The Jesus Lizard

Well as suspected The Jesus Lizard totally slayed in Dublin last night. The band absolutely hammered it while Mr Yow yelped, screamed and howled like a maniac crowd surfing all the while. A special mention has to go to Mac McNeilly who totally killed it on the drums, one of my favourite drummers ever. Ended the night in a sweaty dirty heap so I guess I had a good time. I feel unbelievably lucky to have been able so see such an awesome band again. There's a few clips of the show on youtube. I like this one, cause I'm in it:



Be sure to cop the Jesus Lizard re-masters when they drop, forget the Beatles, this is the fab four I care about.

We're Off To See The Lizard

Excited about seeing The Jesus Lizard tomorrow in Dublin. They're playing the Button Factory courtesy of the good folks of U:Mack Productions. They totally slayed at All Tomorrows Parties in May so should be killler mc hann.

Not Squares 7"

Hup!

The awesome Not Squares just released their debut 7" on Richter Collective Records. Go forth and cop that shit:

Here!

Song Of The Fortnight - The Barbarians

Well I got somewhat sidetracked and song of the week kind of turned into song of the fortnight and at was a tricky decision - 'She's Like Heroin To Me' by The Gun Club was never far from the turntable while the genius of 'It's Alive' era Ramones was also a strong contender but the out and out winner has to be the greatest band to ever have a one armed drummer - The Barbarians with the awesome 'Moulty' The guitar tone in this song is the sickest thing ever and it's kind of biting 'You've Lost That Loving Feeling' which itself was biting 'La Bamba' and it's a hear warming tale of one young mans salvation through music following a horrific injury - aww! Here it is:

Saint Dude's - Boys Gone Wild

The awesome Saint Dude's, veterans of many a Complication live night have finally released their debut album 'Boys Gone Wild' and quite fantastic it is too being a rawkus mash up of 'Circa Now' era Rocket From The Crypt, The Supersuckers and 'Raw Power' era Stooges only not as good as any of those obviously) All the hits are there including 'Rolling Back To Richmond' 'Pow! Lights Out Fool' and the party anthemn 'Hot Sauce' complete with party vibe gang vocal. There's some nice production touched too like sax, female backing vocals (by The Saint Dudettes? The Saint Dolls?) and the little banjo interludes which add to the 'prepare to get eaten by psychopathic hillbillies' Nice work by the the Dudes. Sadly they've no more shows in 2009 but the whole album is streaming over at last fm:

http://www.last.fm/music/Saint+Dude%27s

Song Of The Week - The Buzzcocks

I am currently driving about 4 hours a day to and from work which allows lots of time for digging in the crates (aka the messy pile of CDs in my living room) for neglected or forgotten tunes so I thought I'd try and stick up at least one tune that made me go "ah yeah that!" or "wow! what is that?" during the course of week. This week is "Why Can't I Touch It?" by The Buzzcocks. It's a late period Buzzcocks tune and not typical of them in that it's a slow with a dubby bassline rather than three chords punk pop but it's rocking none the less. It's also one of those rare songs that has a "special personal meaning" but we won't go into that here. It's a killer jam:

The Killing Spree

On of my favourite ever bands The Killing Spree is reforming for a one off show for a great cause next month. Check out the deets here:

TKS only released on 7" on Rimbaud Records but the lads went on to form Gaju / Not Squares and a variety of other musical and non-musical endevours.

Obits

I recently got a hold of "I Blame You" the debut album from Obits who feature Rick Froberg formerly of Pitchfork, Drive Like Jehu and Hot Snakes and it's rather fine. There's a free download of "Pine On" from the album over at the Sub Pop here:

http://subpop.com/artists/obits

and you can check out the band on myspace:

www.myspace.com/obitsband

You're crazy for this one Rick!