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Balazo Gallery October 17, 2003 Review by Jake Thomas By the time I walked in, Revenge was already playing and it was a sweaty good time. I spent the first few songs they played (they were short songs) looking around at the photographs on display, as this was a rock show/photo show combo gathering. Once I made it into the band room, I settled in for a viewing of Revenge. Apparently, this duo is also in local faves Kung Fu USA who I’m yet to see but have heard good things about. He was rocking the guitar, and she the stand up drums; very basic, primal rock music. At irst I was on the fence, but they grew on me as the songs progressed, and finally sold me with their cover of Ministry’s ‘Stigmata’ seeing a 2 piece band like this covering a song like that was something I never thought I’d see (frankly, I’d never thought about it all, but you get my drift) and it was damned enjoyable. I saw the Mae Shi, who come from the land down below known Los Angeles, a few months back at the Noiserock Picnic at Toxic Beach and had been impressed, and wanted to make a point of seeing them indoors sometime soon (as the sound is/should be different than an out door show). Well, they were just as much if not more impressive in that tiny room at Balazo. A little reminiscent of the Ex-Models, but not enough to make you think they are aping them or anything like that. They probably use more energy in a single show of jumping around than I do in a week. The whole band does this interesting call-and-response thing with each other in between every song – kinda hard to explain, but involves lots of yelping. The only bummer of the whole procession was the drunk guy moshing around and spilling beer on people…’dude totally harshed my mellow, man’ so to speak. Otherwise an enjoyable show, and proof that LA doesn’t totally suck. --- Read our previous Mae-Shi review: August 23, 2003 @ Toxic Beach ©2003 playinginfog.com |