Hadouken!

Right, a week ago today I was offered a place on the list for the Hadouken! show at Carling Academy Birmingham, I wasn’t in a position to turn it down because, a) I hadn’t been to a show for ages, and b) Hadouken! are well on their way to becoming one of the biggest bands in the UK. I’m not the biggest Hadouken! fan in the world, as someone who would rather spend their time reading a good book than going out and getting drunk, songs like Get Smashed Gate Crash hardly ring true with my life, but they put on a pretty good show, so I can respect that while they may not be my cup of tea, they are in fact, a pretty good band who obviously take a lot of inspiration from UK hip hop, not my favourite hip hop, but it’s still hip hop. Hadouken! played through new material from their recently released Music For An Accelerated Culture, along with the more familiar songs such as Liquid Lives and Declaration Of War, what really got me was when they came back on for an encore and played The Prodigy’s Breath (!?), again, I’m not a fan of The Prodigy, or especially that song, but the rendition was faithful to the original, but not a complete rip off, so they pulled it off pretty well, the audience loved it, and I guess they know best. Overall it was a great gig for fans of the band.

Truth be told I don’t have the time to write an in depth analysis of the gig, so if you want to know more, check out one of their shows, you will be pleasantly surprised, you could also check out the video below, which also includes footage from the very show you’ve just been reading about, along with some of the HMV instore on the same day. No, I’m not in the video, I did my best to get in the shot, but they obviously didn’t want to use anything with me in it…I wonder why.