Supersonic

Birmingham played host to a startling array of the dark, stormy, deep and lustrous extremities of music. Here passes a selection of photos from the day and a spattering of comments.

Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses – These guys excelled; prog virtuosity, with face-paint.

Bee Stung Lips – Loud and proud

These lads will be playing host to the inimitable Lovvers later this summer, I think it’ll be something special.

Chrome Hoof

Chrome Hoof

Om – These guys just tore through such ferocious songs I was almost buffeted backward.

Oxbow

The Oxbow duo to be precise, joined by members of Sunn O))) to be even more precise. Starting off be-suited and respectable it soon degenerated into spat lyrics sweaty boxers and a penchant for sweaty rubbing.

I was absolutely blown away, the ferocity of the lyrics sat so starkly next to the guitarwork.

Oxbow – Eugene Robinson

Stacks

The final hurrah came in the unquenchable Sunn O))), the stage circled by stacks of speakers, the tension grew as the stage slowly filled with smoke, acrid and all consuming, the stage was footlit with a green glow, the swirling smoke utterly impenetrable, the opening reverberating notes shook the room…

No words or pictures could capture the atmosphere these guys create, so little visual stimulus and so much sound just numbs you..

Only occasionally would the cloaked figures appear at the front, often stooping over the footlights as though sinking to a hearth, it was truly memorising and unwaveringly loud.

 

Sunn O)))

I haven’t covered half the bands at supersonic, more photos are up on www.photosinthedark.fotopic.net

~ by x0n0x on July 24, 2007.