Went to see IAMX at Debaser yesterday night. Haven’t really listened to their music before but I’ve been listening to a couple of their albums and I liked it.

The stage show was supposed to be spectacular, like “Soft Cell on better medication” someone wrote. I don’t know if I’d go as far as saying that the show was spectacular, atleast not compared to 5F_55 when they appeared at the Wave Gotik Treffen some years ago or The Retrosic when he made his first appearance at WGT back in 2007. Sure, the IAMX crew hade some nice and well designed costumes and all the band members were active and played their part, but spectacular? No.

Musically speaking they did a good job. Chris Corner has a good and interesting voice which is clearly able to perform live as well (far too many singers in the electronic genre have a problem with that – e.g. Rotersand).

However – what really pissed me off with this concert was the timing. They got on stage more than one hour and ten minutes after the announced time! Without anyone announcing that they were delayed. They have effectively stolen one hour of my life! That is remarkable to such a degree that it overshadows the actual performance. Atleast in my book it does. If I’m late for a meeting I usually call ahead to notify whoever it is I’m going to meet that I’m late, anything else would display an utmost lack of respect for that other persons time. The way I see it I am a customer who has payed for the delivery of a performance by a band called IAMX which is supposed to occur at a certain time (the web site states “20:30 approx.”, but more than an hour late is outside of what I call “approx.”) and at a certain place. Now, why is it that some artists think that the relationship customer<–>supplier suddenly no longer is in effect? Is it because they think it has something to do with their perceived ’status’ and that they therefore no longer have to care about what people think about them because one or two pissed off ‘customers’ won’t matter anyway?

I’m sorry, but that kind of behaviour just ruins it for me. I’m sure that there are many good explanations/excuses for the delay, but right now I couldn’t care less about them. I could’ve cared around 20:45 last night.