With action on the New Blood Stage already well and truly underway (see our separate review), Babylon Fire kicked off proceedings on the Sophie Lancaster Stage with their classic-inspired metal, delivered with grunt, grit and fist-pumping angst - but, it was over on the main Ronnie James Dio Stage that the real fun was happening,With action on the New Blood Stage already well and truly underway (see our separate review), Babylon Fire kicked off proceedings on the Sophie Lancaster Stage with their classic-inspired metal, delivered with grunt, grit and fist-pumping angst – but, it was over on the main Ronnie James Dio Stage that the real fun was happening, as the comic book freakshow that is Evil Scarecrow was perhaps the most entertaining way possible to get the second day proper underway! The local heroes haven't had too far to travel, and they immediately got nearly everyone in the huge crowd of earlycomers (those in the know reckon there were more people enjoying the 'Crows than had watched Down the previous evening!) smiling and dancing along to their infectious humour and tongue-in-cheek songs: they even managed to get a heavy metal-style ballroom going where the moshpit normally would be during 'Dance Of The Cyclops'. [Sidebar: if even half those who enjoyed the Scarecrow's set bought their new album, 'Galactic Hunt', when it is released in October, the pathetic Top Ten charts would suddenly be a lot more interesting... just a thought!] The avant-garde blackened punk'n'jazz brawl of Shining – who just 12 hours earlier [...]
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