K17, Berlin, Germany14th October 2008
London after Midnight
LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT is a rock music project formed in the 1990s by singer / songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sean Brennan. The latest album 'Violent Acts of Beauty' finally was released at the end of October 2007 after a few years of silence. LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT are: Sean Brennan (vocals, guitar, bass, cello, violin, programming, drums, keyboards), Eddie Hawkins (live guitar), Joe.S (live drums), Tamlyn (live keyboards, sound samples), Randy Mathias (live bass). http://www.londonaftermidnight.com/ / http://www.myspace.com/lam
Music & Performance
L.A.’s LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT finally entered the stage at 22:30 local time. They started to late that our photographer already had left the venue. To my surprise the club wasn’t so packed, lots of “personal” space - maybe not even 200 people at K17 on a full moon Tuesday night. After a short but powerful intro the distinctive voice and appearance of Sean Brennan and his sidekicks grabbing the audience’s attention and more than two hours of watching an empty stage with no supporting act on it was forgotten. For the moment! Performing an hour and a half, the set list contains classic and new songs from the current album ‘Violent Acts of Beauty’. The bassist Twiggy-look-alike Randy Mathias gets a Happy-birthday-Sing-Sang from fans in front of. Nice little break out of an apart from that pretty unimpressive, unmotivated gig.
Little technical interruptions with the “brand-new and expansive Macintosh” (Sean) have given the audience another five Minutes of wasting time. “Happy fucking birthday!” Technical problems happens everywhere but I rarely saw a band so uninspired to use these five minutes to maybe interact with the audience. Okay, “Any questions?” is quick on the trigger but not enough for even five minutes. A few highlights: they played ‘Demon’, a very welcome ‘Spider and the Fly’ and a song from the new record I really like ‘Heaven now’ and the crowd cheered with excitement when they played ‘Sacrifice’ as their last song. To encourage an encore, Berlin’s K17 cheered again and got two more songs. ‘This Paradise’ and ‘Kids Are All Wrong’. But how sad, they didn’t play ‘Love You to Death’!
Setlist
01. Intro
02. Your Best Nightmare
03. Feeling Fascist?
04. Nothing's Sacred
05. Where Good Girls Die
06. Demon
07. Heaven Now
08. Beginning of the End
09. America
10. Republic
11. Pure
12. Spider and the Fly
13. The Bondage Song
14. Sacrifice
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13. This Paradise
14. Kids Are All Wrong
Rating
Music: 5
Performance: 3
Sound: 5
Light: 3
Total: 4 / 10
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