Midnight Assassins

YES!!! We can't wait for some good time rock and roll action with our good pals in ORANGE GOBLIN.
See all the Scousers working this one into their Valentine's Day dates... "It'll be too busy on the 14th love, let's go out on the Tuesday instead..."

MONDAY 22ND OCTOBER 2012 – ORANGE GOBLIN ANNOUNCE UK TOUR FOR JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2013 
 Following ORANGE GOBLIN'S amazing shows supporting DOWN across the UK we are happy to announce that the band will be hitting the road for a full UK headline tour in January and February 2013. Dates are as follows: 
 January 
30th – Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach 
31st – Brighton, The Haunt 
 February 
1st – Southampton, Talking Heads 
2nd – Plymouth, White Rabbit 
3rd – Bristol, Fleece 
5th – Norwich, Waterfront Studio 
6th – Wolverhampton, Slade Rooms 
7th – Sheffield, Corporation 
8th – York, The Duchess 
9th – Manchester, NQ Live 
11th – Glasgow, King Tuts 
12th – Liverpool, O2 Academy 2 
13th – Nottingham, Rock City Basement 
15th – London O2 Academy Islington 

Irish dates will be also be added. 
Special guests to be announced. 
 Tickets available at www.kililive.com, 0844 871 8803 and usual outlets.

INCOMING!

Mutiny Events in association with Candlelight Records Present:

• ORANGE GOBLIN
• ANAAL NATHRAKH
• ALTAR OF PLAGUES
• WINTERFYLLETH
• THE ROTTED
• OCTOBER FILE
• XERATH
• EASTERN FRONT
• FALLOCH

Sunday 13th November
Moho Live, Tib Street, Manchester

£15 adv from Mutinytickets / Ticketline.co.uk / Seetickets.com / Wegottickets.com

Doors 2.00pm

DIRECT LINKS TO TICKETS:  

http://mutinyevents.bigcartel.com/product/candlefest-manchester-sunday-13-nov

https://www.ticketline.co.uk/order/tickets/13262299/candlefest-manchester-moho-live-2011-11-13-14-00-00

http://www.seetickets.com/Event/CANDLEFEST/Moho-Live/585178

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/134208

Claws On Roadburn

Hello from Tilburg. Ste & Patchie here, Ste at the keyboard, Patchie milling about in the background drinking 7up lager and shaking a lot.

It's Day 2 of the Roadburn Festival today, here's a brief recap of Day 1. (I'm sure you'll get better reviews elsewhere - go to google and type in "Roadburn 2008 review" and enjoy the professionals eye).

We arrived in Holland via plane, then from Schiphol to Tilburg on train. I'm on mentioning this because we had a small incident on the train where we found bullets in our carriage. This wasn't reported to the authorities though because the police might have been involved and we just couldn't be bothered with the hassle of it all!

Next incident: We found that, when we got to the hotel, some fool (I won't mention names to protect the stupid) had booked us in on the completely wrong dates. We arrived on the 17th of April and the booking were made for the 17th of March. Doh! Ok, I will mention names - it was me who got the booking all fucked up. Soz Patchie lad.

Enough of our own problems though. Here's what I can remember from Day 1 of the festival:

We arrived about an hour before doors opened and sat in the street outside a bar drinking Dutch beer while watching rock stars mingling with the crowd. Lee Dorrian and Jimmy Bower to name but 2.

The event is being held at the 013 club. I was told (by a taxi driver on the way home) that 013 is pronounced as "Nil Derteen club" by the Dutch.

There are 3 main rooms for gigs in the venue. I've been watching lots of stuff in the main room so far (Down, Grand Magus, Capricorns) and I saw some in the "Green Room" (Diagonal, The Devil's Blood). There is another room called the Batcave where bands are playing but so far I haven't had a chance to get in there! I think I'll be in there later on today though,

You can't buy beer or food with cash at 013. Instead, you need special blue tokens which you can buy at vending machines all around the club. This is how lots of festivals seem to prefer money to be spent these days as it means barstaff won't be tempted to skim a little for themselves from the tills!

The merch here is out of this world. They've got a whole floor dedicated to selling you everything that you could possibly want. This includes a cloak room to store your newly acquired swag, haha.

Orange Goblin are here, providing a DJ set for people who aren't in any of the rooms watching bands play.

No one was allowed to bring cameras to the 013 on the 1st day of the event, at the request of Down. I think it's something to do with a DVD that they're putting together or something. That said, there are people with cameras everywhere at the venue. Who listens to orders in rock and roll huh?

The 013 is a smkoing venue. Smokers from England are loving this!

They have vegan curry for some reason, and you can buy eggs rolls from vending machines for 2 euros a pop. Patchie is well fed!

Today Patchie keeps finding 10 euro notes in his clothes from yesterday, 40 or so euros so far!

We've seen lots of friends here - some who we've missed, some who we haven't. Plus we've been making lots of new friends and acquaintances too. You know how it is, Scousers also make friends when they go around the world and there's beer involved.

There's a video circulating amongst our group of Kirk Windstein (from Down and Crowbar) being made-up to look like King Diamond. It's Phil Anselmo putting the make-up on him, meanwhile Pepper Keenan is also on the video in the background singing The Family Ghost, hahaha.

Our hotel is on the other side of town from the gig, so it's costing a small fortune to get to and from all of these great shows every day!

Kirk kissed Patchie on the cheeck and told him he is not allowed to get a shave. Ever.

Our limited Dutch is improving. This has just been helped immensly by watching an episode of the A-Team with Dutch subtitles. Mr T used the walls of the elevator to reinforce the inside of a baker's van and they hid guns in the bread.

We have also found a supermarket selling minatures bottles of spirits for 2 Euros each; we've been buying up all the Jagermeister and smuggling them in to the gig to feed to Kirk.

At the end of the Devil's Blood concert, the singer came back out and doused Patchie with pig's blood.

we Lost Toby on the way home and it cost us 20 Euros.

We've been making a sort of Claw video diary while we've been here, adding stuff all the time and having fun with masks and stuff. This is our idea of fun anyway! Hopefully I'll throw some of the clips up on this page for you to see (and no doubt shake your head at) when I get a chance ok.

Today (Day 2) of the festival we are looking forward to seeing the following bands:

Danava
Witchcraft
Trouble!!!
Church Of Misery
and many many more.

The one negative thing about being here in Tilburg throwing claws at everything and everybody is that Our Claw isn't here to join in with the fun. Really, he's sorely missed.

Orange Goblin @ Birmingham Barfly, 1st March 2008

This week we went to 2 gigs, both in Birmingham, both at the Barfly. The 1st one was to see Mayhem being serious and dark in full-on black metal mode - the 2nd of the two was UK doom heroes Orange Goblin in full-on party mode.


This was a great gig. Orange Goblin aren't on a proper tour right now (they seem to have been playing one-off shows at various Barfly venues around the UK with each gig a month or so apart), but if their sets are anything to go by they still are on top form nonetheless. This was a set heavy with O.G. favourites (including "Scorpionica", "Quincy The Pig Boy", and the mighty "Some You Win Some You Lose") as well as a couple of cover tunes - Metallica's "Seek And Destroy" and Motorhead's "No Class" both making an appearance in the set list.

We only read about this gig a few days ago, at the afore-mentioned Mayhem gig, on a poster by the merchandise stall! Then, at the Orange Goblin gig, we saw the very same poster again and singer Ben Ward happened to be standing next to it when we were talking amongst ourselves about why we had traveled down from Liverpool just to see his band. His reply: "We're gonna be back in Liverpool in October! See you guys there!".

Orange Goblin, Liverpool, 12 Jan 08

Saturday saw the first gig of the year for us, Orange Goblin at the Barfly in Liverpool.
I'd just like to say that this is the first well atteneded gig I've been to in my hometown for a long while, and I can't believe how many people were wearing Down t-shirts there. Is that was passes for our scene here? If you went to Manchester or Birmingham it would be all High on Fire/Trouble shirts, none of this singing "Revolution is my Name" at the bar.

I was working until 930, so by the time Ste and I got to the gig we had missed the first two support bands, The Bendal Interlude (who I haven't seen for over a year, since they supported Church of Misery and insisted on playing a set that lasted for about 24 hours) and Bow and Arrow, who I was gutted to miss because I really like them. SSS were on when we arrived, not really too fussed on them to be honest.
Orange Goblin are feelgood stoner-type doom n' roll (i think I just invented that) and they got the crowd going really well. Making the cardinal mistake when you play in Liverpool of mentioning football and therefore dividing the crowd, they still managed to leave everyone feeling sweaty and grinning at the end of the set, judging by the look of everyone coming out.
A cover of Motörhead's "No Class" went down well at the end, even if only about 5% of people there recognised it.
All in all, a good start to this year's tour, I just hope they have more staff on the bar next time we're in the Barfly!

Video here.

Orange Goblin @ Liverpool - Video

I recorded a couple of clips at the Orange Goblin gig in Liverpool last night, I used a new video camera that I bought about a month ago.

I'm not happy with this clip - It seems that the video camera's microphone records a very poor sound quality. It was a good gig anyway.