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Ikara Colt / The Parkinsons / 80s B-Line Matchbox Disaster @ London Garage, 26.03.02

THE PARKINSONS

Complacent, passive, insignificant - and that's just the NME. Imagine what it would be like if a band was actually like that. Imagine what it would be like if this band was still good. Imagine 3 bands exactly like that. James Berry has all the info.

26/03/2002

Tonight, on this much touted 3 band battering-ram of a bill, the actual music is both as insignificant and passive as it is the most complacency-smashing and ear-shatteringly important thing you're likely to come in contact with this year, if not for years to come. See, as much as its foundations are built on innards-churning guitars and howling, scythe-like vocal and lyrical stomping, its pulse is driven by an unmitigated, heartfelt belief, a new feeling of freedom and community, a desire to go that extra mile in every aspect so you don't fade into the background, because the background is the most lifeless, insignificant and pointless place you could end up. Here are 3 bands who believe, know, they can and probably will each make a difference. Under these circumstances they don't need to be that good, the inescapable atmosphere (y'know, the feeling you always believed gigs could give you, should give you, but never really did) should take care of that.

Which is something The Parkinsons make most use of. Because it's not that they're bad, far from it - they collar and throttle old school punk insensibilities, flying round the stage, and through the crowd, like firecrackers with sparks to spare - but the fact is they're not the absorbing pyrotechnic car crash we've been told to expect. And after rumours flying around the country from earlier dates on this tour and reports of their first chaotic London shows this all seems a little bit Playschool. No nudity! No violence! No onstage defecation! Nothing. But still it remains that in intention and stamina they fit tonight like a studded glove and can only add to it in that sense, even if they're a bit too straight in another.

Which is exactly what 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster are not, because they are quite simply everything. They are the anti-Matchbox 20. They are aspects of all your favourite rockers from the past 50 years. They are blood raw and tender, light and dark, all surface and all feeling. They play like a drunk Rocket From The Crypt doing The Verve thrown through the blender by Ministry, but even more punk and even less coherent. The singer really is Richard Ashcroft's doppelganger from the 'mad' early years and would give the current version an electric cattle-prod shock. He clambers into the audience halfway through, coming practically face to face with Crud, and seeing his eyes shut tight, his body shuddering to a different beat, calling out heartfelt inaudibles, there is no doubting that he is a star and they are one of the most inspiring things we have ever clapped our retinas on.

Which could have really taken away from Ikara Colt's coming of age, prove yourself headline tour were they not such a cast-iron lump of joyous marvellousness. The album 'Chat & Business' has already established them as hard-line gate-keepers of this Scene With No Name, really giving it an identity while ushering in the likes of their touring partners. And they have become 10 times the live band since we first witnessed them at last years Leeds Festival, when even then we were shocked stupid by their force. Now there really is something celebratory about their stride, singer Paul especially has gone from being on a stage to owning it, swinging from the rafters, lunging through every blast of intensity. And the likes of 'Rudd', 'Sink Venice' and 'One Note' sound every bit like grubby-gold-plated art-rock anthems. As is fitting for this pile-up of a gig it climaxes with a mass stage invasion, bodies slamming into each other, band limbs occasionally visible. It surely can't get much better than this. Now there's a challenge. Don't just sit and watch and wait now. Come on!

James Berry for Crud Magazine 2002©



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