Manchester, Roadhouse November 15, 2000

I had been waiting to see Sunna live for ages after first seeing their video for 'Power Struggle' on MTV2. I loved the song ever since. The Manchester Roadhouse is an extremely small venue, so the band went to the bar before they had to go onstage to talk to the people that had come to see them. Although most people hadn't come to see Sunna who were supporting for Sona Farique i was thrilled to get to talk to Jon Harris and shake his hand.

They started with "preoccupation" which is one of my favourite tunes from the album "one minute silence". The rather large Richie Mills was perched on his drum kit pounding out the beat every second of the way. Flatline was adding the atmosphere that surrounds the whole venue. Shane Goodwin was playing the spine shaking bass that could be felt all around the body with each pluck of the strings. Ian MacLaren's guitar sounds like it can make any sound as good as a keyboard and reminded me of Tom Morello's guitar playing from RATM. Whilst Jon Harris's voice whipped the crowd into a mad frenzy.

The crowd were loving every tune that they played. Once "Power Struggle" came on i was ready to go moshing but no one else was up for it (and crowd surfing alone is stupid). It was only a short session lasting just over 30 minutes. With tunes that included "Insanity Pulse", "Forlorn", "Grape", "7%" and the final song of the night was b-side "Guinea Pig People", which the crowd loved as it is a extremely loud song.

All in all I think that Sunna can only go on to bigger and better things judging by the affect that they had on the crowd.

Kevin Stonebanks

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