Lost Prophets - Live! (Lost Prophets in General)

Member Name: strange_child

Product:	Lost Prophets in General
Date:	09/09/01 (2883 review reads)
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Advantages: great music, fun, great mosh

Disadvantages: no encore :(

How excited was I when I found out that the <Lost Prophets> were going to play in Milton Keynes? Well I don’t think that words can describe my excitement. Despite the initial annoyance at the postpone of the May gig to September, I think that in the long term it was actually a good thing because I was able to get more into Lost Prophets, and this made me even more excited when September the 7th finally rolled round.

<The warm-up bands>
The support bands were <Forever until October> (a slightly metal group who we all thought were good for a warm-up band, but the lead singer annoyed me), and Kilkus who were a mental band of the same genre as Lost Prophets, and had a wicked DJ who just went mad at every opportunity.

<The Set>
The set was made up of the songs on the album <Thefakesoundofprogress>, so I was familiar with every one, and could sing along! All of the main songs, if not all of them were played throughout the night; <thefakesoundofprogress>, <shinobivsdragonninja>, <the handsomelifeofswing>, etc… I was so excited and overwhelmed about seeing this band that I’d listened to and read about for so long, that I’m afraid that I didn’t make a note of the set list and order…

<The mosh>
The mosh was absolutely amazing, and we were told the next day by the organiser of <The Pitz> that Lost Prophets had said that we were the best crowd they had played to on this tour. At first, there were just a couple of blokes slam-dancing, but by the end of the night, most people in the venue under 25 were either participating in a huge group mosh or pogoing. Throughout the night people kept on blowing up their condoms and throwing them round, I think that by the end of the evening, there must’ve been about five condoms floating about over our heads. I managed to crowd surf twice, which I was really pleased about, and so did half of my mates.

<The merchandise>

there was a big merchandise table at the back, where you could buy CDs of the support bands, and T-shirts of Forever until October and Lost Prophets. The T-shirts for Lost Prophets were pretty kewl; sports shirts with the legend <shinobi vs dragonninja> and a <class of 01 – Lost Prophets>, and t-shirts saying <Lost Prohets…..morethanmeetstheeye…>. It was also possible to get girly vest style tops with the logos on, and all tops cost £10, which in relation is a bargain. If anyone was at this gig and saw a sexy little boy in a vest with the previous legend, then he was called Pete, and he was wearing my top. Coincidentally if you saw another sexy boy in a skinny One minute Silence top and ripped jeans, he is called Chettle and that was also one of my tops, and if you saw yet another sexy boy wearing a skinny black top, a long black skirt and black lipstick then he was called David. Just in case you’re interesting hehehe!

<The band>
I had been told many a time that Lost Prophets were an extremely good looking band, and I wasn’t disappointed! The lead singer is good looking in a slightly pretty-boy way, and there is another that has blond dreads who looked pretty kewl!! Hehehe, but of course that’s not the reason why I went to see them!

<The end>
This was the most annoying part of the evening. When the set was finished, Lost Prophets left, and everyone went silent <or near enough>. There was no encore, nothing. I tried to drum up support for an encore and about five minutes after they’d gone, me and about twenty people were shouting <we want more! We want more!>, and stamping our feet, but unsurprisingly, this was not enough to make them come back. I was pretty disappointed, because I’m used to having bands make an encore all the time.

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