Coheed and Cambria/Avenged Sevenfold w/ Head Automatica

Coheed and Cambria/Avenged Sevenfold w/Head Automatica
Louisville Gardens, Louisville, KY
April 13, 2006

For starters, Louisville Gardens had announced the wrong start time for the show which resulted in my missing almost all of opening act, Head Automatica's performance, but from what little I heard though, they sounded good.

Coheed and Cambria was the second performance for this particular date. They are fantastic musicians so there was no disappointment there. However, the set list was a little on the weak side. They played the favorites but I was looking for some Al The Killer. Claudio didn't have much interaction with the audience but with what little he said, he was sincere and completely adorable. As the show progressed the guillotine on stage opened up to reveal the blade and during "The Final Cut", as one might suspect, the blade fell. "Welcome Home" was the best song of the night which unfortunately got the "pit people" going, but that is a story for another time.

Avenged Sevenfold really put on a good show. They opened to the Beetlejuice theme which wasn't surprising considering they channeled Danny Elfman for the instrumental break on "The Wicked End". They mostly played songs off of City of Evil. The sound was off during the entire performance. The bass was too loud and the microphones sounded delayed from the music. "Trashed and Scattered" was the highlight of the night. A7X guitarist, Synyster, did his requisite solo which was amazing, but what impressed me was his playing one-handed by choking down the neck of the guitar. They're all talented performers, but as everyone knows, he really steals the show.

Best Part of the Night:

Towards the middle of the show I noticed a girl standing by herself in front of us who I thought I had seen somewhere. I did the sneak attack to take a look at her and it was Shadow's girlfriend, Valary who is also A7X's manager. I was so concerned with thinking of something clever to approach her with that I didn't even think about how I would continue the conversation, so needless to say, the encounter was brief. I had seen her twin sister Michelle, Synyster's girlfriend, earlier in the evening. Valary seemed very nice and smiled when I told her how much I liked the band. By the way ladies, if you were hoping they were homely, they're not; they're really cute.