golden week world punk festival part 1
VIVISICK
From Australia, although the singer is a ethnic Chinese from Malaysia.
the singer was on some Iggy Pop shit.
boom! total pro-wrestling style
He spent most of the time in the audience, or rather over the audience, singing from the top of the mob.
MUKEKA DI RATO FROM BRAZIL
These guys were the Best! Shit! Ever!!
Furious but they still had a sense of humor about themselves. They played really short songs like 30 seconds, but somehow the songs were filled with arena-rock bombast and melody. At first I looked at the singer’s belly and sweatpants and thought, ok, it is a stoner who will be lame, but I could have not been more wrong. The dude leapt, gesticulated and performed like a crazy man. He would look people in the eye, which for some reason no one does anymore.
It was one of those high-energy punk bands like IDOL PUNCH where they are hella mad but also just goofy. Singer all wrestling with the guitar player in between verses. They were selling shirts that said SALSA’S NOT DEAD! All the bands that try to be “cool” or super macho or pretentiously saving-the-world-ish: prepare to get destroyed by these guys. They manage to be the maximum high-intensity realness without resorting to any of those gimmicks.
it was one of those drummers that was so huge that he made the kit look like a kid's toy. plus he was making this face the whole time. sort of accross between anger and desperate fear -- what's that called? revolted! yeah, the revolted face. like he just found a huge spider in his bathtub and he had to get it before it got him.
the guitarist was just the most rock being ever.
not only could he do this shit but he could pull it off and not look like some foot-on-the-monitor posing dude. it was like he had just now discovered this move and was as astonished by it as we were.
guns 'n roses. g.g. allin. vivisick.
this!!! this is punk rock!!! fucking right here!! dogpiles on stage!! this is what you don't get from tough-guy bands or super political guys. the mixture of chaos, danger, and immaturity.
sexy dance!!
note pose of singer on left. you don't need a foot-tall mohawk, or a heroin habit, or a long jail record. all you need is that.
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