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My what an eventful month!
Pleased BE WARNED this update of ‘Rock and The City’ (I feel a bit like Carrie Bradshaw at the moment, except this is music and not all sex) Contains…OFFENSIVE MATERIAL!!!!
Now that I have your attention…
You know how excited I was to be going to see The Strokes play at the Palace…well, unfortunately I had to miss them. (Antibody’s Dave and Steve went and said they were fantastic, they got to hang with them backstage…rats…) Spencer rang and informed me that Cow Penalty were to support The Sailors for their album launch at the Tote that night. Not such a bad thing after all since I got to play and was once again very impressed by The Sailors. AWESOME! There was a decent crowd there too which made it all the more fun. This time The Sailors played as a three piece…2 guitars — Vernon, Victor and Dempster on drums (the smallest stripped back sparkly drum kit I have ever seen). At first I thought they were more interesting as a 2 piece but some songs sounded better with the three of them. Especially since they all sing and there was more bass on one of the guitars. I had so much fun I bought their album, Violent Masturbation Blues, out now on Dropkick Records, and got them to sign it (vinyl of course). The album reminds me a bit of The Blues Explosion but much more sloppy and naughty. You know their lyrics are so…crass but funny…I was wonderin’ if the joke would wear off after a few listens but…it hasn’t yet.. My favourite song lyrics are:
Jahoobies and Catanga’s…shhh take off your bra
I punch you with the fist of my cock
I punch your ass with the fist of my cock
Sea Shanty
DJ Vernon, he’ll leave your ass burnin’
and if you’re not gay, you’ll soon be turnin’
got a cock up his ass
got a cock in his gob
that muthafucka is a human shishkabob!
My Baby’s Got a Fine Vagine
Fingers up my ass in the tuck shop cue
I got the teenage homosexual blues
How naughty those boys are!!!
Next band outing – The Impossibles, featuring my friend James (Dan Matsuma/Nursery Crimes) on noise guitar, Adalita on guitar, Raoul on sampler (Magic Dirt) and their house mate Ben on guitar as well. Their set was mostly improvised, atmospheric, noise stuff. The only two spoken words were by Adalita, “I’ll have a pizza …with olives“. It had moments of glory, moments of chaos. James nearly ripped my ears off with his guitar noise! Ouch! It’s better not to stand in the direction of his speaker box! Speaking of Magic Dirt, I saw their Supagloo video on ‘Rage’ the other night, it’s sooo cute and boy do I look like a nasty piece of work!! Check it out at: Magic Dirt.net/news. Next to take the stage were The Blue Stripes. They reminded me of a band I liked a few years ago called Mouth. Very angst, screaming vocals, Sonic Youth type guitar and bass. The drummer, Renato, who once starred in a Moler video, was exciting to watch with his drum kit falling apart around him. Top stuff guys.
Went to see Melbourne’s darlings, The Underground Lovers, however I missed watching them ‘cos I ended up in the public bar chatting to friends and I only heard them as background music in between conversations. It seemed that a big fist fight outside the venue was the highlight of the night as everyone piled to the windows to watch the action! What I did hear sounded dreamy and pleasant. One of these days I’ll have to actually watch them!
Speaking of offensive and “controversial” lyrics, I actually went to my first big stadium gig in ages: Eminem. Now, I am not a huge fan of rap (love the Beastie Boys) but I really wanted to go see the biggest rap concert that Australia has eva seen. I had heard Eminem on the radio a few times, had a little chuckle listening to his ‘oh so politically incorrect’ lyrics… I think he’s quite funny, he’s kinda like Elvis back in the 50’s where the majority of white parents thought he was singing “the devil’s music” (‘black’ music) and would corrupt the kids with those gyrating hips. Eminem is the same thing but more extreme, he’s got the looks but he also has a gun and a chainsaw! Our own Prime Minister wasn’t keen on letting Eminem enter the country, so the tour was later dubbed, “Eminem – The Visa Approved Tour”. Boy, you just can’t get better publicity for free. The opening of his show was kinda like Blair Witch crossed with Halloween with footage of a couple of fans tracking down Eminem to a scary Amityville horror/psycho house…(I love horror …but I’ve actually seen friend’s houses that look much more scary in real life). WOW. When the songs started, the bass just about blew me to the back of the stadium, thank god there was no guitar, I’m sure my ears would have bled. I was pretty much in the mosh pit, not too crowded, perfect view, the stage looked a bit like an amateur theatre production set of ‘the ghetto’. Between songs they would do these very theatrical skits about drinking and taking drugs. Eminem would pretend to skull Malibu stolen from ‘mum’s alcohol cabinet’, he’d pretend (or did he?) to take Ecstasy, the crowd screaming back, “pop the pills, pop the pills“, he’d reply, “You people in Melbourne are nothing but a bunch of drug addicts“…massive screams of approval…the big screen flashed ‘subversive’ messages…smoke more weed… It was a funny experience. When a song started, the whole crowd would be amped and instead of slam dancing like you would see at a punk/rock concert, they would started groove dancing and doing hand signals in the air, so very non-violent, so very young suburban…I think I only saw one crowd surfer. Eminem even starts up his own hand signal, “put your pistol fingaz in the air“ after telling us a little story about his court cases with his wife and mother. They had a giant blow up penis they threw into the crowd, a giant blow up bandaged woman with syringes sticking out of her, giant blow up hands giving ‘the finger’. Most of all I loved the little intermission cartoon movie of Eminem sending himself up…hilarious…I wish I had a copy of it to show all my friends…very funny stuff. I totally enjoyed the show even though some songs got a little boring sometimes. What amazes me is all the press this guy gets…it’s very interesting reading – just look at how I’m ravin’ on…. he gets people talking that’s for sure…this white boy supported by Dr Dre and D12. I mean, even Elton John likes him! In articles I’ve read, they say his first album was about peace and love and he sold jack shit compared to the millions he’s selling now. Doesn’t that say something more about us, the mass audience? I mean it’s no more offensive to me than hearing Nick Cave sing a beautiful love song about him killing the woman he loves and dumping her in the river: “Where the wild roses grow“. I enjoyed the show but maybe I wouldn’t recommend it for young children. “if you don’t like my shit, you can suck my dick“. I hope there is a female version of Eminem real soon: If you don’t like my shit, you can suck my clit. C’mon grrrls, do we have to be pretty and nice all the time? I think there is some hardcore female rappers out there somewhere, maybe it’s ‘lil Kim’ but why haven’t I heard her stuff yet? Why isn’t she on top of the charts? HuH?
Last night, I played with Cow Penalty (again), with The Sailors and The Drones supporting at the Punters club. I missed the Drones cos I had to go get some food but I heard they were really good and they must be ‘cos I met their female bassist, Fiona, and she’s tops! Go grrrl go! Once again a great crowd turnout for a Thursday night and the Sailors and Cow Penalty played real good…except my bass guitar strap fell off a couple of times…embarrassing…. We got a few dancers going up the front, including some bikie looking dudes…who I met later and were very nice!!
Oh, I just got to hear an album by LeTigre. I was IMPRESSED!!! All you music chicks, if you haven’t already, you MUST have this album in your collection! You will LOVE it!
Ok, up coming gigs…
Moler at The 9th Ward Sept 9th (Espy show cancelled, doh!)
Check out our new single ‘Red & White Stripes’ Mp3 on our Coolgrrrls Feature Mp3 page.
Cosmic Psycho’s at The Corner Hotel, this Friday night.
You can see ‘Cow Penalty’ at The Mercury Lounge, New York sometime in the next week, unfortunately I won’t be playing but if you are interested and live in the Big Apple, check out Spencer P Jones’ other New York ‘Cow Penalty’.
That’s enough babbling for now, till next time.
stay cool
da miss cat from hell
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PS. Remember: “you are a unique individual, just like everyone else“ — a quote from an internet forward!
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