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Some
pictures and waffle from a nite out at The Paradise Bar, New Cross, Rocklands, December
2001... |
Being a Mo Solid Gold obsessive, I was happy as fuck to check
out another band managed by the lovely Matt at CEC, especially when he slapped on this
mental-as-fuck-rock CD as a taster. Then Conor also recommended them on the Grapevine, as Kinesis had played with them...
 Waddya know, they
were coming to New Cross (11 December), so no excuse for missing them. The Paradise Bar on
a Tuesday night is brill. Free in if you get there before 9pm, alternative pop disco type
stuff and a good atmosphere.
There were three bands on. The first, I send best wishes (and more song writing wishes!
to).
Second on were The Eighties Matchbox B Line Disaster. They were fucking
brilliant. Really exciting but with an underlying r'n'b sensibility to their wildness that
was more than just show. |
 There were at least three national
publications (you don't usually see ONE such journalist in Rocklands!), various other
music industry folk (labels, managers, promotions etc) and a local crowd who got the show
of their life - provided half by the two main bands and half by the flashes of five or six
cameras going off at once, while the whole thing was filmed. In a tiny venue this kinda
activity looks like you're watching the gig on strange drugs.
I was too busy watching the show to get many pix, as you can see...
I also liked the new wave vibe of British Sea Power too. The twinny fellas are really
androids by the way, programmed to behave like human rock stars. I was well impressed.
Bumped into various other band members there too, it was obviously a big night on the
local calendar.
Proper journalists did reviews of the gig, so I'm saved trying to articulate having your
veins nearly burst by the blood that must speed around when something makes your heart
beat like a hammer. Exciting bands do it for me every time. Besides, the reviews will have
run, probably with the lists of bands you can pay attention to, new year fever and all
that.
Whatever the reviews said, like Miss Black America, The
Eighties Matchbox B Line Disaster will play the NME On Night at Camden Monarch on
January 17th with Hogboy, so there's obviously a 21st century punk vibe going
overground.
Good.
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Even when
it's out of fashion (if media are still working that cliché this year), energetic, anhems
will have impressed so many music fans and come at a time when zines and other alternative
media are getting organised into mutual support for this scene. I wish everybody involved
on this vibe - which has thrived through the 90s from the arrival of Manic Street
Preachers through to fellow van-guarders These Animal Men/S*M*A*S*H becoming the
increasingly revered Mo Solid Gold - the best of love and luck!
(More Matchbox B-Line stuff at Evening Star 12)
There is a pirate history in the Rocklands area and the
guitarist from The Eighties Matchbox B Line Disaster had skulls and crossbones on his
strap. Now if that's not a sign, I don't know what is!
Lotsa people all over the place are highly recommending lotsa bands so let's hear and end
to this nothing happening in the UK bollocks... AND ROCK! |
The return
of the Jedi has started...
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