| Babes In Toyland Little Hell 68Special London LA2 / Mean Fiddler Tuesday 13th February Doors 7.30pm First up were 68Special, locals from London. Their sound was sort of like Hole, with less musical ability, although overall they weren't bad. A good warm up band, who in a couple of years will probably have a few more decent tunes under their belts. Next were Little Hell, who I also had the displeasure to see at Reading aswell. I really don't like this band because not only does their music suck, they seem like posers, especially the singer, whoever she is. Their songs were one dimensional and I'm pretty sure they did an atrocious Black Flag cover. I sat down for most of their set, it was that bad. The was the act we all wanted to see. Babes In Toyland were back and the anticipation was enormous. Following Holes triumphant gig at the Academy in '99, people were eager to see if the Babes return to live action would measure up. And it did. By far, a much better gig than Holes, although I did get to mosh at the Hole gig, whereas at BIT I had my bag with me. The setlist went as follows, maybe not in this order though : Bruise Violet Bluebell Dust Cake Boy Swamp Pussy Vomit Heart Handsome & Gretel Ariel Drivin' Middleman Sweet '69 Ripe He's My Thing Spit To See The Shine Oh Yeah Memory I think thats all of them, I can't really remember. Anyway, the gig was totally rocking, Kat came out in a sort of skirt-suit, and her hair was a posh beehive type thing....for a few seconds, then she went into Bruise Violet and it just exploded, as did the mosh pit. Halfway through the set, the bassist from 68Special came running out and flung her arms round Jesse. The security assumed she was a fan and tried to drag her off. Speaking of Jesse, she is an amazing bassist, and spent alot of the time on the floor. When the Babes came back for the encore, everyone was shouting "Mother, Mother!", and Kat said " Yeah I want my mother too, but we haven't rehearsed that song", which I thought was funny. Anyway, after the gig, me and my brother and friend went back to the train station, had to run for our train, and I don't mean running like fast-walking, I mean pell-mell through Waterloo, getting on the train just as the whistle was blown. And then to put the icing on the proverbial cake................THE BUFFET WAS CLOSED!!!!!!!!!!! We hadn't had anything to drink or eat for hours and the buffet was closed!!!! Then we had to get off the train halfway and get a coach, which I managed to break the door handle of. Anyway, it was a great gig, if you get the chance to see them DO!!!! Ian Armstead |
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