The night started with three spectacularly badly chosen opening acts which were incompatible musically and of varying levels of ability and seemed to only manage to bring one fan between the three of them. Finally, several hours after the doors opened the first of two Belgian bands took to the stage - Mental Circus, here forThe night started with three spectacularly badly chosen opening acts which were incompatible musically and of varying levels of ability and seemed to only manage to bring one fan between the three of them. Mental Circus Finally, several hours after the doors opened the first of two Belgian bands took to the stage – Mental Circus, here for their first UK gig. After the intro tape (which is also the opening of their album) they took to the stage. They only have one album so as you'd expect most of the set is based around songs from that album. They also do a very good cover of the Evanescence song "Bring me to life". The band all put in good performances and guitarist Yorgo moves around the stage to use the space. Singer Sanne does a great job of engaging the audience as well as singing. It's a great set and it's just a shame that the combination of awful weather, poor promotion and valentines day served to limit the size of the audience. Next up were the headliners, Hell City, another Belgian band. As with Mental Circus this was my second time seeing the band live – the last [...]
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