July 18th - Sarcofago Live

Appropriately for a track on Satanic Messiah this isn't a song about satan or anger or anything similar, but is instead a sing about a different kind of universal experience: the gig that is about to change your life. The room and the people where music is about to change things for you in the most profound way.

I have a couple of candidates for this. One was my first gig. Therapy? at the Royal Court in Liverpool, nearly 32 years ago now. I was 16 and with a group of people I nervously and tentatively considered friends, so what better option than to get them to travel for an hour to see a band I liked more than they did? I think it was a late birthday present even though it was three months after my birthday. Anyway, I needn't have worried. Therapy? were and are one of the tightest bands in the world and the gig absolutely screamed, and for one of the first times I really experienced the connection: these people are here to make music, you are here to experience music, this is communion.

oh, I looked up a song by Sarcofago. They're pretty great if you like slightly Gothy Brazilian thrash.