Lacuna Coil – ABC Glasgow
February 4th, 2010 by RBRLacuna Coil
Live at the ABC, Glasgow
02/02/10
With my only previous experience of Lacuna Coil being listening to them on CD prior to this gig, I was a bit sceptical about a ‘metal band’ having 2 singers, one of whom is a gorgeous female.
Was it going to be a bit of a gimmick? I thought it might!
Was it going to be a bit of a letdown? I thought it probably would!
Would they rock my socks off? I had faith my footwear was safe!
But not since Rino Gattuso signed for Glasgow Rangers in 1997, has an Italian export came to Glasgow and kicked ass with so much style!!!
As the crowd anticipated the bands arrival with the lights down, and the backing music playing, Cristina Scabbia, clad in her black and white PVC outfit from the Falling Apart video, and Andrea Ferro marched onto stage, accompanied by the rest of the band apart from bassist, Marco Zelati, who had gone back to Italy to nurse an injured shoulder.
They kicked straight into Survive, as both singers and guitarists worked the stage, with its raised drum platform and staircases. They kept up the pace with songs like Underdog, Not Afraid, Fragments of Faith, Falling Apart.
Andrea worked the crowd up with the bands 2003 single Heaven’s a Lie, before finding another notch and taking us up with Fragile Earth, which was met with much head banging and ‘devil horns’ from the crowd, and just about lifted the roof off the place, with the walls and floor of the ABC trembling in fear under the strain of the immense volume of sound.
After a 2 minute break, the band returned with the singers having had a quick change of clothes and took up where they left off. The second part of the set included a sing along to the band’s Depeche Mode cover, Enjoy the Silence. This slotted in seamlessly and proves how relevant Depeche Mode were, and still are, with the amount of ‘Mode covers that there have been in recent times, notably ‘Personal Jesus’ by Marilyn Manson.
The show was rounded off in resounding form with the crowd singing along to Spellbound.
Before the show, I kinda likened Lacuna Coil to Evanesance. But instead of some tepid, diluted, kiddie metal, LC blasted that notion away with hard rocking, head banging sounds.
Lacuna Coil may be Italian for empty spiral, but there was nothing empty about the performance.
As for support acts, well California’s Dommin were blinding. Looking like a 50s rock and roll band, playing like a metal band and just being good at what they do. There was however, a surreal moment in their set when they played a cover of Cutting Crew’s Died in Your Arms Tonight. There were plenty of rumblings around me of people wanting to know who the support was as they were class. I have to agree.
There were 2 support acts for the UK leg of Lacuna Coil’s European headline tour. The second act up were Dirty Little Rabbits. Not much to say really except that the non UK part of the tour will be getting a better deal than we did as it is only Dommin on the rest of the tour! All I can say is… this is when I went outside for a smoke! Sorry guys.
If I had to sum the gig up in one word… in sospeso (well it was one word in English!!)
Words: Wullie Marr
Photos: Stuart Westwood
