Rudeboys, are you ready?!

Had a music-filled weekend. On Friday I made a mix for a friend:

Sept 14 Mix
1. "You think you can dance?" intro (taken from the Simpsons)
2. Anthrax - Got The Time
3. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
4. Blitz - Someone's Gonna Die
5. Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device
6. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Travelin' Band
7. Tom Petty - Saving Grace
8. Green Day - Working Class Hero (John Lennon cover)
9. Gogol Bordello - Not A Crime
10. Gogol Bordello - Think Locally, Fuck Globally
11. "Four minutes of my life" interlude (taken from the Simpsons)
12. Gogol Bordello - Supertheory of Supereverything
13. Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Get Down Moses
14. Tim Armstrong - Into Action
15. Rancid - I Wanna Riot
16. Blitz - Never Surrender
17. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Rappaport's Testament: I Never Gave up (Chumbawumba cover)

It's pretty awesome if I do say so myself. :)

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Then on Friday night the Inspecter 7 show! Where much fun and dancing was had by all, except for a few brief minutes during Step2Far's set where a fight threatened to break out twice. Luckily cooler heads prevailed. We showed up late missing maybe four opening acts, but got to see Step2Far ("Pa'lante" is such a great song), the Krays ("Too Lazy" was a standout) and the Wretched Ones with "Oi! Rogers", "Leave the Old Man Alone" and the excellent "Going Down the Bar."

Somehow Inspecter 7 managed to fit all 10 of the bandmembers (and later on 12, maybe more) on the small Knitting Factory stage. T-Dog came on and said a reward for anyone who finds Giuseppe and gets him on stage! Ha! And on he came with another vocalist (3 total!). Much skanking ensued. It was a regular dance party! Except rudie/skin style! :) Also: SKOOCHIE, but with no make-up!! Songs included (out of order) "The Infamous", "Sharky 17", "Regret" (the first and part two), "Asbury Park", "Sleeping with the Enemy", "Popeye" (SO good live. My sis almost screamed for this right before they played it, ha!), "Channel 7" and "Agent 86." The encore was a superb cover of the Special's "Gangsters". Here's to more shows I hope!

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Then Saturday, I was talked into the Raybeez tribute show. It was free and in Bushwick, so it was all good fun at the Wreck Room (which is a bar, which is why they kept on having to kick out the under-21 youngsters). The atmosphere was fantastic at this show. Once the crowd got worked up, it was much enthusiastic dancing (I say dancing because while it was energetic and rough, it was all in good spirits, so dancing!) Each band did at least one Warzone song. One band covered "Real Enemy." The girls were especially awesome at this show, go them, they tore it up gleefully! I talked with a promoter, asking her wasn't the Pyramid a gay club? And she says they have a gay night, but Sundays they got for hardcore shows since CBGB's closed. Awesome. Good work! Ah, but the show was loud. Maybe it's high time I invest in earplugs for punk/hardcore/oi! shows? Eek.

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Total success with getting Sigur Ros tickets though TICKETMASTER IS STILL VERY ANNOYING AND CRAPPY AND NOT FAN FRIENDLY. I just got lucky, as opposed to ALL THOSE OTHER GODDAMN TIMES when I was unlucky. We pay for this torture? Feh to that.

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Sunday there was a Queens County Fair which had an old carnival machine pumping out "authentic carousel music." It sounded like that grand intro to the Adicts' "Sound of Music" album. Later on my sis said it was playing Bye Bye Blackbird, which she recognized off the History Boys soundtrack. Ha! Good grief!

Then we were in the Bavarian garden section and listening to a German band play drinking songs and we were all "hoi hoi hoi!" though we did not drink beer and counting "eins zwei... schouk-something," whatever the German word was for DRINK! (It wasn't trinken though...) After eating apple strudel, we caught a small marching band on stilts and then we heard awesome covers by Nassau Mid-Island Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society which was a choir made up of elderly gentlemen! They did "Under the Boardwalk" beautifully!!! I'll have video later. There was also a performance by the AfterGloWorms which I think is a great name!

Phew. The End.