No idea how this one slipped by unnoticed, but regardless: possibly the greatest dance band in the world today, Justice, are playing the Ambassador theater on October 26th. Tickets are 28 euros a pop.

Why are they playing a venue so small? Why was the gig not subject to mass publicity? Why despite the fact that they went on sale at 9am today are they still not sold out?

Who cares? Click here to head over to the purchase page, and be happy.

UPDATE:
There seems to be some ambiguity over whether this is a live show or a DJ set. Ticketmaster has it billed as 'Justice live', while on last.fm it's down as a DJ set. That said, being essentially DJs, what's the difference going to be? At their Oxegen slot this summer the lads seemed to be DJing, but that certainly took nothing away from the show. Either way, here's the poster for the tour, which is to promote the release of their first DVD, A Cross The Universe:

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Death Cab For Cutie will be playing two Irish dates in November to coincide with releasing 'No Sunlight' as a single on November 17 (physical; digital November 10).

November
12 Belfast St Georges Market
13 Dublin Ambassador

Death cab for cutie - No Sunlight

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I'm one of those grumpy old fucks who can't tolerate any of these "young persons" rock music and who constantly make witty jibes like "I wish my hair was emo so it would cut itself". To me rock died with Limp Bizkit and My Chemical Romance can suck my balls.

I found it very strange that not only was I listening to Avenged Sevenfold but that I was actually liking it too. There was something so desperate about their quest to be Guns N'Roses that I just had to adopt them as my own.

They bring their own version of catchy silly metal to the Ambassador tonight and while I am loathe to go down and fork out full price to hang with all the mini-rocker minions at the same time should I venture from Fibbers this eve and find a ticket thats oh so bloody cheap I will be running all the way to the Ambassador squealing like a little girl. Tune in tomorrow (or whenever I post next) to see if I made it.

In the meantime check out Bat country
"He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man"

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So, as often happens, a favourite act of yesteryear or any year come to town and once again I neglect to see them until its too late. But not this time. Oh no! I've always been a casual listener of Korn and have always threatened to go and see them just to get nice and moshy but each time I've never been suitably financially stable/arsed to go and see them. Not until a friend called me in desperation and with a spare ticket for their gig in the Ambassador last night.

So any good? Sure it was. I mean if you like Korn they put on a good show and its always fun to beat the shit out of little emo kids under the guise of moshing. Therein may have lain the rub however as I was constantly reminded that I just am not as young as they are and I probably looked suitably out of place. Not to mention the fact that kids these days just don't know how to beat each other up anymore.

The direction the band have taken with the music lately seems to be more towards that gothic/operatic direction which is fine if you're a wrist-cutter like half the misfits present but a little irritating if you're used to harder fare. "They just seem to have run out of hate" quoted a friend of mine. "He might need to be raped again if thats the case" I thought out loud.

They knocked out a few old classics like A.D.I.D.A.S., Blind and Freak on a Leash but all the new stuff that stopped the moshing just made me wish they'd harken back to the days when they sounded like this:


On a seperate note one of the biggest curiosities I have seen of late is also Korn related and is in fact the thing that I never thought possible: Korn Unplugged.
Now how do a band like Korn record an Unplugged performance? Well quite simply they turn into a samba band and they get the Cure to guest with them. Check out what Blind sounds like sambafied:



Korn play the Ambassador again tonight

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