Week #2 of the year, and already another So-Cal/OC Punk legend! Skate/Surf/Punk rockers, Agent Orange are in town! Better still, it's at the new and improved(yes, I did say improved!) Fitzgerald's. It sounds so good I can almost taste it! That's not an effect on the flyer... Ours just got beaten at The Adolescents when we got it.
2 Comments
Nothing like a Punk show in the suburbs. Better yet at one of the smallest venues I've seen, and with some of the best lighting I've ever seen, The 19th Hole!
Starting off the year with one of California's best musical outputs ever, and joining them is one Texas' best(if not US) bands to come out in the last 20 years.
These, and two great openers thrown into a sold out venue filled with Punks. It's time to go insane. In case you don't who The Batusis is here's a quick introduction. A dream team of punk pioneers: Sylvain Sylvain of New York Dolls, Cheetah Chrome of Dead Boys, Sean Koos of Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, and Les Warner of The Cult; all sitting in a room with a debut at SXSW.
I don't think it gets much better than that for a Texas Punk! Molotov's 2nd to last show ever at a rad skate jam. Sounds like it's bound to be some fun! Drop in!
Also, what I suppose you could call a eulogy to the Molotov Compromise below. I came to this unsure of how it was going to turn out due to a few factors: one being that I’m with the group that prefers Danzig-era Misfits (I don’t mean to sound like a snob, it’s purely personal preference), another being that I was expecting a punk show and a good bit of the bands were more on the metal side of things, nothing wrong with diversity but the Misfits were the only band that were more on the side of the fence that was explicitly punk in its roots (though one of the guitarists for Necrofaith was sporting a Social D shirt, so maybe not, Houston is known for diversity!). The last bit was that I had known some kids that come to latter day Misfits show tend to come because of their later releases without always knowing the earlier material, of course that doesn’t speak for the veterans in the crowd but I just worry about kids knowing their punk rock roots. Alas, I was not entirely disappointed. Review By Kris Prudhomme
ST and touring friends lay it down for somewhere around 1,000 rabid Cycos. Does it really need more of an introduction?
|