Every Time I Die w/Maylene & the Sons of Disaster, London Borderline, 21^st December 2009

Now some of you may have read my Taste of Chaos review of both ETID and MATSOD. If you did, then you will be well aware of how pumped on this show I was. However, I was one of the unfortunate souls who missed out on getting tickets. Despite this, I braved the journey to London through the snow, slush and sleet to interview MATSOD and was fortunate enough to find out Santa had been smiling on me and I did actually have tickets for this show. Being a true Brit, student, and under the guise of a proper journalist I spent the 2 hours prior to Maylene’s set stood in pub celebrating my early Christmas gift and getting right into the Christmas Spirit.

By the time I went into the Borderline, I was no longer feeling the cold, or any pain, which is just as well because Maylene and the Sons of Disaster put on the show I had hoped for at Taste of Chaos and I was battered by other enthusiasts dancing to their Southern sounds. They were loud, they were kooky, I felt like saying “yeehaw” on more than one occasion. This pub style environment is definitely the one to see MATSOD in and I would recommend everyone do it just for a good time.

After Maylene’s set I decided I was front rowing ETID, and I was going to commit to that decision if it killed me. Their set was blinding, literally, I don’t remember seeing much but my throat was hoarse and I remember being incredibly wrapped up in the entire situation. I punched the ground, I concussed myself off a monitor, someone used my back as a spring board to get onto the stage; madness erupted in the Borderline during this set. The photos of bloody handprints on the walls, and the tales of the soul whose blood it was being taken to A&E after the show are just a hazy reflection of what happened in Borderline that night. It will go down with my as the best show that I don’t remember of my 21 years.

Today, on Christmas Eve, with a lump on my head, some ridiculous bruising all over my legs, and a bit of a gammy hand, I wish all of MATSOD and ETID a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and please don’t stay away for too long.

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