Evanecance
Now, you could easily blame me for hating them because they're popular, but a couple of months before they got big, a friend of mine recommended some of their tracks and I downloaded them, including Bring Me To Life, which ironically makes me want to kill them. It sounded to me like Theatre Of Tragedy (also a pretty crap band) but without anything that makes them listenable. I deleted the tracks.
Couple of weeks later, I see the Bring Me To Life video on Kerrang and laugh at it, before vomiting at the song and being glad that it'll never catch on. Then they start playing it more and more. Then everyone at school's singing it. Gah.
Pretty standard, untill I go to my first festival- Download 2003. Best fucking weekend of me life, and Evancencasne are on the bill to play their first ever UK show. We figure we'd check it out to say we'd seen them then head off to the other stage and watch someone who didn't make us want to vomit. They came, I seem to remember, after Mudvayne and Spineshank who were both very good, supprisingly, and we lay down pretty close to the stage as not many people were around. There followed the most obviously mimed dire pile of shite I'd ever heard. I woke my mate who I went with up and told him we should go see what was on at the other stage and he said he couldn't be arsed to move, so we stayed to the end (it never got any better) What did we find out when we went back to the campsite? Metallica were playing on the other stage, unnannounced. We went home after that.
( Whillow, Wed 3 Dec 2003, 14:50, Reply)