{"id":5316,"date":"2024-12-22T12:02:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T12:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=5316"},"modified":"2024-12-22T12:02:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T12:02:54","slug":"slipknot-nothing-certainty-back-us-everyone-else-hearts-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=5316","title":{"rendered":"Slipknot: \u201cNothing was a certainty back then\u2026 It was us against everyone else. In our hearts, it still is\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shawn Crahan struggles for a moment to imagine what the Clown of 1999 might say were he to find himself in conversation with the Clown of 2024. Much has changed over the last quarter-century, both within the realm of Slipknot\u00a0and beyond it. Attitudes towards alternative and extreme music, and their compatibility with the \u2018mainstream\u2019, have shifted immeasurably, thanks in no small part to the band with which he and his fellow masked misfits rose to prominence. Tragedy and tribulation have seen membership of The Nine changed almost by half. But perhaps most pertinently, age, injury and the kind of arenas in which they now ply their trade have switched up the rules of engagement under which they wage war against the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat younger Clown would probably tell me to get up off my ass,\u201d Shawn smiles, wryly. \u201cBut that Clown has beaten himself into submission over the last 25 years, in pursuit of this vision. My brain still wants to go 24-hours-a-day, and I\u2019d still love to be out there doing flips into the crowd, but my body hurts, so I\u2019m limited nowadays. Like how I\u2019m having problems with my left knee right now. It just dislocates on its own and I have no idea why. Back then, I wouldn\u2019t care. So many people want to see that old Clown again. But he\u2019s a hard Clown to talk to, a harder Clown to impress, an even harder Clown to find nowadays. That old Clown smirks a lot at the current Clown. And rightly so. If this \u2018new\u2019 Clown had to\u00a0be<\/em>\u00a0that old Clown again, I don\u2019t think there would be any Clown at all\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Stripped-down, sold-out and unapologetic in their savagery, the first dates of the final leg of Slipknot\u2019s 2024 Here Comes The Pain tour\u00a0at Leeds\u2019 14,000-cap First Direct Arena\u00a0and Glasgow\u2019s similarly-sized OVO Hydro don\u2019t feel compromised. Wear and tear are inevitabilities, but compared to the pit veterans old enough to remember the last time the \u2019Knot delivered a set entirely of pre-millennial material, the figures onstage look positively sprightly. Costume plays its part, masking the maturation of a line-up now mainly in their late-40s and 50s. Reconnection to the old electricity is crucial, too: the feral immediacy of a performance built around songs like (sic), Surfacing and Scissors contrasting sharply with the bells, whistles and radio hits of the statelier sets to which we\u2019ve grown accustomed. Rather than just pulling on the old red boilersuits and stepping back in time, however, Clown insists that it\u2019s about never relinquishing the defiance inside.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwenty-five years ago, getting into those red coveralls, I didn\u2019t feel goofy,\u201d he picks up with a frown. \u201cBut I feel goofy in them now. Seriously, how do you [revisit] something that changed your whole life? The world was different. The fans were different. Rock\u2019n\u2019roll was different. Even Kerrang! was different back then. At the same time, I think the old Clown would be proud to see how hard the new Clown works to still be the Clown, and how I don\u2019t do what I do for anyone but myself. Clown doesn\u2019t partake for money or fame, ego or popularity. It\u2019s still about the inner turmoil; about trying to forgive yourself through performance; about getting out there day after day, year after year, to rejoice with people that you love and music that you\u2019d die for; about cutting yourself open and letting all the filth and disgust bleed out. And there\u2019s been a lot of blood lost. A\u00a0lot<\/em>\u00a0of blood\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shawn Crahan struggles for a moment to imagine what the Clown of 1999 might say were he to find himself in conversation with the Clown of 2024. Much has changed over the last quarter-century, both within the realm of Slipknot\u00a0and beyond it. Attitudes towards alternative and extreme music, and their compatibility with the \u2018mainstream\u2019, have 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