Wutang @ Hammersmith Apollo - 10.07.07
With such clear visions of this event being moody and thugged out, I was somewhat surprised when approaching the Hammersmith Apollo to be greeted by a half-mile long queue, consisting mainly of middle-class white people and students. Some were sporting Wu-tang's very own clothing brand - "Wu Wear". I'm sure when the Wu designed these threads, they hadn't anticipated they're target audience being so... well lets face it... White!
Doors were supposed to open at 7pm but even at 9pm, they were still letting no-one in. Eventually as peoples patience wore thin, the queue started to move slowly and in what seemed like an hour later we were in the venue being frisked by the security guards checking for weapons and drugs. Judging by the clientele of the queue outside, I'd be surprised if they found a single bag of trees, let alone a Smith and Western! After queuing for another half an hour to get drinks, you could hear the restless crowd chanting "Wu Tang" over and over again. Out of nowhere came Inspekta Deck looking confused and not far behind was Gza. Inspekta Deck was talking to the sound guy and re-arranging his turntables and Gza was re-arranging the monitor speakers around and testing the Mics?! This was clearly their sound check!! Yep, you guessed it - In true Wu Tang style, they'd turned up late! But to their credit,
all managed to attend!
Ten minutes later, all members began to appear on stage, Cappadonna armed with a bottle of Bollinger. In no time, the Wu were in full effect and banging out their classics. The sound quality was terrible and even a true Wu Tang fan would struggle to recognise some of the tunes because of the Mic / Music levels, which of course was down to sound checking. After 'Shame on a Nigga', they got 10 woman on stage to dance and then sprayed them with champagne - 'Very funny' I am sure you are thinking,
but this is Something that Necro did in his UK tour earlier this year and I would of thought Wu Tang would be more original.
Apart from the sound quality, it was an OK gig with in my opinion too much waiting around!
Jim E Ruff - Original Electro Badman
Doors were supposed to open at 7pm but even at 9pm, they were still letting no-one in. Eventually as peoples patience wore thin, the queue started to move slowly and in what seemed like an hour later we were in the venue being frisked by the security guards checking for weapons and drugs. Judging by the clientele of the queue outside, I'd be surprised if they found a single bag of trees, let alone a Smith and Western! After queuing for another half an hour to get drinks, you could hear the restless crowd chanting "Wu Tang" over and over again. Out of nowhere came Inspekta Deck looking confused and not far behind was Gza. Inspekta Deck was talking to the sound guy and re-arranging his turntables and Gza was re-arranging the monitor speakers around and testing the Mics?! This was clearly their sound check!! Yep, you guessed it - In true Wu Tang style, they'd turned up late! But to their credit,
all managed to attend!
Ten minutes later, all members began to appear on stage, Cappadonna armed with a bottle of Bollinger. In no time, the Wu were in full effect and banging out their classics. The sound quality was terrible and even a true Wu Tang fan would struggle to recognise some of the tunes because of the Mic / Music levels, which of course was down to sound checking. After 'Shame on a Nigga', they got 10 woman on stage to dance and then sprayed them with champagne - 'Very funny' I am sure you are thinking,
but this is Something that Necro did in his UK tour earlier this year and I would of thought Wu Tang would be more original.
Apart from the sound quality, it was an OK gig with in my opinion too much waiting around!
Jim E Ruff - Original Electro Badman
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