Oi! Skate, Slip n’ Slide!
Oi! Such a blur these past couple of weeks between the Vermont House, Mr. T’s Bowl, Pehrspace, and a 30 pack of bud light somewhere in between.
In the middle of the month the Vermont House shows returned after a brief hiatus do to the tenant’s touring commitments. As always it featured touring bands (Nuclear Animals/Total Bros) and residents from The Smell, No Paws (No Lions), a duo continuing in that aesthetic brought forth by No Age and the ever growing in popularity Waaves, so more lo-fi bedroom organ based indie rock that leaves the kids in a sweaty mess.
A week later stopped by Mr. T’s Bowl in the HLP to check out local synth-pop duo, Odd Modern, a duo with synth melodies in the mold of Metric.
Natural Disasters followed Odd Modern, a blues-rock duo I manged to catch a couple of years ago, they received a very warm welcome from Eli Monolator.
Finished the month at Pehrspace for an absolutely sweaty, slippery, painful, and nude punk show from LA Underground featuring UV Lights, The Monolators, Okie Dokie, Woah Hunx, and Audacity.
Long Beach based UV Lights opened up the great night, this band just proves how the Long Beach scene continues to produce bands appearing all over the LA map, examples include Crystal Antlers, Tijuana Panthers, Japanese Motors.
Okie Dokie started the power violence that resulted in a broken beer bottle across the floor of the mosh pit and everyone to clear the middle of the space.
We managed to just stay through Woah Hunx (previously NON+), which the crowd warmly embraced initially, but we made sure they enthusiastically loved them by the end of the night by of course starting the mosh pit. Of course it did help when the drummer stripped down and played nude, who doesn’t love a nude drummer?! Also, I never realized someone could skateboard through a mosh pit, a circle pit could form around a dancing couple, and that beer cans tend to make a sweaty mosh pit into a slip n’ slide that made several of us fall completely on our asses countless times, skateboarders included.
