VIVA SKA PUNK REVOLUTION!

ALT SKA SUMMER FEST

Okay so basically I’m like thinking about doing a review cos my mate Sarah wanted me to do one so here it is.

I turned up at alt ska in a fragile state because I had an argument with my boss at work and I was tired and stuff.

The first band I saw was Detached. 

Detached are a bunch of Irish scallywags.  They make really fun ska punk music.  Basically imagine what would happen if goldie looking chain had an orgy with bob Marley and the sex pistols were masterbating in the corner.  That’s pretty much exactly what it sounded like.

I loved it … it picked me up.  Props to the brass section.  Saxphone dude was totally vibsing it (Happy Birthday btw) He was just bouncing around looking like a proper ska dude.

You could just tell these guys were all mates and had some fun sipping ciders in the forest and hanging off trees.  Props to mr dreadlock trumpet guy who was basically doing some kind crazy wrist shake just before all the sick drops. 

Yeah good stuff guys.  Catchy tunes, messy, sloppy, tight, fun good times lads anthems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfoI_u7cpTc

wow yeah great video.  My favourite of video where you just know these guys are living it.

Next on was Riskee and the Ridicule…

When they came on I’d fallen asleep on one of the chairs at the back whilst reading my book ‘why kindness is good for you’ which kind of fit with the night cos everyone I met was so bloody kind.  Anyways they brought me out of my coma sleep.  At first I was like this is a bit rowdy sounding and then sort of starting getting into the stuff they were playing cos the music was kind of clever interesting unique kinda thing.

Then I checked them out for real and the front man was just having it!  Jumping around with all his tattoos and stuff.  He just looked the part.  The bassist had a cool fro and the little Spanish guitarist reminded me of that dude from napoleon dynamite PEDRO.  In fact I think he actually was pedro.  It was funny cos one time he just hopped into the two man mosh pit and his lead fell out.  Seriously be careful pedro. 

Anyways great band I reckon.  Fanbase consisted of two fat dudes kicking a girl.  I was chatting to the singer later and he was all friendly and stuff and we were doing hi fives and grinning.

Check out there video its made in a mental asylum which the singers mum used to work at.  And if you watch closely in the vid all the singers mates are just straight up swearing at him.  That’s just naughty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHqkdlXUVlQ

  here it is.  Cool video. Singer is scary as fuck. Just such a character.  Good front man. Catchy song ‘jack of all traids, master of none’ yeah wicked. 

Then there was animal.

When these guys came up on stage I could of sworn Id seen them before.  Then I realised I’d watched there video on youtube before I came to the night.  These guys were just the most silly thing ever.  Which was why it was so fucking awesome.  Crazy ass dubstep wobbles with EPIC drops.  The electronic man was funny.  He had an asparagus coming from his head.  Or was that hair? I dunno.  Anyway his beats were cool and he was heading banging all the way through.  It kind of looked abit like he was riding a camel through the desert.  Funky samples too.  The lead singer was great.  I particularly loved the song where he was just screaming FIRE.  He said it a thousand times and it never got boring it just got more nuts.  Kind of like an actual fire.  Like a fucking a bush fire in oz.  The crowd was loving it.  Especially this girl I was checkin out she was just like grinning and sipping her pint like ‘yeah, this is the fakin shit’.  The live drums was great cos otherwise I tend to find all this electro stuff abit boring so props to the drummer!

Not sure if this was actuall video but

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xOh1TRGNjw

Next band I missed cos I had to get some space after those crazy dubstep monkeys.  I went to cyberdog to meet my friend marina.  It was great.

So heres a review of there video I found on youporn

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEVEkzEQ0jc

Id say it sounds a bit like fred durst milking a cow.

or

Nu tractor?

But yeah seriously nice one guys good song.  Speedy ass rapping skills too x

Ghouls!

Yes loving Ghouls.  I saw them a month ago at this battle of the bands thing.  They lost but that’s cos the promoters were lame bags.  These guys have got a punch.  The saxophone guy had a great shirt what more can I say.  The whole band were tight as a kite.  Great songs.  Great harmonies.  Great lyrics.  Everyone was totally vibsing and so were they.  Especially the saxophone guy he was mental.  Maybe he was from that mental asylum that Riskee recorded his video.  I was loving the saxophone connection he was having the saxophone guy in detached, they were just like winking at each other the whole set being like

‘yeah we’re saxophone friends, wanna come back to my house and play saxophone and just leave this world behind’ 

er.. so …

yeah the Ghouls

Very young too.  Very very young.  A pedophiles dream ska band.

Nice lyrics too.  That one about London town is burning down and we’re all going with it… yeah I feel that dudes. 

Anyways you should all go on there website and give them money to supposedly record there album but I know they’ll probably just spend it on crack.  Winehouse, Pete, Ghouls they all love a bit of crack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi1H3A6_ElA

LOVE THIS TUNE SERIOUSLY .. spot on harmonies … sounds a bit like rx bandits maybe? For those ska sperts out there.

Left Step Band.

Were

HENCH

They were just so fucking HENCH.

Particularly the bassist and the singer.

OMG

Seriously

It was like watching ‘Worlds strongest man’

There music was kind of mysterious and psycadelic.  I kind of liked it.  It made me feel all trippy and stuff.  You know these guys loved taking acid and doing weights A LOT.

Cool little DJ sample shit going on in the background.

Yeah!

Hercules meets linking park meets the doors.

Catchy tune with views of Leicester square.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYPhC4nFdPQ

Whitemore

He was was there!  The guy from whitemore.  So happs.

Love em!

So much

YEAH MAN

Love those ska days. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu4CS8W-lpU

ALISON … best love song ever

Awesome bass solo.

Don’t think so? FUCK YOU!! (seriously)

Imperial Leisure

Listen yeah.

Is SKA dead?

NO

King prawn have reformed!

Imperial Leisure killed it.

Lead singer give shots to band members.

Big mosh pit party.

THE BEAST! – yeah totally radical tune.

Coolest thing about ska.  ALL THE OTHER BANDS WERE IN THE MOSHPIT.

Take that post-punk.  Miserable sods. Lifes shit .. I get it.  Now ‘lets get down with the trumpets’

(RIZZLE KICKS) 2012

LOVE

LOVE

LOVE

Touch girls breast by mistake! WOOHOO!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQXG6X5xRf0

That’s the end of my GONZO review

Hope you enjoyed.  I certainly did.