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After Soil's amazing success
with their debut album "Scars", we all look forward to their
new album offering "Redefine" due out in the UK in a few
weeks (March 22nd). Tom Schofield and Soil are back in the
U.K. to perform a brief low key club tour and give us a
taster of what "Redefine" has in store for hardcore and new
fans. I went along with better half to catch them at their
last stop - 'The Garage', London.
Its Friday night and I was meant to be meeting Tom before
the show to catch up as I haven't seen him since last years
'Download 2003' and 'Metal Hammer' awards. So we get to the
venue and go round to their tour bus and he's
asleep...so.... after an hour we decide to go into the
Garage and decide to catch Tom and the band after the show -
a heavy night out before, I guess!
Inside its packed, this low capacity venue (500+) is
thriving, it also feels like a sauna...well, thats a good
excuse for a beer (to cool down obviously). You can
literally feel the anticipation in the air tonight, everyone
waits anxiously to see the return of their "METAL HEROES"
and when they hit the stage you instantly know why they are
given that title - whoa!!!
It's nice to see that Tom's refreshed and kicks in for the
opener and newbie "Pride", its a blinding 3 minute rock song
that sets off a pit almost the same size as the floor and
with no security between the crowd and Soil - it sets the
standard for what we're about to expect. The 'crowd surfers'
fly constantly throughout the show and it's chaos at some
points kids hit the stage every second but this is how gigs
SHOULD be.
…………redefined!!!
Now some "old" classic's
emerge such as "Breaking me down" "Need To Feel" and the
ever dark "Unreal" get the whole Garage singing in unison
and new "soon to be classic" songs such as "Obsession"
"Cross my heart" and "Redefine" make everyone in here wish
the album was out right now, if you thought "Scars" was as
good as it gets, think again... that was only the
beginning!
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Tom Schofield - Soil
Tom's performance is powered
and faultless, his mix off AAX's and HH's slice through the
mix and compliments Soil's groove so well. Whether it be the
punk blast of "Only One" or set closer "Halo" he drives the
backbone of this band with such force and purpose....this
band really wouldn't be the same band without him.
So as the night draws to close after the encore of "Black 7"
everyone leaves the 'London Garage' knowing they've just
seen probably Soil's best UK show to date, fingers crossed
they will be back shortly but you just know that they'll be
playing in a venue 4 times bigger than this......here's
seeing them on the next level - I predict Brixton
Academy!!!
Soil return to the Stateside to pick up their U.S. tour
dates - catch them when they're next around….trust me,
you won't be disappointed.
For more information:
www.soilmusic.com
Tom Schofield's Sabian Cymbal Set-Up:
- 20" HH Medium Ride
- 17" AAXplosion Crash
- 18" AAXplosion Crash
- 19" AAXplosion Crash
- 14" AA Metal-X Hats
- 8" AAX Splash
- 10" AAX Splash
- 20" AAX Chinese
- Max Stax Mid
Set
- Max Stax Low Set
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