Tonight we walk on water and tomorrow we'll be gone

[vin_petrol]

I really enjoyed Tin Omen [ooh, curvy goth woman in a corset, who would have guessed :-)]. They played that particular style of Industrial that always works well with me: bleepy stuff with thrashing guitars over the top.

I was also quite taken by The Azoic. The lead singer reminded me of foxy76 - she looked similar, and had *ahem* a slight air of the dizzy blonde about her... Kudos to her for her belief that "the show must go on", and playing with a dislocated finger (you can see the swelling in some pics of her), and heading off for surgery as soon as she had finished her set.

My memory of Covenant  interesting: I can't recall it in any detail, but the whole thing occupies a warm, happy, fuzzy place of amazing things in my head.

Deviant UK were great. As I said a few times, I like a band where the lead singer is uglier than me - it doesn't happen often :-)

Blutengel were very, very silly, but quite watchable. Not *quite* sure what this bunch of goths were doing at InFest, but it was entertaining. I did enjoy Night of the Blood Vampire. Or was it Vampire of the Blood Night?. No, I think it was Blood of the Night Vampire. Whatever. As miss_wonderly pointed out, how could they have been any more goth? After much discussion, we decided that they *could* have come on it coffins...

The rest of the bands were OK for my taste. Final Selection were possibly the only band that really bored me to the degree that I wandered off. I missed HIV+ (and their naked woman, but she looked a bit thin for my taste), Univaque and Kiew -  at some point I have to go off and get changed and eat some food, and I always miss some bands. Still, at least this year I made a 100% correct decision in not riding up to Middlesbrough to see them play Charlton: Boro played like a bag of shite and lost three-nil at home :-( I was in the pub opposite the halls, surrounded by InFest-goers, with just myself and one other very depressed Boro supporter watching the match.

Food at our special cafe was great, and I got to eat a couple of very nice chicken tikka kebabs. I found the whole weekend to be a great mixture of hanging around with the people who mean a lot to me, dancing, watching bands, dressing up and relaxing. I arrived home part knackered, part completely chilled-out. Is it really a year till the next one?

One final thought: Dancing on the last night, Suicide Commando's Love Breeds Suicide started. Around me were childeric, miss_wonderly and toripink. Opposite me steer was bouncing happily, a cigarette hanging rakishly from his mouth. Then, a smiling gothgrr appeared to my left and a smiling quondam appeared to my right, and for a few moments I felt utterly at one with the universe...

Comments

[quondam.livejournal.com]

It were good, weren't it?

I recommend the getting changed at 3pm, eating at the venue trick. If you want to be flash and do day/night wear, you can always bring a bag of stuff and change between bands - I had a rucksack with me for the first couple of bands Sat/Sun without it being a problem as it wasn't busy, then checked it in to the cloakroom about 6.30ish. Much better than missing stuff, even if stuff is weird skinny naked german birds...

[vin_petrol]

If you want to be flash and do day/night wear

Hee hee. This is more that I fall out of bed, assemble an outfit of reasonable black cothing, and wear that for half the day before thinking "now, I *really* must make an effort for the evening." :-)

I could take clothing with me ... but did you *see* the size of my boots!

[simon-a.livejournal.com]

The BlutEngel track was possibly Vampire Romance or Children of the Night.

Big thanks to you and a lot of the other York crowd for dancing to my set on saturday evening:-)

[vin_petrol]

Thank gothgrr for remembering about that. I was *ahem* a little out of it, and following her flashing-light skirt around like my life depended on it :-)

[ex-john-hat807.livejournal.com]

Suicide Commando's Love Breeds Suicide

Oi!! I was there too! Grrrr.

[vin_petrol]

Were you? I honestly don't remember. Perhaps my subconcsious mind filtered you out as punishment for abandoning me to Very Persistent And Extremely Drunk Woman on Friday night :-P

[ex-john-hat807.livejournal.com]

Yup, I was the one bouncing around next to Steer:-)

erm...yes.... I do feel guilty about that. VPAEDW turns up, tries to talk to (stone cold sober) John, gives up, talks to Vince...."Where's John gone? All that appears to be left is a sudden inrush of air and a departing yell of "I'm off to daaaaannnnnnccccceeeeee", slightly doppler shifted......"

[adamw]

Funny, I was thinking *exactly* the same about The Azoic's singer... :)

[wibblefish.livejournal.com]

you seemed less overtly fuzzy than last year...

was good to see you I need to get over to yorkshire more

[vin_petrol]

you seemed less overtly fuzzy than last year...

I think I was a little more mentally prepared for the experience :-)

Top Bands

[zeitgeistzero.livejournal.com]

My favourite two bands were Tin Omen and Deviant also. I like to watch men with guitars. *grin*

Even though Kiew had men with guitars they were too instrumental for me.

Teresa

Re: Top Bands

[vin_petrol]

The *best* bands always have a female singer and one or more people playing guitars ;-)