I don't often see an artist twice in one year. In fact I don't often go outwith Glasgow to see an artist. However after seeing Tremonti in June earlier in the year and then announcing that he would be back in Scotland later in the year; I was eager to grab the opportunity. Also Campbell being a big Tremonti fan since the start meant we were good to go.
We arrived at the venue bang on 7pm which the ticket stated thats when the doors open. So we were surprised to find that there was no queue unlike the academy earlier in the year where the queue was huge at doors opening time. As we got in the first band, Disconnected, were already on. I was in disbelief. I love catching support bands and it turned out the song we arrived to was to be the last in their set. It seems quite a few other folk were caught out by the early start too as it was probably about quarter full at this point. After I got home I did check various websites/social media about start times but couldn't see anything about change in start times.
Anyway I was still pretty excited and did not ruin what was an excellent evening. The main support act The Ravens age came on and powered through a set of rocking/metal songs. Their new singer really came to the fore as an engaging frontman. While the rest of the band seemed to be having the time of their lives. And quite rightly so as they have amassed a good collection of songs to show off.
Now for the main act of the night Tremonti who were just as good as when I saw them back in June. While the skeleton of the set remained the same with the likes of "Cauterize", "Another Heart", "Dust" and "So you're afraid". Their did seem to be more songs off the new album creeping into the set with my personal favourite "Traipse", then "Trust" and "The first and the last". Then you have the already classics "Dying Machine", "Take you with me" and "Bringer of War". Personally I think the selection of so many songs off the new album speaks volumes on how good it is, as its knocking out of the set some big hitters from other albums.
I have to say I pretty much enjoyed the whole set. There was only a few song section where I didn't enjoy as much - being "Flying monkeys" and "Radical change". These are clearly popular songs though but I'm afraid they are slightly weaker tracks than the others for me. But I think everyone will have tracks from artists they don't like as much. On the whole though the night proved once again that Tremonti are a band on top of their game and one of the best bands on the live scene. He did say at the end they would be back. But obviously with Mark's Alter bridge commitments next year it may be a few years. Oh well just as well I got to see him twice this year! Totally worth it!!
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