Broadrick said it was going to be an old skool set and it was.
Was under the impression there would be SOLAH songs. Pretty much Streetcleaner with a few extras.
he said first 4 albums - SoLaH’s only in those if you discount both the first EP and Slavestate release.
Glad to see that Crush My Soul made the cut.
MAN, I want video of this SO bad.
Deadguy & Brick Windows have no business being on Filth Pig…they should be on a My Chemical Romance record where they belong.
Wrong, wrong, wrong and more wrong.
GODFLESH RULES!!!
Well…not really. I wouldn’t say “rule”. They had their time. Apart from Us And Them, they never really fucked up - but some albums are definitely weaker than others.
Pure was their peak - and what a peak it was.
And yes I’m sitting here waiting for you to rebuke me on how “awesome” Us And Them was.
Us & Them is probably tied neck and neck right now as my fave of the 'Flesh. It’s unrelentingly heavy right until the very end, where it’s unrelentingly PRETTY.
Boo-yah.
he said first 4 albums - SoLaH’s only in those if you discount both the first EP and Slavestate release.
Yeah, guess you’re right. Was more or less thinking anything from headcleaner to SOLAH and inbetween
Us & Them had its moments, mainly the 2nd half with trax like Bittersweet, Nail, The Internal and Live To Lose. It also had one of the best openers with I, Me, Mine. But my faves from Godflesh were Streetcleaner, SOLAH and of course the self-titled. I’m suprised to see that Avalanche Master Song and Weak Flesh were in there. Actually the only real shocker out of those 2 songs is Weak Flesh. AMS is kind of a given in a way even though JKB said first 4 albums. But like I said before it aint an old school set without Slavestate. And Im suprsied they didnt play more from Pure
[url “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSRp6nQl3Nc&feature=player_embedded”]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSRp6nQl3Nc&feature=player_embedded
Fan-filmed video footage of reactivated British industrial metal pioneers GODFLESH performing the song “Christbait Rising” on June 18, 2010 at Hellfest in Clisson, France can be viewed below. The Hellfest concert marked GODFLESH’s first appearance since the band disbanded in 2002.
GODFLESH — featuring Justin Broadrick (ex-NAPALM DEATH and HEAD OF DAVID) and Benny Green (ex-FALL OF BECAUSE) — will be returning to its roots to play the band’s first U.K. show in over 10 years at the 2010 edition of Birmingham’s acclaimed annual Supersonic Festival, set to take place on October 22-24.
Justin explained to U.K.'s [url “http://www.terrorizer.com/”]Terrorizer magazine the reasons behind the band’s return to the live stage.
“It wasn’t remotely planned,” he said. “Whenever it’s been mentioned previously, I’d stated categorically not, regardless of the color of the offers. But, somehow, this started to make sense late 2009, and once I put it to Ben ‘G.C.’ Green in no unceertain terms, it made sense to him, too. Not having to support a record or a label and just do as we wish on our terms is exciting, and to play as GODFLESH were originally designed is even more thrilling.”
When asked what the odds are of any new GODFLESH material being released in the near future, Justin said, “That is fairly minimal. We are more than happy to return to our old sound for a show, but uncertain how we could do this in the context of new material. We’ve both moved on so much, but we will not rule out any possibility currently.”
GODFLESH split up in April 2002 — six months after Green announced his departure from the group. “Regrettably it took until the day of leaving for a lengthy U.S tour for the realization [that the band was over] to finally take its toll on me,” Broadrick stated at the time. “Unfortunately, the finality of the decision and the responsibilities of making the decision proved too much for me to bear, and I collapsed under the weight. I found that without G.C. Green, GODFLESH is not GODFLESH, and him leaving proved to be an omen for me. I also feel that everything we originally intended or even imagined with GODFLESH we have done.”
Crappy quality but still nice to see. You can hella tell the technical difficulties. Justin said thered be visuals and there werent many of those. Plus the lighting was horrible
That footage is decent. I’d consider Birmingham though I might have other plans for after Aug, ruling it out. But Swans & Godflesh is essential.
JKB has just expressed his dissapointment with the Hellfest gig. The following are his thoughts from this Facebook page:
“GODFLESH @ Hellfest. Okay, if you were in attendance for this then I am sure you are aware of how disappointed we were with what transpired, and we are sure you are / were most likely disappointed too.
I am afraid that it was all utterly beyond our control, we salvaged a performance out of what was a fairly ridiculous set of events. The power generator blowing during the set from The Young Gods, on just prior to us, was the catalyst for the ensuing chaos. At one point, performing at all was even in doubt. We had an hour allocated for both soundcheck and stage set up, since there is no soundcheck prior to the start of the festival, unfortunately, something that we really did need, but we were having to put our trust in the one hour allocated before performance, this one hour then became 20 short and extremely stressful minutes, with the stage management proclaiming that we must start immediately without any check of the sound, disastrous for us - additionally, the backline they hired in for us was not entirely correct or had faults with it, Ben’s bass rig specifically, my guitar amp was not right either, the monitors were awful without the time for us to correct them sufficiently, resulting in not hearing virtually any of the Machine in the monitors for nearly all of our opener ‘Like Rats’, the DVD machine for our films was also somewhat faulty. In short, this was an absolute frustrating catalogue of disasters, presenting the band in, for us, one of the worst ways imaginable. We do though consider that we somewhat forged a performance out of a significantly bad situation.
We played 40 of our intended 60 minutes ; quite literally onstage I managed to turn 30 minutes into 40 due to ongoing arguments, during our set, with the stage management.
We’re really sorry to everyone concerned that all this happened and hopefully this will all be rectified at the forthcoming GODFLESH performance at the Supersonic Festival, details below, for those who can make it, of course.”
What a nice guy.
What a nice guy.
No kidding. too bad not all musicians are as respectful to their fans as this guy seems to be!
Late,
grmpysmrf
“We’re really sorry to everyone concerned that all this happened and hopefully this will all be rectified at the forthcoming GODFLESH performance at the Supersonic Festival,”
Right…I’m going to Birmingham for Supersonic!!!
Justin is awesome. At the Jesu show in Montreal he was the most humble and sincere performer I have ever seen on stage.
Like Rats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmuWvKJ0Q1M
Spite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul9iuq6-qmI
Havent watched these yet but Im sure they’re better than the Christbait clip
Justin is awesome. At the Jesu show in Montreal he was the most humble and sincere performer I have ever seen on stage.
Yeah he does come off as a really nice and humble type of dude who really does feel terrible for his crowd when things go wrong.
There’s a great interview with him when he did the Amoeba instore show a few years back…it gives you an insight into the type of person he is…
The Like Rats and Spite vids are higher quality video but the sound is no improvement.
Think this is the first time I’ve seen Justin with a floppy head of hair too.
The best music interviews I’ve seen involve Justin. The Eye one on youtube and the one he did last year with a European mag (can’t remember its name) were really interesting interviews.
i was there this year! they came on about 1am, after electric wizard (oh yes), stayed past their time limit, it was great… proper nutters down the front (therapy? watched as well and were well into it)
might do a full hellfest rundown if anyone’s interested… best fest since glastonbury 2003