WILL OVER MATTER started slow, simple, painfully primitive, but progressing into neat rhythmic beat and vocals. I like more his recent show in Lahti, but also I appreciate greatly his unique vision to create such a odd and strange stuff.
PAIN NAIL gig is hard for me to report much more than saying it almost went as planned. Spontaneous ending was surprise for me. Mix of melancholic, yet suffocating calm industrial soundscapes and power electronics. Mostly new songs and some from 2nd album.
BIZARRE UPROAR was kind of quiet in terms of "in-your-face" brutality, and more focusing of brooding and menacing slow torment. Video fitted well on sound. Repeated loops of utter self humiliation. Not as much sound assaulting everybody, as it felt like being trapped in situation what goes on and on.. I liked that it wasn't so loud and aggressive, more rumbling bass frequencies and clatter of junk on top.
BRUT brought us mix of performance art and noise sound. Kind of MK9-esque high pitch electronics mixed with contact mic & distortion vocal & body sounds. Lots of paint was being splattered, and after gig handful of people continued cleaning job for quite a while to get venue floors, walls, PA, gear and all that somewhat acceptable condition, hehe.. Good one, and I think shortness and simplicity of audio makes it good thing for live gig.
JAAKKO VANHALA gig was great. While I heard someone mention that there was too much of things not going anywhere or was it "air" in set, I think there wasn't any of that. In my opinion his harsh noise set was not only loudest of the night, but also insanely rich and textured and restless storming craftsmanship finished it to be among some of the best Vanhala sets. Perhaps only thing I could have added is more louder & clear sounds of physical metal junk thrashing.
SICK SEED new style is such a nice addition to live gigs. Industrial Musick - as they say. Not noise. Not power electronics, but songs what have very musical qualities to them. Longer lyrics, (clean) bass guitar, loops creating rhythms and even melodies. I agree with many critical voices that set was too long. Was it even 50 minutes?! But about complaints of too drastic volume differences in mixing elements, I have a feeling that it belongs to idea of SS ruggedness intentionally? That elements are not meant to blend together smoothly, but they may appear unreasonably loud, abrupt or "out of place"? As this has been element in many gigs of PPT where something like dry and broken sounding guitars or something like that break the comfort zones. I went outside for half of gig, but it could be well heard there too. Adjusting length with this kind of thing left me with highly positive view of gig.
CON-DOM show was mostly about 30 year old tracks. Last Supper. Kneel. I shit on you and other tracks. Vocals were blending greatly in mix of harsh and fierce tape noise torment. I must admit that part of bulldozing sound was thanks to myself adding certain tube-pre amp booster to his gear to power-up to hissing quality of vintage tapes to match hot signals of contemporary noise bands. Still sound remained original and 100% Con-Dom and to me certainly cultic live gig. Performance elements and interaction with crowd, neat grainy videos, loud sound and perfect blend of vocals - not being too loud in mix, but also being audible. Nice end to looooong evening.
While I don't feel there was any bad bands, I must admit that there was perhaps too many of them for friday show. Long sets and few slightly complex changes made evening very long. But at the same time must say that I have seen this kind of thing fail miserably abroad. Where couple last bands don't have time to play at all, despite some bands cut their sets shorter. I was convinced Finns have enough skill to keep things in time. And indeed, night started merely 15 minutes later than originally planned and ended merely 20-30 minutes later than originally planned.
Amount of crowd was decent in my opinion, but could have been more. I'm not entirely sure whether this will be gig where money is being lost, but whatever. To me, worth for investment! Thanks to venue, organizers, bands, assistants and crowd as well. Lets hope venue can be used for some sort of gigs sometime in future too.
