Tagged "gigs"

(With Slept On and Trauma Bonds)

They were pure jagged energy!

I recommend: No Trust

(With Thank)

They were a ruckus!

I recommend: unpopular parts of a pig

(With H Hawkline)

She was perfectly melodic!

I recommend: Mother's Mother's Magazines

Core is always a really wonderful and really jam-packed weekend, though my partner and I only ever plan, based on our endurance levels, to do one day. #old. We went on Saturday this year and saw Gout, Lights Out, No Known Weakness, Moni Jitchell, Roman Candle, Ditz, Pest Control and False Reality.

Every day of the festival is a great grab bag of bands if you love an assortment of punk, hardcore, noise and metal music; the festival itself is also just really fun (Hug & Pint doing pizza by the slice all day is great, also hope there's another custom radler brewed up for next year). However I want to give a special shout out to Gout, whose show felt like going to a gig that would be background to a scene in a Gregg Araki movie, and Ditz, whose set was entrancing, life-affirming noise chaos that broke into an impromptu cover of Dracula Mountain for the finale underneath swinging 70s light fixtures; the absolute high point of the festival for me.

(with Isabella Strange and CEEFAX)

They were funky, with a pit not for the faint of heart!

I recommend: The News

They were bringing the old man swag (and trombone swag) hardcore!

I recommend: This is My Life

(With Container)

They were raw power, for what felt like hours... (had the melancholy feeling of enjoying it so much, why don't I go to a gig every night? Thursday morning, I figured out why lol)

I recommend: Withered Hand

(With Wendell Borton and Julia's Bureau)

They were definitely superior to the Susan Sontag novel on the same subject... (Couldn't resist joking, but really, I was pretty mind-blown)

I recommend: The Hand That Did The Deed

(With Stones and Nic Krog)

They were trance-inducing!

I recommend: Time Garbage

(With Half Time and Dragged Up)

They were totally shredding!

I recommend: Little Egg

They were relentless!

I recommend: Ass2Mars

They were TRANSCENDENT!!

I recommend: THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN'T DO

They were rad!

I recommend: Escape