No blog last week as I didn't see anything worth documenting, I'm tired of writing about going down the Tap and feeling alienated and weird, so I'm probably just going to write blogs about bands I've seen from now on.
However I would like to just quickly mention this
I have this theory that bands play the Tap to either launch a successful career (worked for The Libertines, Babyshambles and Gallows) or to re-energize a flagging career (Berzerker, Raging Speedhorn, Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster and Inme at least tried), I believe Cokey McFuck Up is doing this for the later.
Friday: Left early for London, got to Victoria, went to the place that does four shot espresso's only to find it's shut down so I went to the place that does better coffee. Went straight to the Mean Fiddler box office for a ticket for Leftver Crack and Conflict next week. Had a look around the music shops, found a bunch of stuff I wanted in Sister ray but decided to save my monies 'til next week, looked around the Anime section in HMV but couldn't really find anything I wanted so I just got the new Black Rebel Motorcycle Club seven inch and got a train to Camden. Went into the second hand place and picked up the new Against Me! album some Broken Bones, Enablers and the special edition of Gallows album (I do actually already have it but I downloaded the stuff on the extra CD and found it's really good, now I can sell my old one on eBay). I don't normally take the free papers but I saw this dude wearing a big cross and I knew it was going to be some Christian propaganda so I took it, how did I know it wasn't just going to be a free newspaper, simple, the guy was Caucasian, now that may sound Racist but it's true, they don't hire Honkies to hand out free newspapers. Felt week so I went into Marks & Spencer's for a fruit salad and a litre of orange juice to get my blood sugar back up. Went back down to Soho to look through the Indie comics in Foleys, went back up to Camden for something to eat at the Vegan Thai/Chinese place (I've been calling it the Vegan Thai place for ages but I just noticed they also have Chinese written on the window which is confusing, maybe they should just have South East Asian there instead). I say this every time I go there but they have the nicest people working there of any restaurant in London, went into The World's End for a drink and noticed Mills with his friend Nick at the other end of the bar. Went over to them, apparently the show had sold out and Nick couldn't get a ticket in time and was going to the Fox if he couldn't get one outside, Mills said he may go with him as He's seeing Waste at Reading anyway. We went outside with Nick to see if anyone was selling a ticket, found Al from Blood Island Raiders and Nick of Kerrang and Witchsorrow, saw a load of young Hardcore kids and old Thrash geezers mingling on the pavement, Nick couldn't get a ticket in the end, Mills offered to go with him to the Fox but he said he didn't want to make him miss a gig so we went in. Had a look at the merch stall, Waste were selling the Louder Than Hell comp for a fiver so I picked that up, convinced Mills to pick up the SSS seven inch and album, the weird thing was they were selling the original Dead & Gone version of the album along side the Earache re-release.
Mutant: They were good considering how young they were.
SSS: The first song they played abruptly stopped when the bass died "We only just bought that round the corner" said Foxy "we wouldn't have that problem if it was from Liverpool." Understand what they said between songs: I barely. Thrash like cunts: they did. At one point Foxy points to a young guy up front and says "this song goes out to him" cheer "don't cheer just yet" points to the guys top lip "that is a fucking disgrace, you should be ashamed of yourself this song is called Thrash With A Small Moustache"
Municipal Waste: before they hit stage people were chanting "Municipal Waste if going to FUCK YOU UP." Tony comes onstage with a cape made from a Carlsberg draping with three X's and two lines underneath them just like the Flex Your Head artwork "Captain Straight Edge" announces Ryan. I get pinned up against the wall by sweaty men as they play. Before they play Terror Shark they get the guy from the pit dressed as a shark to get up and stagedive. They get a bunch of guys up onstage to do a beer bong, there was this guy we saw in the queue wearing Goth make up who got up onstage with them, when everyone started stagediving he panicked and slinked off the corner of the stage, they played I Want To Kill The President three times saying they were going to play it faster each time the third time they did it Tony said they were going to do it Napalm Death style and the Goth guy from earlier (who was actually right in front of me) asked his mate if they just played a Napalm Death cover, people actually started to chant "faster" but the band decided to fuck they off and play the song one more time twice as slow which came out sounding like Rap Metal. One guy up front was fucking Ryan off so he got him to get up onstage, told him to do a stagedive, which he did "now stamp on his fucking face." When they played Unleash The Bastards, my fist went up and I headbanged as hard and fast as I could, someone behind me said it was the heaviest gig they had ever been to, I don't know about heaviest but it was definitely the funest show I've been to in a while
When me and Mills got outside I got stopped by a guy with an Australian accent "you must like Poison Idea" I was actually listening to Pick Your King that morning "tell him about Pig Champion" pointing to his mate "he's dead" then ensued the most bizarre random conversation I ever had, the guy went on about how Pig Champion had seventy four meals a day, how when he was in the hospital he was begging them to feed him chips intravenously, that he ate Mothra and will one day rise again from the sea (how we got into this Godzilla theme I forget) and finally began cramming crisps into his face screaming "FOR PIG CHAMPION." We got to Victoria, I got myself tofu and rice from the Japanese place and Mills tried to phone Nick to say we were getting the train home but could get a hold of him, so sent him a text and we left without him.
I should be going to the Tap on Saturday but I'm not going to write about it for above reasons.
However I would like to just quickly mention this
I have this theory that bands play the Tap to either launch a successful career (worked for The Libertines, Babyshambles and Gallows) or to re-energize a flagging career (Berzerker, Raging Speedhorn, Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster and Inme at least tried), I believe Cokey McFuck Up is doing this for the later.
Friday: Left early for London, got to Victoria, went to the place that does four shot espresso's only to find it's shut down so I went to the place that does better coffee. Went straight to the Mean Fiddler box office for a ticket for Leftver Crack and Conflict next week. Had a look around the music shops, found a bunch of stuff I wanted in Sister ray but decided to save my monies 'til next week, looked around the Anime section in HMV but couldn't really find anything I wanted so I just got the new Black Rebel Motorcycle Club seven inch and got a train to Camden. Went into the second hand place and picked up the new Against Me! album some Broken Bones, Enablers and the special edition of Gallows album (I do actually already have it but I downloaded the stuff on the extra CD and found it's really good, now I can sell my old one on eBay). I don't normally take the free papers but I saw this dude wearing a big cross and I knew it was going to be some Christian propaganda so I took it, how did I know it wasn't just going to be a free newspaper, simple, the guy was Caucasian, now that may sound Racist but it's true, they don't hire Honkies to hand out free newspapers. Felt week so I went into Marks & Spencer's for a fruit salad and a litre of orange juice to get my blood sugar back up. Went back down to Soho to look through the Indie comics in Foleys, went back up to Camden for something to eat at the Vegan Thai/Chinese place (I've been calling it the Vegan Thai place for ages but I just noticed they also have Chinese written on the window which is confusing, maybe they should just have South East Asian there instead). I say this every time I go there but they have the nicest people working there of any restaurant in London, went into The World's End for a drink and noticed Mills with his friend Nick at the other end of the bar. Went over to them, apparently the show had sold out and Nick couldn't get a ticket in time and was going to the Fox if he couldn't get one outside, Mills said he may go with him as He's seeing Waste at Reading anyway. We went outside with Nick to see if anyone was selling a ticket, found Al from Blood Island Raiders and Nick of Kerrang and Witchsorrow, saw a load of young Hardcore kids and old Thrash geezers mingling on the pavement, Nick couldn't get a ticket in the end, Mills offered to go with him to the Fox but he said he didn't want to make him miss a gig so we went in. Had a look at the merch stall, Waste were selling the Louder Than Hell comp for a fiver so I picked that up, convinced Mills to pick up the SSS seven inch and album, the weird thing was they were selling the original Dead & Gone version of the album along side the Earache re-release.
Mutant: They were good considering how young they were.
SSS: The first song they played abruptly stopped when the bass died "We only just bought that round the corner" said Foxy "we wouldn't have that problem if it was from Liverpool." Understand what they said between songs: I barely. Thrash like cunts: they did. At one point Foxy points to a young guy up front and says "this song goes out to him" cheer "don't cheer just yet" points to the guys top lip "that is a fucking disgrace, you should be ashamed of yourself this song is called Thrash With A Small Moustache"
Municipal Waste: before they hit stage people were chanting "Municipal Waste if going to FUCK YOU UP." Tony comes onstage with a cape made from a Carlsberg draping with three X's and two lines underneath them just like the Flex Your Head artwork "Captain Straight Edge" announces Ryan. I get pinned up against the wall by sweaty men as they play. Before they play Terror Shark they get the guy from the pit dressed as a shark to get up and stagedive. They get a bunch of guys up onstage to do a beer bong, there was this guy we saw in the queue wearing Goth make up who got up onstage with them, when everyone started stagediving he panicked and slinked off the corner of the stage, they played I Want To Kill The President three times saying they were going to play it faster each time the third time they did it Tony said they were going to do it Napalm Death style and the Goth guy from earlier (who was actually right in front of me) asked his mate if they just played a Napalm Death cover, people actually started to chant "faster" but the band decided to fuck they off and play the song one more time twice as slow which came out sounding like Rap Metal. One guy up front was fucking Ryan off so he got him to get up onstage, told him to do a stagedive, which he did "now stamp on his fucking face." When they played Unleash The Bastards, my fist went up and I headbanged as hard and fast as I could, someone behind me said it was the heaviest gig they had ever been to, I don't know about heaviest but it was definitely the funest show I've been to in a while
When me and Mills got outside I got stopped by a guy with an Australian accent "you must like Poison Idea" I was actually listening to Pick Your King that morning "tell him about Pig Champion" pointing to his mate "he's dead" then ensued the most bizarre random conversation I ever had, the guy went on about how Pig Champion had seventy four meals a day, how when he was in the hospital he was begging them to feed him chips intravenously, that he ate Mothra and will one day rise again from the sea (how we got into this Godzilla theme I forget) and finally began cramming crisps into his face screaming "FOR PIG CHAMPION." We got to Victoria, I got myself tofu and rice from the Japanese place and Mills tried to phone Nick to say we were getting the train home but could get a hold of him, so sent him a text and we left without him.
I should be going to the Tap on Saturday but I'm not going to write about it for above reasons.