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It's 6:10pm and the writer finally joins the back of the Zodiac queue (which leads down a mysterious dark ally way) to see Italian Goth metallers, Lacuna Coil. After a brief wait, the crowd are finally let in and the first response from the writer as he enters the venue is 'Whoa, tiny as!', the upstairs part of the club where the gig is being held only holds 450 people, it soon fills up to the brim…

After what seems like an hour, Christina Scabbia finally takes to the stage and announces that the set will be split into two parts…An acoustic set and an electric set. The rest of the band then take to the stage and open with a track from the latest album 'Comalies' entitled Aeon. The acoustic set only consists of about five or six songs but they work very well and Christina is stunning tonight (In the vocal and of course, the looks department). Co-vocalist Andrea announces that this will be the last song of the night which raises much laughter from the audience, then the band close the first half of the show with 'Heaven's A Lie' and the crowd descend back to the bar for what seems like half an hour…

Twenty minutes later an intro tape starts and the band launch into a powerful track that goes by the name of 'Tight Rope' which gets a huge round of applause. After one or two more tracks from Comalies, the band announces they are going to be playing a new song called 'A2' and I must say, it is amazing! The band play a few tracks from the first 3
albums which goes down rather well with the hardcore fans, but sadly, the majority of the crowd seem to be a bunch of Kerrang kiddies who only know 'Swamped' and 'Heaven's A Lie', the songs that made the band as well known as they are.

The band finish up with an electric version of Heaven's A Lie which sends the crowd insane! They then return for an encore of 'When A Dead Man Walks' (Which in the writer's opinion, is one of the highlights of the evening) and before the last song Christina makes an emotional speech about 'How we are fucking nothing without you' and 'We love you
very much' which then possesses a member of the audience in a drunken moment to shout out 'I'd fuck you anytime!' which causes some nearby laughter. The band then finally closes the set with the modern classic, 'Daylight Dancer'.

The phenomenal response from the crowd and the sold out venue just proves to show that Lacuna Coil are headed somewhere big, very big. A good, solid show from the band although the writer and a few others do start to get a little bored at one or two points during the show. A good show nonetheless.