Not great men.

So, here it is. The first "real" post. Luckily, the subject for this one is already set. It's written in the stars, so I have nothing to worry about. Yesterday I attended a concert played by the band Gang of Four. Gang of Four is a Brittish post-punk group formed in Leeds back in '77 (switching 19 to an apostrophe feels so good). They stayed fully active till 1984, and have since then re-emerged twice in the 90s, and the reunited in 2004 with the original line-up. In 2006 though, they replaced both the drummer and bass player with new blood. Their debut album, Entertainment! ranked at #490 in Rolling Stone magazine's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time-list. Anyway, I was lucky enough to catch this amazing band live yesterday, and even though their lead singer Jon King (if you have a spare minute or two, please Google his name and see who his namesake is) was to high to even comprehend where he was, it might have been this years best concert so far. The incredible bass play from their albums was taken to a whole new level thanks to the magic power of distortion, Jon King still has a great voice (which I personally think is really similar to the voice of Television, Tom Verlaine) and the power that is connected to the band was still there. In many cases, reunions are just really, really bad (The Who, Sex pistols), but as previously mentioned: Gang of Four has still got it.


Jon King says fuck technology.

For new listeners I would recommend the song Natural's not in it to start with. It has a great main riff and is probably one of their best songs.