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Reviews > Manchester 16 Jul 98 L I V E A T T H E A P O L L O M A N C H E S T E R 1 6 J U L 1 9 9 8 This was a message I sent to the Factory Mailing List in 2003, even before I started doing my first fan site about Gabrielles Wish. Their amazingly intense live performance was what instantly conquered me. I only read a review on the NME about the mini albums in 1997, but had forgot about them. I remember the review was positive, but they were on Robsrecords which was impossible to find in Italy, and I didn't even trust the NME anymore back then, after all that Britpop shit they had been throwing at us in those years... of course, now that Datsuns are on the cover, I don't even buy it anymore, I'm content with Uncut... Anyway, comes the secret New Order reunion in 1998 at the Apollo in Manchester, and I'm there! Backstage, before the concert, I look at the ticket. I ask "Doves... mmmh, they're Sub Sub, right?" Hooky confirms. It's probably their debut with that name. Me: "And Gabrielle's Wish?" Hooky: "They're another band on Robsrecords". Me: "Cool, interesting..." "Interesting"? Bloody hell mate, I was totally blown away by their storming sonic attack on the audience, with their deep bass, devastating guitar, powerful drums and screaming voice. They certainly played fabulous songs like Warmonger and Simple, from the two excellent EPs, Gabrielles Wish and Golded Up, which I bought the day after... I couldn't wait to see my dreams come true and have New Order on stage, and yet I didn't want this small, unknown support act to stop... They were amazing, really... it was so powerful, that's how it should have been seeing emerging new wave bands at the end of the 70s... it was like seeing the bastard child of Joy Division, Section 25, The Fall and Nine Inch Nails, it was loud, it was evil, it was cool. They should have become a cult band, but it inexplicably didn't happen. Well, Rob dying the following year didn't help. Tony wasting time and money with Hopper neither. But the Mancunians should have followed them, they were still better than Northern Uproar, weren't they? Mick Aneworderfan Last modified: 25 May 2005 |
Daz playing at the Oldham Castle, 20 Feb 2003. |