Saw them the other night in Sheffield for the third time (First time as headliners). They were incredible, as I expected. The sound quality was a bit shit though, I could hear the guitar perfectly on the support band (Power Quest, who were a bit samey throughout but had some awesome solos) yet when it came to SX there were loads of times when I was watching Allen only to turn to Romeo, see him playing and realise I couldn't really hear what he was doing, despite knowing what it was from my knowledge of the songs.
Anyway apart from that the show rocks, Allen recemented himself as the best frontman I've seen live, he sang with passion and energy and connected with loads of the audience plenty of times, singing stuff directly to them or you know, grabbing his cock and waggling it around at the dude next to me
The setlist was great too, I know maybe about 40% of their catalogue so I'm by no means the kinda fan who knows every song and I wondered whether they'd play lots I didn't know, but I knew every song at least fairly well to I love this inside out. The set was short though, at the end before the encore they just got up and left, and it wasn't clear what was going on, so we kinda thought oh yeah, this is a short break lol before the second half. But it was before the encore which contained two songs, so that was a shame not to know the final song was the final song.
Oh yeah, and I got Rullo's stick
He threw three into the crowd, and the fourth directly to me, which I managed to catch (can't catch in real life but at gigs I seem to do pretty well
). Ahh the benefits of being an attractive female on the barrier at a prog gig... same thing happened when I saw DT in Blackburn too, so now I have a set of sticks from those guys
Can't wait to go see them again when they tour the new album.
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