{"id":375,"date":"2012-02-29T14:46:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T04:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/?p=375"},"modified":"2013-04-15T20:33:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T10:33:10","slug":"devin-townsend-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Devin Townsend Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Devin<\/a>Last night I had the great pleasure of seeing Devin Townsend perform at The Factory in Marrickville. This is my review.<\/p>\n

He’s brilliant.<\/p>\n

A Mad Genius you might say.<\/p>\n

I’m not really a metal fan, but his songwriting and musicianship are so good you can’t not be impressed.<\/p>\n

So much energy.<\/p>\n

So profane, so funny.<\/p>\n

Pity the PA lacked definition. Perhaps I’m spoiled by listening to all his studio stuff, and I don’t expect a live show to sound like the CD, but I would’ve liked to be able to make out some of the incredible detail he gets in the songs.<\/p>\n

But I’m not complaining. After a while I stopped worrying about it and just fist-pumped and devil-horned in the air with everyone else.<\/p>\n

Didn’t head bang though, I’m old and it hurts.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t heard his stuff, go and buy Addicted or Ki. The former because it’s a great album of brilliantly written and executed pop tunes, the latter because it’s a terrific prog-rock-metal listening album that’ll take you on a journey from start to end. All with stunning musicianship, produced by an obvious perfectionist and expert at his craft.<\/p>\n

Footnote: Meshugga came on after DT and I watched a few songs but then retired outside. Never having heard them before I decided I’d gotten the gist – I appreciate their technicality but I have to admit, I prefer melodies to growling…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night I had the great pleasure of seeing Devin Townsend perform at The Factory in Marrickville. This is my review. He’s brilliant. A Mad Genius you might say. I’m not really a metal fan, but his songwriting and musicianship are so good you can’t not be impressed. So much energy. So profane, so funny. … Continue reading Devin Townsend Review<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,17],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-awesome","tag-heavy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dj2mn.f8.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}