My first Shoegaze gig was seeing RIDE at the Roundhouse on the 24th May 2015. I stayed in London, got the tube to Camden. it takes longer to get around London than I thought!
This is before RIDE had put out any new material, so it was a good mix of songs from their early 90′s catalogue on the set list. The noise section in the middle of ‘Drive Blind’was a highlight for me. It was much louder at the Roundhouse. ‘Other highlights were ‘Sennen’ and ‘Close My Eyes’.
The reign of Terror has finally come to an end. The current Teen Titans book is finally ending and the majority of people are celebrating. This book has done such a disservice to these characters and is one of the most infuriating runs I’ve ever seen. The books destroyed years of character development for Damian Wayne and also crapped on the characters of Emiko Queen and Wallace West. Plus the new rostor was pretty unlikable. I hope Tomasi is able to fix Damian’s character after this run shit all over the hard work he and Gleason had done with the character. It still upsets me that this is how this run ends. With Damian in a bad state. This was such wasted potential. I was excited to see this new team. But, it just hurt to see it end this way. I hate what happened with Emiko in this book. She lost that personality that made her special. Why did they go in this direction? Whose idea was it to have this book be this terrible? It makes me kind of sad to see how teen titans rebirth began and how it ends. On a depressing note where none of the characters have truly changed for the better. . Hopefully we get a relaunch in the near future with a better writer and roster. Anyways, I’m going to celebrate this run ending. But, I’m also going to hide in the corner and sigh knowing how it all ended. So much potential. I miss Damian’s former team where raven was on it. If they would have kept that team but added Emiko when Percy was writing her it could have been special. But, sadly we went in this awful angsts fueled direction.
