On a positive note, this wrecked Friday night has been saved by the finding of this shooting of a Two-days-fest which happened in Padova exactly 10 years ago. "Summer of 2001, June 10th" to quote Des Ark. It seems like it was yesterday.
It includes footages of Bellicosi, Encoure Fou, Product, and Ohuzaru.
Ok, nostalgia often gets the upper hand but sometimes there's no need to go that far back in the days, when there are bands that EVEN in the Noughties made such good music.
Afraid! is a five-piece band from Verona. A band that, for a certain period of time, I had to follow anywhere they play.
Their line up and sound have changed a lot through the years.
Just straight after their birth, years 2002- 2003, they sounded like The Get Up Kids (do not mention it to them, please!), then they went through that San Diego screamo phase which lasted for the majority of their years of activity, and then end up with a new-wawish touch in their last record Megalöklift released in 2009.
Now I tend to talk about Afraid! with the past tense due to the fact their last appearance happened long time ago but Afraid! are still in their rehearsal room, working on some new tunes which - according to their own opinion - many people won't like as much as the previous albums.
If you want to have a written definition of what you are going to listen through these pages, think to a somehow poppish and danceable version of the Crimson Curse, and there you go...you will have only a very far idea of what Afraid! sounds like. Definitions suck. The use of your own ears wins.
Italian lady in her early 30s living in the UK with the will of spreading the good has been made in her own country, just for knowledge's sake.
// Conceived in English, pronounced in Italian //
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