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Live reportage
UNEXPECT VISIDEON Feb 13th 2008 @ The 7th Street Entry – Minneapolis - USA
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live
reportage by Matthew "Newbreed99"
Haumschild___
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Echos of Eternity were supposed to be at the show but could not make it
due to illness of the band. Instead, Unexpect headlined and the show was
only $5 instead of $8.
I knew this was going to be an interesting evening. Interesting
is the word in point, the one reason I was even going to go to the show
in the first place was to deliver a DVD to a friend of mine, Mark, who
was going. He mailed me and said, “On Wednesday I’ll be going to the
Unexpect show, are you going?” My first thought was, “who?” But,
Mark is usually never wrong in terms of music, so if he was going,
chances are they were a pretty good band.
So, I went to their myspace page, http://www.myspace.com/unexpect
and I listened to roughly 2 minutes of one of their songs and my
response was; “Whoa! That’s just fucking crazy! Oh my God!” Since
then, I had to go. There were no, if, ands, or buts about it. I was
going and that was that! The band could not be compared to any other
band I’ve heard before, musically, because this is one of the rare
occasions where this was an original band playing truly original music.
The best way I can describe this band’s music, in basic terms, is a
blend of every genre of music that one could possibly think of, with the
exception of light music. It was, black metal, death metal, trance,
jazz, thrash, classical music, theatrical, think of a genre, and they
were playing it! It was utter chaos and it was great!
Visideon: Don’t look like you’re practicing in a basement!
Visideon
opened up for them. I have seen them before, but it has been a while.
The last time I saw them was probably two or three years ago,
back then, I thought they were good and that I wanted to hear
more. So, here’s my chance. I would first apologize for just the one
photo, I had another, but it was blurry. To be honest, there really
isn’t much I can write about them that’s good. The music
was…average and some songs were better than average but not great. The
guitar player sounded good, the bass player sounded good, the drummer
was fantastic actually, the singer…sounded good. But there was a
problem, they looked awful on stage; The guitar player and the drummer
were doing their part to look like they were tearing it up on stage,
however, the bass player and especially the singer, looked awful. Zero
stage presence. There should be a rule about wearing blue jeans on stage
because it felt like a garage band or a cover band was playing when I
looked at them. The singer had no charisma at all. It’s like, she went
up there, sang in front of her keyboard, said, “Thanks, and the next
song is…” and that was it, she didn’t bang her head, she didn’t
try to engage the audience, there was nothing there. My suggestion to
her, is to wear a skirt or something, ditch the keyboard and get a
sampler, hold the mic, and sing your heart in to it! Don’t look like
you’re practicing in a basement! And own the crowd, engage the people
standing around waiting for the next band. And the bass player…if
you’re going to wear blue jeans, take off your shirt and play the bass
as if you’re mad at it and you’re in a metal band, not a Motley CruE
cover band. In the end, I was glad when they were finished. The guitar
player and the drummer were great, but it wasn’t enough to impress me
or anyone else in the venue.
Unexpect: A hell of a lot better than Slipknot and four times the talent!
Now, the
band I have come to see. The band that very much impressed me via the
internet, Unexpect. I saw 7 people climb on stage, which is feet in
itself because the venue had a small stage, and their bass player said,
before the show even started, “Everyone in the back, has to come up
front now!” So, that’s what everyone did. We all got up and
proceeded to the front. Everyone on stage, looked like they were in a
band, as opposed to the previous band. And they kicked everyone’s ass
during the first song. If I could compare their stage presence to any
other band, it would be Slipknot. I remember seeing that band for the
first time, before they blew up to into a phenomenon, and just seeing,
so many people on stage all doing different things was just so intense
and up until now, I hadn’t seen anything like it since. The
difference, Unexpect sounded a hell of a lot better than Slipknot does
and have four times the talent! It was just utter craziness on stage;
the bass player was making the best of the small stage, as was the
singer. And oddly enough, I could hear what everyone was doing on stage.
They had two guitar players, drummer, singer, keyboard player, the two
guitar players had mics of their own, and a sampler and I could hear
everything. The funny part was, they have a violin player, but that
person was sick too! At any given moment, everyone on stage would be
banging their heads all at the same time. The singer had super long hair
that would get caught in the rafters in the ceiling, which I thought was
kind of funny and the guitar player, in-between songs, would talk a
bunch of non-sense before going into the next song.
Unexpect were definitely a spectacle to watch! The music was there, their stage presence and charisma were there. There is not one bad thing I could say about the show, and I would highly recommend everyone to see them and to buy all their discs. So, take my word for it! Unexpect will blow you away! So what the fuck are you waiting for? review by Matthew Haumschild - photos © by Matthew HaumschildWritten permission is needed for the public use of these photos
The video below of Unexpect, was not their best song. And I only had 5:30 of recording time left on my memory stick, so I apologize.
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