If FLESHTIVAL wasn't enough metal for one week, here's some more. Anyway, got nowt better to do on a Tuesday night...
Line-up:
THE TV CASUALTIES: Chaotic horror-punks, Skeletons, blood, theatrics... you'd think it was a Fringe show...
ROBOT DEATH MONKEY: Rowdy stoners. Fond of aliens, cats, and beer.
SKEPTIC: Young lads from Fife, doing that there thrash metal. Playing here to celebrate the release of their debut EP. Too cool for Facebook.
I will have just returned from StrangeForms in Leeds, only to head out again for this. I think that my wife will be questioning my sanity but It needs to be done.
Line-up:
TELEOST: Glasgow based doom duo. Very, very loud. Guitarist driving 3 amps with one instrument. Showing off, really.
SKRAP: Thrash/punk combo from Falkirk, wherever THAT is. First broken string of the evening.
HIGH NOON: Cowboy doom. Yes, really. Yee-haw. Also, the second string break of the evening. Same side of the stage, too.
ROBOT DEATH MONKEY: There's nothing I can say about RDM that you don't know already.
FROGLORD: Swampy amphibious doom. With masks.
Closing out the month with...
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THE OMEGA CORRIDOR: Local indie/post-punks, been around, on and off, for aaaaages. Haven't seen them since 2015, I think. The classic three-piece of Bass, Guitar and Phone. Very much influenced, I think, by Joy Division. This gig tonight is the first time Stephen and Andy have played together for eleven years. Coincidentally, I reckon that was the last time I saw them...
INCENDIARY BATS: Named after a bizarre American WW2 project which proposed dropping bombs loaded with live bats, affixed with incendiary grenades, over Japanese cities. These were to roost in wooden buildings where they would be detonated, causing huge fires and general mayhem. The project was abandoned, and the Americans went with the much more sensible atomic bomb instead. And now they're a local indie punk band.
Four-piece, what one might call 'mature', but still more than capable of raising a racket. Sound vaguely like the Dead Kennedys at times, I reckon. But I'm no expert.
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A double EP release show. This one's going to be chaos. With any luck.
OCH VEY: Joyous Yiddish folk-punk, keeping the klezmer spirit alive. Seditious, anti-authoritarian and pro-Palestine. And quite right too. Much dancing happens.
SHINLIFTER: Another new band for me, in-yer-face post-punk this time, angular and spiky. Attitude by the bucketful, and always teetering on the verge of chaos but never quite falling in. Joined at one point by friendly heckler Colin, cheerfully improvising along to a song whose words he does not know.
VEXATIONS: Local 'off-kilter post punk' quartet giving THEIR new EP a run-through. I HAVE seen these folks before - at THE HOME BAR up the road - and they haven't got any less intense since that gig. Fierce,
Back from the dead! Line-up: STUART HONEYMAN : A very nice young man with a guitar. Songs about relationships, good and bad. Nice to see a ...
