A Night with H.I.M 08.07.2007
August 8, 2007 by FromTheCrowd
Filed under Concert Reviews
By Steve Shugg, FromTheCrowd.com Contributor
If you were one of the few thousand people that attended the Projekt Revolution tour recently, you might have had the pleasure of seeing His Infernal Majesty, or more commonly known as H.I.M.; Well ‘pleasure’ might be an overstatement. The groups that they were playing with and the grandeur of this tour should have gotten the band a little more excited to be on stage than they seemed. In fact it was hard to tell if the band even felt like playing that night. It wasn’t so much a concert as it was just the band standing on stage playing their songs.
I’m sure if you are a big H.I.M. fan then it must have been pretty cool seeing your band on stage playing some of your favorite songs, however if you were like me and went into the concert sort of on the fence about how you felt about the band, they pushed you the wrong direction. It was nice to see that they played their hits like “Wings of a Butterfly” and “Killing Loneliness”, however it would have been nice to see them put some effort into their presence. Lead singer Ville Valo didn’t even talk until about 4 songs in, which was only to introduce the new song they were going to play, in between taking drags from his cigarette.
This was upsetting because they have a rather large following, and their sound onstage was pretty impressive, if they were just able to have some fun while they are playing, they could be considered a great band to go see live. Now only having experienced the band once, I will give them the benefit of the doubt and say that this was just the Phoenix stop where they were hard to watch on stage; I’m hoping anyway.
Overall I will have to see H.I.M. again so that I can at least compare this performance with others, however after this show I’m not going to be running out to get my tickets if they decide to come through the valley again.
