Little Axe

Out to see Little Axe with Dan last night. With a lineup of Doug Wimbish on bass, Keith Leblanc on drums, Adrian Sherwood invisible but present on treatments and Skip McDonald on lead vocals and guitar, it was an excellent, but all too brief set. Review to follow. One little rant though - people taking pictures in gigs. Good lord, you say, what a blinding hypocrite you are. And I bow my head in shame, but… there was this man next to me with a very long lens like a snout (or male member) continually intruding into my field of vision. He was balancing his camera on a tripod, but wasn’t using flash and I suspect was an amateur (the pros had all bagged the spaces immediately in front of the stage and were knelt down there). Thing is, I don’t mind someone taking a few shots, but this guy spent the whole time either endlessly snapping Skip McDonald or reviewing the shots he’d taken. How many bloody pics can you take? He was really irritating, but in the end the music was so good and I was dancing a lot of the time with my eyes closed that he didn’t spoil it for me. After all, a gig’s for enjoying the moment isn’t it, not for spending looking at an LCD screen? Which reminds me of the most extreme/amusing experience of this sort I’ve had, which was at the Laibach gig a couple of years back. This tall, shaven-headed chap was standing next to us, dressed in standard issue military dress jacket and absolutely obsessively taking pictures with his fairly old-looking Nokia cameraphone. So far, so what. However, a little later I spotted him right in the centre of the moshpit in front of the band (we were just outside the main ruck). He was still busy with arm aloft, taking and reviewing his blessed pictures as he was violently pushed this way and that like a weeble in a storm. Heh heh.