missed concerts

that should have said "I only saw 25% of Napalm Death's set"

still, you must have heard a good 90 seconds of music

lol

not mine, but man, feel bad for this dude: https://www.reddit.com/r/Katatonia/comments/18e6tmd/dead_end_kings_got_played_in_its_entirety_tonight/

so I learned of this from a friend I know from Atlanta, but he went to see Katatonia last night. the entire tour has pretty much had two bands on it, from what I've heard, and last night, a third was advertised last minute, called Concrete Sky. My friend often posts little synopses after each band he sees at shows, and he commented that the instrumentalists were great, but was bagging on the vocalist for being off-key, and also hated the lyrics. so Gost comes out, he likes them ok.

then the next band comes out, and he sees it's....Concrete Sky again. and he slowly realizes Katatonia had played a surprise opening set, playing the Dead End Kings album (which he didn't know), and he'd been bagging Jonas Renske's vocals! this second set was the standard set.

well I guess it wasn't clear to everyone and those that recognized Dead End Kings, well, a few of them went home early thinking they had switched the order with Gost...like this guy.

are surprise sets a thing? don't know that I've ever run into that!

the name "Concrete sky" came from a lyric on one of the songs on Dead End Kings, so even when they played they didn't reveal they were Katatonia. I guess it was the ultimate 'true fan' test. if you don't recognize this music, you're not a Katatonia fan and don't deserve to know it was us!

The ultimate “true fan” test of whether you recognize the band you came to see when they come out early(?)

Or do they wear masks or something…?

I mean Katatonia aren't exactly rock stars like King Diamond, I wouldn't be surprised if fans who'd never seen them live before haven't looked at pics and don't know what they look like, maybe have only looked at images of them a few times. I remember the first time I saw the Sword and saw a buncha dudes who look like the guy who fucked omar little's roommate come on stage and was like "THIS is them"?