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Monday, June 23, 2003

ELECTRIC EEL SHOCK THE MAD CAPSULE MARKETS

Hardcore weekend GAME ON! sk8r festival punk mad capsule markets electric eel shock noodles mosh pit annoying children cypress hill haircuts £3 beer Dome underground greenwich north rizla tony hawkes other bloke cowboy hat naked sock drummer willy afro bass.

Went to Game On! at the Dome in Greenwich on Saturday, a skate kiddie festival, with bands, skating, BMXing, beer, noodles, and annoying young skate kiddies. Suffice to say that my companions and I were about the oldest people there. Apart from the parentals accompanying their teenage (and younger) children under duress and looking faintly shocked at everything.

A good variety of hairdos were on show, ranging from wackily dyed barnets to full on oldskool punk mohawks. Also on abundance were the sk8/nuu-punk fashions of today's youth, including but not limited to ridiculous combat trousers with miles of pointless straps hanging from every square inch of fabric, baggy jeans suspended halfway down the arse with acres of unfashionable pants on display, vile stripey dayglo socks, shirts made from that strange black seethrough gauze material, big cowboy hats, woolly beanie hats, berets, baseball caps, trainers, 5 inch platform boots, loafers, doc martens, fathoms of chains, piercings of every variety and location, comedy leather-clad little & large bowler-hatted rockers, fat bikers, and so on.

Saw two bands out of the ten or so playing, the other 8 were rubbish. Firstly, Electric Eel Shock (whom I appear to be becoming obsessed with), a funky rock & roll 3 piece combo from Japan. Possibly the most entertaining live act I've seen for some time. Amp-climbing bassist, eye-rolling be-afroed lead singer/guitarist, and naked small drummer with an insane giggle which he deployed at random intervals while wearing nothing but an incredibly long sock over his willy. Singer whipped crowd up into a frenzy of chanting "E-MAIL, E-MAIL, E-MAIL..." and "WE HAVE T-SHIRT AND CD, BUY T-SHIRT AND CD PLEASE" quality, and was quite mental on the guitar too. They played a bunch of songs at breakneck speed, and I gave them my email address. Unfortunately there were a bunch of knobs in the mosh pit who spoiled it a bit as they were hurling each other around and trying to start fights, rather than appreciating the music at all. Oh well.

Then we bought a styrofoam dish of the most unhygenic noodles ever, thus giving our immune systems a boost. Noodle bar serving people wiping their hands clean on their t-shirts, scooping soy from a bucket and trailing noodles all over the minging serving counter of the van. Didn't taste all that nice either, but I was hungry. Bunch of skaters came and sat down near us, and we didn't think anything of it until some boy of 15 or so came up to them, started gibbering "OH MY GOD, YOU'RE MY HERO, OH JESUS" while pointing and hugging the beefy guy with the cowboy hat who was featured in Tony Hawkes 3. So I went up and asked tony hawkes bloke's mate for a couple of rizla as I'd run out. Quality.

Following this we had a couple of beers which were good value at £3 a can(!), sat down for a bit in the sun, and waited for the MAD CAPSULE MARKETS who were on the main stage. Wandered over to the main stage past the comedy duo in leather biker jackets and rock paraphenalia, the short one being in a bowler hat. Then the Capsules came on, and they were ace, although not as entertaining as the Electric Eel Shockers. More of an Osc-Dis set this time, which was fine by me. I stood in front of a hot japanese chick.

All in all, a splendid day, although I have to say that seeing bands in a small venue is *far* better than a big festival type thing, you just don't get the atmosphere during the day in a big space. Also, it might've been better if I had more beer, cos I didn't dance much. Manly.

posted by Woodsta09:42

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