Date: 29th May 2003
Event: Flint’s concert
Venue: The Egg
City: London
Country: England
Tracklist:
1. Asteroids
2. Aim 4
3. Prescription
4. Kamikaze
5. NNNN
6. mOBSCENE (Flint’s version of Marilyn Manson’s track)
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Review by neko:
Flint played a ‘secret’ gig at The Egg in London on 29th May 03, their first show ever. The band performed at this small venue/club in front of about 150 people. Promoversions of the album tracks had been circulating for a week now giving us a little idea what to expect and the band played mostly these tracks of the album. The show started with Asteroids, and although it was a mostly ‘invited’ audience, they got a great reaction back. we liiikeee it! The sound was very hard, the 2 drummers, Kieron and Tony, obviously played their part in that. Jim’s guitar riffs were heavy and rocked, while Keith was definitely in his element. He gave everything, singing his parts while standing on the barrier, holding on to the roof of the club, getting about as much audience contact as he possibly could. Aim 4 was cool, extremely raw and hard, but just a bit too short. Personal favourite was Prescription, and escpacially also that instrumental middle bit played before it, after Kamikaze. It sounded so much heavier again than from what I heard of the studio version. A negative point was that Keith’s voice often got ‘lost’ under all the heavy instrumental parts. So the track razor (nnnn) (no name no number?) wasn’t that easy to spot, but soon I realized this was the original version of Baby’s got A Temper. It sounded just like a completely different track, obviously none of samples in it and it sounded much harder and rawer. I think there were also some additional lyrics with the track. The show ended with the Flint version of Manson’s track mOBSCENE.
Review from Metal Hammer, 30th May 2003:
Flint Have Arrived!
Last night Flint, the rock supergroup headed-up by Prodigy frontman Keith Flint and ex-Pitchshifter guitarist Jim Davies, played their first EVER gig in an intimate London venue.
But, unlike the swish music industry wankfests that most high profile new acts chose to unveil themselves to the world, Flit opted to unleash their discordant brand of post-millennial punk rock in new London club Egg.
Egg is waaaaay off the beaten track (round the back of King’s Cross station and then a hefty hike), and the decor is an eclectic dichotomy of trashy underground chic and decadent debauched elegance – much like Flint’s music.
At around 10:10, once the hall was rammed to the rafters with a capacity crowd of cool kids from London’s underground punk scene and a smattering of celebs in the know, Flint took to the stage. Sounding very much like a heavier version the late, great Warrior Soul (allbeit fronted by the bastard spawn of Johnny Rotten) Keith, Jim and Co. gave the assembled throng a taste of their forthcoming debut album. Sporting a bleached blonde Mohawk and an old school biker jacket, Keith growled, snarled and shouted his way through the band’s brief forty-five minute set like it was 1977 again! The band closed the show with their punked-up renditions of the Prodigy’s ‘Baby’s Got A Temper’ and their drastic, yet superb, reworking of Marilyn Manson’s ‘mOBSCENE’.
Boys and girls, those of you who have bought a ticket for the Download Festival on Sunday are really in for a treat!
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