Come see Mainland Chinese punk rockers ‘The Last Choice‘ with support from The Squawk, Defiant Scum, Oi ! Squad and Rat Alley.
9pm @ Sammi’s Kitchen
G/F 137-138 San Toi Building, Connaught Road, Sheung Wan.
$90 gets you in and $30 gets you a drink.
Do it
HAILZ! Grim Death Metallers Evocation will be holding a release party show for their new album ‘Take Your Soul’ at the Warehouse with some other HK metalheads in support. More info on the flyer!
Check the flyer above or the Evocation Myspace for more detail.
I had heard rumours floating around a few months ago that toe were coming over to Hong Kong to play a show and it seems they have been confirmed by White Noise. So far it seems like it will be August 2nd with support from the Lovesong. Other details TBC.
To celebrate, here is a freakin’ awesome toe vid.
- Joe
Photos from two cameras this time, fresh from Saturday night’s happening at Sammi’s Kitchen in Sheung Wan featuring Oi! Squad, David Bowie Knives, Gong Wu and DP.
Full B/W set over on my Flickr
More photos from Rudee over on his blog! Thanks again dude!
- Joe
Dung Beetle Interviews have posted an interview with Andrew Nufeld of Comeback after their recent Hong Kong show. Top stuff!
Comeback Kid share a special place in a long running argument between my 53 year old mother and myself. I complain about the lack of excitement of her hometown— and she replies with “well, you know, it’s always been strong musically,” and then I lose the battle.
You see, Comeback Kid and my mother share the same hometown: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. And despite the fact that I have again and again questioned the sensibility in naming a city without even an amusement park, a provincial capital, I’ve had an urge recently to visit, owing to its hardcore scene, which has undeniably produced some of the greatest bands in the genre.
Comeback Kid is one of my favourite bands, so upon hearing they were going to play a show in Hong Kong it was only understandable that everyone who was sitting in my vicinity at school became instantly aware at 7:52 in the morning of their impending arrival: I was kind of excited. Come April 27th, getting to interview the band’s vocalist Andrew Neufeld I was pumped.
You’re Andrew and you do vocals.
Correct.
Your lyrics seem to be very personal, so what things in life have influenced your writing?
I guess just frustration with— with our latest record— frustration with situations in my life where I feel like I get put into positions where I am kind of backed up against the wall, or like expected to do things I don’t want to do. Our last couple records, me and our old singer kind of shared the duty[of writing]— I used to play guitar in the band— I tried to touch on a few more worldly— I wouldn’t say political— more so, normal dude kind of thinking about the state of our world, and the way that humans act, and how we all kind of make compromises. You know, there’s things that I do I know that I don’t think are right necessarily, or companies that I probably support indirectly that I don’t really agree with, even lifestyle choices that I don’t really agree with, that I find myself falling into. I guess, everyone has their breaking point and everyone has their boundaries, those are some of the things I talked about.
You guys are signed to Victory. Does it have anything to do with that, at all?
They are a very very big label. So I think that if it weren’t for Victory, it would be debatable whether we’d be able to come to places like this and play; you know maybe we’d be able to do it on another label, who’s to say— like you’d never know unless it did happen. They are definitely a business, and definitely – every label’s a business and that’s fine— I wish sometimes that certain people at Victory would – ah, I don’t know. There’s ups and downs like every label, I could probably complain for a while about them. Sometimes we don’t feel like they support us as much as we’d like them to, probably because we make choices that they don’t want us to make, so , whatever. Agree to disagree, right?
Found this video of Comeback Kid playing their hit single ‘Wake the Dead’ to a rather excited looking crowd at Pier Pressure
Happy Days.
Thanks Christian!
- Joe
New interview up at Overthrow Cock Rock… this time with the might fine Coalesce.
You can’t keep a good band down, heck, Coalesce is living proof that even a good band with well documented inter-personal instability and tension can’t keep itself down. Which is good news for anyone familiar with their groundbreaking work on records like Functioning on Impatience and Revolution in Just Listening. Coalesce are back… with a new record in the works and to kick your dick into the dirt (sarcasm) and prove once and for all that they are NOT a tech metal band.
I was ecstatic to hear the band was active with Jes in the band again, more so when I heard the newer songs. But the big question is how far are you going to take this? Will we really see a new full length? If so when and what can we expect from it? Any tentative titles or release dates?
Nathan Ellis: The new record is happening, and we’re going at it pretty full speed right now. After the release we’ll be doing some touring, but not full time as we all have full time jobs, and families. (There are freaking ten kids between the four of us!
An awesome lineup for Take Back The Noise 2 @ Backstage this coming weekend features The Lovesong, Unixx, Elf Fatima & Downer
Details on the flyer or at the lona records site.
‘Overthrow Cock Rock and Idolize Your Girlfriend’ is the new blog of the prolific Arthur Urquiola. He conducts interviews with bands both hailed and obscure across the globe and collects them in his whimsically titled vault. This week saw Arthur trading blows with Dwid Hellion, vocalist with hardcore/metal legends Integrity.
A clip from the interview.
Revered… and sometimes reviled as purveyors of the ‘metalcore’ sound, Integrity’s classic records combine the drive and intensity of hardcore and the heavier elements of the best metal.
I’ve heard you in earlier interviews talk about the different reactions to Integrity when you first started (something to the effect of it was too metal for hardcore kids and too punk and hardcore to be metal), what made you want to start a band that took hardcore and introduced the other elements into it? And then keep at it despite the less than enthusiastic responses at times?
I simply created a band that I wanted to hear.
It was a very selfish act.
I do not acknowledge the public response, whether it may be positive or negative. The music is our expression and our interests. The audience is more or less, eavesdropping on our own private entertainment.
That’s right, get your dancing pants on for a night of Disco Indie at Grappas Cellar with support from HK favourites DP + DJs into the wee hours.
More info at: http://www.fareastfarout.com
Joe Hastings