Slipknot
1999-12-13London Astoria
This gig came shortly after a Motorhead gig and you couldn't imagine a bigger contrast. Bloody over excitable children every where, stupid masks and a criminally short set.
Obviously someone has realised somewhere that you can take the same principles behind a boy band and apply them to a metal band. Here we had an audience whipped into a frenzy, not be the music, but by the months of press hype preceding them.
Are they a terrible band? No, somehow between the nine of them they manage to salvage a couple of tracks but if there is a future for metal this aint it.