has unisex audience, but stoner - or doom genres doesn't seem to have the same kind of fanbase in Finland. The audience were mainly consisted of male participants.

There were two support bands on the gig, Pigeon Hunt and Woodrue. I didn't catch up the order which they played in (and neither of the bands did introduce themselves nor do speaks between the songs) but the first band was more like hardcore punk. The band was good but you couldn't hear more than low frequencies and drums to the licensed area - which was okay with me. I was just waiting for the main act.
The second band had more same kind of music as CoM, and they played brilliantly. Also the mixing was better, I think, cause now you were able to hear all the instruments clearly. (maybe it had something to do with those tasty Brandy long drinks which Lutakko had on sale)

When Church Of Misery started playing, I moved from licensed area to the second row, to the front of their bad ass bassist. (Just imagine yourself playing the bass on the heigth of your heels!!) I was kinda confused that Kensuke Suto wasn't playing the guitar, even though I had read some comments that they have an american guitarist nowadays. Still, the blonde-haired man on guitar rocked.
I was drunk of music. Just headbanging and moving my limbs crazily within the noise. Two of my favourite songs from them are I, Motherfucker which they played in the encore set, and Shotgun Boogie. The latter half cause of its cool name(meh), and half cause of it has a great song structure.
The band were really enthusiastic and enjoyed how the crowd reacted to them. I screamed 'tsugoi' til the Hideki Fukasawa (voc) seemed to notice my attempts and grinned a bit. He sounded even better than on records, making those raw screams sound even more awesome.

Result: Magnificient evening spent with two friends in doom. +++