Who can resist germans singing? Not me, Xmal deutchland, Canal Terror, DAF, Toxo Plasma, Tommi Stumpf, Toten Hosen even Rammstein, I love every fully butchered ich and ach lau. What would Teenage Panzerkorps be like if Bunker Wolf came from Brighton and was called Brian Fox?
Blixa was on form the night I taped this at Heaven , a gay club under the arches of charing cross bridge, with some of that trademark diabolical vocal chord abuse. I dont recall much about the gig, and going from my slurred commentary thats probly due to over medication on the night. Were the tickets were really expensive? so it may have been a secret/special show. Either ways the set is over long and peters out a bit, of the songs I know, none were given great deliveries.
The one Einsturzende gig I will never forget though is the infamous double header with Showaddywaddy (youtube at your peril kids). Just down the road from Cricklewood in county Kilburns largest guinness barn. Some Bizarre indeed.
02-Sep-85 UK London,Heaven Side 1. Halber Mensch/ Der Tod ist ein Dandy/ Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T./ ?/ Letztes Biest (am Himmel)/ Abfackeln!/ Yü-Gung (fütter mein Ego)/ Negativ Nein/ Vanadium-I-Ching/
Side 2. Armenia/ Die genaue Zeit/ Sehnsucht/ Spaltung (a.k.a. Armenisch Bitter)/ ?/ Zerstörte Zelle/ Sand.
Our local Music website messandnoise.com had one of their free lunchtime shows today in the 1000 Pound bend hipster haunt off Eizabeth street. And I have to say I saw probably the best chinese rock band ive ever seen - '"PK14". Well ok thy are the only chinese rock band Ive ever seen.... (I think theres only about 8 to choose from anyway). They didnt sound like the fall, joy division , gang of four or fugazi (get a new publicist guys) but they were entertaining - gotta love a singer who round-house kicks and swings the mike around -at lunch time to an audience of office workers....
La Muerte are definitely the best Belgian Rock band Ive ever seen. ( Ive never seen Plastic Bertrand and Im sure he would have been in the running if i had...and there dEUS I guess , but really who else? ). The guys voice is awesome and he did one of the best Nick-Cave-release-the-bats "dentist drill" shrieks north of brisbane.
Lucifer Sam - La Muerte Ok the Birthday party influence is there but songs like " Evil Land", "Haschassin" and "Tiny Bones" have a noise/punk thrust that other Cave derivatives never had. The helter-skelter down-escalator guitar riff of "Blame on you" is a classic and the band only shows a taste of the mediochrity that is to come on "Blues Heaven or Hell" : the debut album was a turgid lowland-swamp blues by numbers job with none of the sense of urgency or credibility the previous 12" had. LA Muerte,Bay 63 London, 1985 1. Evil Land 2. Haschassin 3. Blues, Heaven or Hell 4. Tiny Bones 5. Blame On You 6. Lucifer Sam 7. Wild Thing
This was recorded in the upstairs room of the Enterprise at Chalk Farm in late 1985. This was a great venue that closed down after short while when John Robb managed to put his foot through the floor into the pub below during a Membranes show. The Spaceman 3 played their first london show here, and I recall they had to come back and do a second set cos the record label/journalist they had come to impress missed them.
This is Shop Assistants with two drummers and Alex singing. the recording is a second generation copy on a crap tape and its starting to deteriorate. Its not super hi-fi but the vocals are pretty clear which is what you want with these guys. Theres something on the end of the tape which I suspect is The Legend...and Im sure somewhere Ive got a an acapella version of "Just like Honey" with the Legend backed by the Shop Assistants from this show....ahh for a time machine and a digital video camera.
