Gig Four - Screaming Ace, Suborbital Lobotomy, Devilator, Blackened Eyes and Infected Legacy.

Sunday 2nd March, 2014 - South Sea Live.

This gig is one of my all-time favourites. 

It was the birthday of James Walsh, rhythm guitarist of Screaming Ace, and he put together this gig. 

I looked forward to it as I knew there'd be a good audience. However, from the moment I arrived I was stressed. 

Dave, our frontman, had been working in London all week and was to drive up from London straight to the gig. At about 5 I got a text from him saying he was stuck in traffic in Cambridge. We were due on in 3 hours and he was 4-5 hours away. 

The stress kept building. What could I do? Switch slots with a later band perhaps? 

Then I got Nidge texting me to ask what bus to catch because Dave wasn't there, or if I could buy him a taxi from Doncaster to Sheffield because he had no money. I can barely afford a pint, never mind a taxi that'll come to at least £30!

An hour before we were due on, Dave texted me saying that he was now home (in Retford, 30 mins from Sheffield), but was running a bath and had the oven on because he was hungry.

I nearly stabbed about 4 and a half people - until Dave and Nidge walked through the doors 2 minutes after. 

Pricks. 

We had a beer then took to the stage. 

I love to have circle pits, and I'd not had many in my life. I've been in loads, but causing them was a bit harder. It's a metalheads way of showing appreciation for music - a lot like hardcore/metalcore people like to flail their limbs about in a strange, retarded mating ritual to show their 'appreciation' for 'music' by hurting others - except we don't intend to hurt others, and we don't look like kids having fits.

So when our full thirty minute set had the whole room circle pitting for the majority of our time on stage, you can imagine how amazing we felt. Me and Dave kept looking at each other, mouthing the words of James Hetfield: "Yeeeah!" and Lars Ulrich: "Fock!"

At one point I forgot I was the one creating the music as my instincts kicked in and I almost went to jump in a pit myself!

When the crowd are buzzed, so are we, and it's passed back and forth throughout. 

We sang happy birthday to James, drank more, and then left! 

Great show, we loved it! 

Take care,

ARK Walton.