Gog Promotions Presents: Black Veil Live!
The Cruxshadows
The Screaming Banshee Aircrew
at Black Veil, The Adelphi Hotel, Leeds, 19th July 2003
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Summer 2003 saw the truly excellent Crusxshadows play several gigs around the UK.
The last of these was in Leeds, at the monthly Black Veil event which runs under the
experienced eye of DJ De'Ath, famed throughout the eastern European Goth scene. Support
came from York's Screaming Banshee Aircrew, and the result, sold out weeks in advance
and with a capacity crowd crammed into the tiny upstairs venue, was definetly one of the
high points of the year for the Northen Goth scene.
The Screaming Banshee Aircrew
Despite all the jokey comments from Mr Ed beforehand about this being
an opportunity for the band to really screw up in spectacular style, they
played a very good set to an appreciative audience, indeed much later on,
when the Cruxshadows reached their spectacular encore, it was notable
that several of the people Rouge pulled up on stage were draped in
SBA "Titanic Verses" t-shirts! The Banshee merchandise entirely sold out
during the gig, which is always a good sign!
The Beautiful Deadly Interlude
A legend in the flesh, DJ De'Ath, famed throughout the Eastern European Goth scene, veteran of the Wave Gothic Treffen at Leipzig, with one of the newest member of the Dark Sisterhood - this was her first ever Goth scene event. Nothing like starting as you mean to go on!
The Cruxshadows
Yaay!! The Cruxshadows somehow managed to squeeze four bandmembers plus two dancers onto the tiny stage, and the proceded to turn in the kind of performance that's won them fans and admirers all across the world. Quite simply it was electrifying.
The band's stage act includes having two very energetic dancers on-stage. How these young women managed to do their stuff without either killing anyone, or collapsing into molten puddles of liquid flesh in the searing July heat, is something of a mystery, but manage it they did and their precise and co-ordinated motion definetly added an extra something to the band's visual impact.
The unmistakable Rogue captured in full flight. Note the headset radio-mic.
And this is the moment that Rogue decided to refer to the "other half" of the venue, round the corner from the main room and facing the right side of the stage, as being full of "Hip Hop Fans"! Well, they were a rather strange lot in there, note the reaction of the lady at the front...
Aftermath
Thanks to Trish, Roger, De'Ath and all at Gog Promotions for what has to have been one of the Leeds scene's best-ever gigs!
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