'B    -  T O W N'

Now this new influx of music from birmingham is intense. The growth of new bands, new sounds and new moves is a concept circled with excitement. My band are also releasing some demo's in the coming month. fucking finally. Now as far as a scene goes, iv floated through a few. Hardcore first of all, a scene I loved simply for the energy, weather you like the rolling stomping riffs and shouts of a generation ... pissed. Theres no denying the pure energy, its music that delivers a straight up feeling. So much so it heards human beings in to manic machines of flailing arm movement and crab like floating. I liked that, music that the crowd feeds off. 

One thing that worries me about this scene is that I hope it has some substance. And is not just a flimsy silhouette dressed and heavily stylised. I say this because not long  ago me and lovewar went to see a band called WIDE EYED. Two things, their drummer aaron singh is 18 men in one. He got fired from his job because he smelt of vodka, he once stole his own dads car and he licked a bag of cocaine 10 minutes before he went on stage. He is also a valued friend and comrade in the war against reality. Secondly the band are brilliant, the music is hypnotic and engulfs who ever listens to it in what i can only describe as an obtuse purple funk.

The music suited the high. The room was dark, lit perfectly. 

The room was quite rammed, not overly so. But the tallest bastards got the front so visually i saw the occasional flight of dark hair from one or so of the band members. However the atmosphere did not appear to be complete. This crowd was a drone. A giant fucking drone. All these people looked like they had been forced to come here. arms folded. No nods, no grooves. Just standing drones. The sounds are beautiful, the crowd are empty. As me and friends move slightly, we just get shoved and looked at. I hope the 'b' in b-town doesnt stand for boring or.. bastards or .. bollocks. 

I went to see youth man a good while ago too. They smashed out a nirvana cover. Me and the sterling gentlemen from bad apes decided to forget it was a cover and this really was 1993. And afterwards a girl said 'you need to calm down, how much do you love nirvana'. Dont come to shows, burn all your records and permanently live in your tent you got pitched in COW you fucking swine.

who knows, maybe im wrong.

im gonna go to the jaws single release. see how people fuck there.

I didnt go to the jaws release. Burn me at the stake. However i just got tickets for peace & jaws on the 22nd. I plan to get drunk.