Blitz ... they're back!!!!!!

[Lyndon NoFuture]

Okay guys, if I'd not been sat down I'd have fallen over. Did any of you chaps know that Blitz (they are Nidge-Blitz now) have just done 11 dates in the USA?

Nidge's words:

It was great, 11 gigs and we played CBGB's in New York. Played all the old songs and everyone said my new band were Better than the original line up. First few gigs we were not on form but by the end we were storming through 18 songs in 45 minutes and left them wanting more. Going back in january and i have just mailed Pete to see if we can do something in Europe.

The us guys i am working with are cool as fuck. Some people have questioned the singers politics but all i can say is that they do the job and they do not do drugs.

No problem you giving my e-mail out to guys who are in the Promotion business.

I want to do more with these guys...tour the world. Have you heard anything good or bad about the tour?

[raf]

Anyone saw them on stage actually ? I mean since they're back...

[stilloutoforder]

almost everyone i talked to who saw it said it was pretty bad. i didnt go. as much as i love blitz i wasnt driving 3 hours to be disapointed.

[raf]

>>First few gigs we were not on form but by the end we were storming through 18 songs in 45 minutes and left them wanting more.

So ? Is this *propaganda* or did your mates see them on the beginning of the tour ?

;D

[stilloutoforder]

i talked to people that went to 3 of the differnt shows. they only did east coast dates but all were pretty bad reports. one kid drove from canada and left after 1 song becuase he couldnt take it

i think its propganda kind oflike the the vice squad section of the burning britain book

[NewtownNeurotic]

Sorry to say that the Philadelphia show was pretty dismal, no disrespect to Nidge for he and Blitz' contributions to punk run deep, but some of the songs sounded, well, just wrong. They did 3 encores (no exaggeration) and several songs were played twice, and the whole show wrapped up with the de rigeur skinhead-sheep-fighting-but-no-one's-sure-why routine. Of course that's not the band's fault but it sure set a bad tone for the whole affair; nor was the crap PA their fault either. Anyhow, like alot of you I too have heard the stories/rumors that Blitz was never in their best form live, which could explain the suspiciously scarce live recordings of them. You'd think Marc Brennan would've dug out a live gig or 2 in the Link reissue days. (Love some of the Link stuff - god bless'em for the Crack LP - but sometimes they remind me of the overseas equivalent to Doug Moody's Mystic label.) Anyway, I still think of the old bands that came through here, some were great (Undertones, Threats, Test Tubes) and some were not quite som much (One Way System, Icons of Filth).
-Carl