Matthew Knott - Blog

Another day, another NinePlanFailed gig. It's great to see how much the boys grow in confidence and songs and sounds taking another dimension. Riffs evolving slightly. Gareth was feeling under the weather, I guess you could say Dim was close to death and calling for Jospehine (or Joseph Fiend?).

That said, the set was great, although I though dim was going to collapse at one point. Anyway, I got up on stage and played the set for demetrie while he got behind me and.. no wait.. slipped into the twighlight zone again. You know, that place where I can play an instrument, and have ballance, charm, and co-ordination. Anyway...

Considering the state he was in the gig was excellent. Sounded good. That's one of the things about seeing the band play in a number of venues, the sound changes from place to place. Looking around tonight there was a lot of people getting into the NinePlanFailed groove.

It was good to catch up with Demetrie without having to shout in each others ear as we come up with quips and piss takes through the night. 

Mudjack

Anyway, Mudjack. Wow, what a sound! I'm not really into the blues sound, so to me a lot of the tracks were a bit samey. That said, wow, again. The quality of playing was top notch, very professional sound. The lead singer, soo efortless and developed. Demetrie said that he was very distinctive, professional and not what you'd expect from a local band, and also something about roofing? Probably.

Drumming from new-ish band member Jack was top notch, bass was well played and lead also excellent. When you hear a band like that, who play so well together, to find fault. Technically, 10/10, I'm just not into that type of music. It's a bit like christianity, looks like you folks are having fun and all but I'll just stick where I am living in sin if it's all the same. They really suited the venue perfectly, just seemed like the right sound for the place. 

Psycho Kiss

Also met Paul, Guitarist with Psycho Kiss, and another band, forget the name, but I do remember that Psycho Kiss have a gig in Moloko, Wind Street on 21st August, I'm hoping to go, along with Dim and possibly others. I know my wife really fancied seeing them again. He's a lovely bloke anyway and look forward to seeing them without my NinePlanFailed hat on. In the battle of the bands situation, it's hard to relax and fully enjoy a bands music, when every fiber of you wants your mate to be successful. Imagine my surprise when he said he'd read my short review of them from the battle of the bands final on monday. Imagine my relief that I'd remembered to write he was great! No beatings out the back of the pub.

In fairness, and I know this is boring, repetitive shit, I'm glad I wrote what I did, and I stand by it, it's not easy being gracious, so I wasn't and wrote from the heart. I genuinely thought Psycho Kiss were excellent, and are the kind of band I'd follow and listen to at home, in the office, or on the way to a family event.

Other Stuff

After inadvertently getting into a long discussion (it was one way with some nodding from me, is that a discussion) with Gareth from NPF about truth, facts and conspiracies, I started thinking about several things. Unfortunately, as I said to him at the time, I'm not a great debater, I like to think about what I'm saying, that's my excuse for being generally slow-witted, but I don't think I am, but that's another conversation. Anyhoo... firstly, a phrase he used and I was thinking at the time was Free Thinker.

There seem to be two kinds of people, Free Thinkers and Robots. A lot of what he siad about both groups made sense, some of it I'd already considered or new, some was enlightening. But then I thought, what am I. I know I display robot tendancies, and display, to an extent, free thinking, so am I some kind of free bot, or robo thinker?

The robot side of me is automatic, but I recognise it in others, so am I a true robot? I think not. I also have a lot of ideas, but perhaps they are based on some kind of robotic intuition, who knows. I just hope Gareth never sees my single government post, as I think we'd be there discussing.

The conversation again showed up another facet of my personality, and that is that I barely have one. It seems sometimes, I am fully incapable of thinking my own thoughts, mainly through a weekness of character, and I understand why I'm like this, I may share it with all of you some day (both of you).

Anyway, it's been a long night, tired now, I'm happy going to bed, everything is good and right in my little world. Night all.