crazybobbles

It was the first time I saw 65daysofstatic, and man was it an eventful gig. The music was thumping and the events that occurred made it quite a fun night, including macbook pro failage and the climatic power outage.
It was quite a tight schedule today as I was munching Nando’s at Euston with musers, clearly I was going to miss the first support band but it was worth it, mainly because I was starving that day. Arriving at the sweaty and packed venue I slowly advanced my way to the front of the stage for photolising. I brought my 28mm and 50mm lens for the event since the tele was a bit hectic for a gig like this… glad I didn’t bring it.

The support band I managed to see a bit of were pretty cool. There seemed to be quite a few people in front who only came here to see them as soon after they finished they left with them.
Not long when 65daysofstatic appeared on stage, their gear all up and ready for some thumping instrumentals.

Man did they rock hard, it was like a man made wave at the front as people were moshing and rocking out to the band. I was placed strategically in between two boxes so was able to avoid most of the madness, it got so frantic that the monitors were constantly misplaced which required roadies and band members to push back into place.

Later into the gig, the keyboard started to fail (EPOC?). It looks like the macbook pro ballsed up a bit, it took a while for everyone to fix the issue which required some machine restartery. They continued to power (funny how i say “power”) through all their songs, playing some new ones and whatnot. Here’s a video of a new one:

Things were getting a little too climatic and suddenly BAM, the lights went out, all you could hear were the drums still going at it but that was all. It was a power outage (wasn’t too hard to realise that). The crowd weren’t at all pissed about the situation and continued to cheer, I kept requesting an unplugged set (but was later on told that they didn’t have their acoustics with them ). It was quite chaotic as noone knew what to do at situations like these (usually I’d opt for ransacking the place, but this is camden, there wasn’t much to take).

It was just a waiting game for someone to tell everyone what was going to happen. Eventually some progress was made as we were told to pass on the message about the power cut. One girl took it into her own hands to scream the news to the crowd (it was a destiny she HAD to fulfil), she did shout with much gusto as her voice was breaking from all the screeching (kinda like a bad distortion but on vocals). “POWER CUT” eventually turned into a wave of people from the crowd just telling her to shut up. I joked around and said it sounded like she was shouting “PIZZA HUT” (we did do the pizza hut song afterwards if anyone’s asking).

There wasn’t much progress coming and eventually some order was restored as a megaphone was brought to the front of the stage, they couldn’t wait any longer so they declared it the end of the show and ensured people evacuated the venue due to the power outage, just to clarify another point, the ENTIRE block in Camden was wiped out, it wasn’t just the venue (though it probably was caused by them, rocking out requires a lot of power. to power through).

Personally I found it a nice end but then I wasn’t able to listen to a few songs that was on the end of the setlist.