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2008-04-10
DE – Cologne - Luxor |
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| Certifiably Insane It
happened anytime last year when I stumbled over the myspace site
of American craziest freak commando known as MINDLESS SELF
INDULGENCE. And I fell in love. In early 2008 the band’s
first DVD Our Pain Your Gain landed right on me
desk and I was downright blown away! Geeez… I wouldn’t
have expected such a show! Of course I was jumping at shortly
afterwards announced shows like a lunatic. With luck ;) More or
less… :: pics :: Dandies In The Underworld
Show kicked
off unusually late, at 9pm, but well, there were only to bands
on the bill. It was up to :: GERILJA
:: to heat up the crowd. Hailing from Norway this band
caused some confusion, since there is another Norwegian band with
the same name but playing politically correct Hardcore stuff.
The GERILJA cats we are talking about right here are quite
mysterious. There is not that much to learn about them. And visually
this trio doesn’t has ANYTHING to do with the Hardcore guys
*lol* While you can describe the cutie bass player Simon and drummer
Ottar “normal looking” gents, singer and guitarist
Alex seemed to be beamed right out of the hippy end-sixties, wearing
zebra leggings, a head- and arm bands and a get-me-laid-muscle-shirt.
Bathed in screaming pink lights they played some kind of psychedelic-touched,
Punk splattered Rock with some spacy samples added every now and
then. It reminded me a bit of T-Rex, just with less Glam and guitar
power. And that’s exactly what this band is lacking of.
The right kick, power, pizazz… ya know. Show was quite tame
and so the feedback was. Except for the last announced track…
seeing the fans already screaming for MSI… Industrial Jungle Pussy Punk Deluxe
The New York
freaks meanwhile took it easy, didn’t rush about anything.
Time passed by, waves of pushing bodies led to optimizing crowd
compression with the first girl passing out. She was really a
die-hard fan, recovered for a while in the photo pit and jumped
back to her place filling her dot in the human lattice. Finally
:: MINDLESS
SELF INDULGENCE :: entered the stage with fronter
Jimmy Urine sharing Katjes and Haribo and an axeman wanting to
have his shoe in my face (2mm I tell ya *g*). Seems like he doesn’t
like photographers, Jimmy does neither… he got a colleague
on stage to take photos from the crowd, backbiting about the results.
Fuck, who cares, get the show going! And so it happened. With
the classic Shut Me Up MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE
accelerated from 0 to 100 in less than a second, going mad with
the crowd completely freakin’ out („you’re
so classy… you’re so a fucking classy audience…“).
100% energy, 100% pure madness, over the entire running time.
Here I exactly experienced what I have seen on DVD. 1:1. Jimmy
Urine was in best shape, also vocally, jumping, climbing at and
upon things, still giving away candy, surfed the crowd, kissed
and licked the fans in the first row, while fooling them with
poignant sarcasm at the same time. Stupidly peeps didn’t
realize what he was saying (or wasn’t able to speak English)
and just screamed in return brainpower-free. Bass-wonder-woman
Lyn-Z didn’t fall short any bit, likewise jumping, crowd
surfing and lovely twisting herself. Steve Righ? acted the all-destroying
evil man, while drummer Kitty had fun with Jimmy doing gyms on
her clearly arranged drum kit. Mood on both sides was pushed to
the extreme. Just unbelievable! Micro-stands and monitor speakers
were thrown around (no guitars shredded) and a micro sold for
20 Euros by Jimmy. He also created a YouTube-Hello-from-Cologne-message
with the fans sending it to himself and splashed with margarine,
grabbing at everybody’s nose with his buttered hands *laughs*,
while lost shoes were going around. Jimmy Urine managed to get
out the best of every situation, of course on the most provocative
way ;) I LOVE MSI! Whenever possible, MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE is a must! |
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| story & pics © Dajana |
