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psychic vampire. wrote: Also, where the fuck are people pretending they were always into NWOBHM? Here all the xvx boys got hard into Death In June and Cold Cave and Boyd Rice and a white male persecution complex. NWOBHM sounds way better.

daseb wrote:australia. It's a trend among people who'd go to punk shows but weren't actually crusties. None of them can really play that well but bless 'em they're trying.

BoatRich wrote:

psychic vampire. wrote:

gnomethrone wrote:My experiences have always been sort of counter-intuitive. Slam into a table while playing guitar sending a bunch of glass smashing into the bar floor? Promoter loves it and gives us more money from the door than the other bands. Have my dick flop out of the tiny briefs I thought it was funny to wear on stage? Get asked back for bigger shows.

The dick slip is the only move that trumps the nip slip.

I am all for interesting or provocative confrontation or transgression (in fact i love it), but too many bands are content to rehash things that stopped being new or exciting before i was fucking born. Back when i was living in a punk house it was like, what page out of the early 80s hardcore handbook am i gonna see tonight? Oh, some band thought it was cool and funny to use racial slurs, or break bottles, or call me a faggot, or throw furniture, or start a fight, etc. etc. etc. Now I have to clean up/kick someone out/cry on the roof alone. Transgression, by its nature, should be the opposite of anticipated, it should be carefully calculated based on the space in which it is occurring. If it is not only predictable, but expected by the audience, it just becomes... well, to me, boring.

That said i used to flail around in hardcore bands, but usually because i am a bad bassist.

I agree, and we're all queer and the bar owner saw it fit to use a ton of slurs in the process of confronting us. That said, being provocative and loud Is a huge part of stage presence for us so it's on the venue owner to research what they book

psychic vampire. wrote:Also, where the fuck are people pretending they were always into NWOBHM? Here all the xvx boys got hard into Death In June and Cold Cave and Boyd Rice and a white male persecution complex. NWOBHM sounds way better.

zeravla wrote:

psychic vampire. wrote:Also, where the fuck are people pretending they were always into NWOBHM? Here all the xvx boys got hard into Death In June and Cold Cave and Boyd Rice and a white male persecution complex. NWOBHM sounds way better.

We've got a bunch of those dudes here too. They got all pissed recently because one of the local venues canceled a Boyd Rice show once they looked into him a bit. Now they're screaming about censorship and how everyone is out to bring them down blah blah blah.

One time my band got booked to play a club and it wasn't until we got there that we found out it was a christian club several nights a week. The soundguy kept coming in on the mic warning us about cussing. After the third time he cut the singer's mic so we just made a bunch of noise and left. We had another show later so it worked out.