Hi Spooks.
Ok this is a review that was printed in a mag here call BEAT.I
havent yet to right a review but will and post it soon.I am still trying
to come to terms with the totally awesome show i have seen.This review
was written by Linda Coopes.And says nothing about the show.I am sure it
is totally her opinion and i believe she never ever liked the band or
every will as when you read it you will find out.Well here we go.Ohh if
you feel so strongly against the idiot who worte this here is there
email. beat@ozonline.com.au and believe me after reading it that addy
will come in very handy!.
MARILYN MANSON
Enmore Theatre
Strolling into the Enmore tonight, to witness the
Anti-Christ Superstar show, you didn't need to gaze
into a crystal ball to work out that you would not be
entertained by some hippy born in Bethlehem. The
hoards of black-clad ghouls and gothic brides warned
you that the brethren of the underworld were
gathering for a little shin-dig. Then it was
goth-rock-horror show time, and the fun and silly little games
began.
Brian Warner, aka Marilyn Manson - God of Fuck -
card-carrying Satanist - etc, etc, etc - certainly
leaves nothing to your imagination, but quickly manages
to insult your intelligence. He imprudently
underrates a person's power of judgement, and their
ability to distinguish the real thing from a shoddy
imitation. He obviously takes a great perverse delight
in attempting to shock and offend all in his
presence. His excuse for is 'performance art', but
after enduring this no-talent superstar show, one can
only pity such a deluded fool. Sure, all the little
girlies were gushing and sighing and screaming for him to
take it all off, hoping to see the promised fellatio
and over-hyped pyro-manic behaviour. But as
expected, all meaningless babble and not much action -
musical or otherwise. A few minutes of his
predictable anal-retentive antics were slightly amusing
and somewhat morbidly interesting, but after an
hour of suffering such blatant self-indulgence, it just
became truly nauseating.
You'd think Warner would be over his teenage fantasy by
now. Someone please remind him, that he is
not Trent Reznor - never was, and never ever will be.
Nor does he have the haunting charisma or
stunning vocal talent of such dynamic performers as
Pete Murphy (Bauhaus) or Jonathan Davis (Korn).
Warner is a lame joke, but the most frightening thing
of all, is that one suspects that this man does take
himself seriously, and thinks he's a musical visionary.
Anyone can sing a cover of a great song and gain
some attention, but the problem is, behind all Warner's
theatrical rhetoric is an empty void.
There was nothing original or redeeming about tonight's
performance. Warner's not the first man to
smash a guitar, pretend to cut himself, or throw a mic
stand about the stage in a mock temper tantrum.
He even managed to wipe his skinny arse on the American
flag that he had wrapped himself in - a
typical and ironic contradiction - he shits on that
which gives him the freedom to expose himself as a
clown. Hopefully, in a year or so, and after another
dud album, the joke won't be funny anymore, and
no-one will even remember or care who Marilyn Manson
claimed to be
LINDA COOPES