This was a good show, and the heaviest that I've been to for as long as I can remember. To begin with, David Eugene Edwards is one intense dude - on stage, when he's not glaring out at the audience with eyes narrowed, his eyes tend to be rolled back in his head and/or his face contorted like a man possessed. He sings like one possessed, too - there are shades of both Jim Morrison and Ian Curtis in his deep, resounding voice. Live, Woven Hand are a three piece - Edwards, a cracking drummer, and a guitarist who loses nothing by comparison in either volume or urgency - and they create an unholy racket (though 'unholy' is, of course, a misnomer, given the strong spiritual/old testament current running through their music). It was very loud, and many of the songs were just two-minute blasts - there wasn't a lot of discernible melody, though there was a surprising amount of riffage - but it was powerful stuff...
Support act-wise, I arrived halfway through the first, Holy Ghost, who did a kind of punky blues thing, their lead singer (skinny as) I think copping some moves from Nick Cave (in his younger, more piss-and-blood days) both musically and physically - they were okay. The second, a Brooklyn band called Silver Summit, impressed me - they were kind of like a swampier, more textured (even a bit psychedelic in places), and more eastern-influenced Mira (nb: not Mirah), and not a world away from a certain end of the 4ad roster.
