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Horrorpops + The Satellites, The Brews Enigma Bar, Thurs 28 July  It's
Thursday night and it's cold and already this week I've been to see
two of the greatest performances this year (Interpol and Doves): you
can understand why I was having trouble at the prospect of reviewing
Denmark's Horrorpops. I walked in halfway through The Brews' set and
they were playing a song I knew despite the fact that I've never seen
them before. It was Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise. Hmmm. They
only had a couple more songs after this and, despite the covers, they
had the goods. The crowd was sparse but extremely receptive to The
Brews' great energy and ability.Next up were The Satellites, who I haven't experienced before even though they have been around for a long time. Their old-school rockabilly swing style was great fun to watch and you can't help but be mesmerized by that upright bass slapping. As the rockabilly went on, The Satellites showed exactly why they are one of Adelaide's greats in the punk rock/rockabilly genre and the only choice of support for the Horrorpops. As soon as the lights dimmed and someone walked out with THAT upright bass - illustrated with almost every single element of every tattoo done in the past five years in the Adelaide metropolitan area - the punters, who were mainly younger kids, went nuts. When lead vocalist and bass-slapper Patricia walked onstage, all hell broke loose. Launching straight into Psycho Bitches Outta Hell, the gorgeous go-go girls ran out in their uniforms and all the boys' tongues were hanging out: literally. Patricia growled into the mic and the two guitarists... well, they were great, but I couldn't stop looking at their hair. The band concentrated on their debut album 'Hell Yeah!' throughout the evening and provoked crowd chants of the title whenever they could. Drama Queen and Dotted With Hearts had the Horrorpops go-go girls bouncing around the stage and flirting with the punters, not afraid to lift up their skirts at every opportunity. When Patricia told the crowd "I wanna see you skank!" it took a bit of convincing but soon enough it felt like we were all going to fall through the Enigma Bar floor. There was a brief stop-start in the second song as one of the younger fans down the front was knocked down, which showed the band were looking out for their crowd. The prime song of the set had to be Mistake, although Kool Flattop was a close runner up. Baby Lou Tattoo was the crowd participation song of the evening and Patricia finished off the set with "if you say "Hell Yeah!" we'll come back for another song." Hell Yeah! They came back with an encore of Billy Idol's Rebel Yell, which had all those punk kids screaming with delight. The Horrorpops were having fun and they couldn't wipe the grins off their faces - a factor that made the show all the more exciting. After a week of great gigs, I wasn't let down.  |
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