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• Monday May 7th, 2007

So on a fine Sunday off we trooped to see Cherry Rock ‘007. Ruth was dragged out of bed and despite much prodding we were slightly late and stopped for food - which resulted in missing Shooting Unarmed Men who started the whole thing. WTF BTW? Was this an attempt to get people to come earlier by putting them on early? If so, next time advertise the bloody schedule better. Thanks. I couldn’t get Ruth to wear skanky rock chick outfit. Apparently real female rock chicks (who can actually play instruments) wear what is comfortable on stage rather than cut-off keys, tattoo-exposing halter tops and black leather boots. Who knew? ducks Thankfully there were a lot of other people in attendance who had appropriately dressed. We waved briefly at Ms Fits and Richard Watts (also early starters) and then sat down to watch music. The Good Digger and the Pussy Cats - A lot of fun - an excellent wake-up call. Entertaining albeit not nearly as funny as they think they are. The Five Venoms - Very amusing. Long-haired metal/rock done Chinese-style. Especially enjoyable was watching the parents of one of the band members. The father in his white cardigan looked very much like “this isn’t what we had in mind with all of those classical music lessons…” Also Ruth’s ‘new favourite band’… :) The Palenecks - fun fun fun. Silly folk/comes rock/comes The Pogues with great lyrics and a lead singer who looks just like Charlie Pickering (but according to MySpace is in fact a chap named Heath). Going to go to their EP launch on the 18th at the Tote. Johnny Casino - A lot of fun. Great set and amusing lyrics. Really enjoyed them. Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Fun. Loud, aggressive and slightly mental. Bollocked the security guards a few times for playing it a little rough with the moshing crowd. Angry, young man rock. A good set. Rocket Science - The head liners. Quite rock - more Ruth’s taste than mine but a good solid bouncing set. Some new stuff and some old stuff. The Bad Alex Harvey Experience - Hyped and really not very entertaining. Seemed to be a few issues with making music with the instruments too. The Stabs - Whinged all the way through their set about the rider, it being Sunday, them being hung-over, etc, etc. Overall, phoned the set in. Not overly impressed. The Ho-Hum Dynamo - The original party band. Emphasis on band - as in band camp. Half the line-up look like they were in the band at high-school and were trying really, really hard to be cool. I think they failed but YMMV. The Double Agents - Don’t know why these guys didn’t work for me. But they didn’t. We pissed off to go see The Palenecks (I think) instead who were great. The Pink Fits - leopard skin bikini-clad Edgar Rice Burroughs- esque girl dancing on stage. Hmmmm. A little lame I though. The Black Guns and The Devil Rock Four - Dull, derivative suburban rock verging on hair metal. Ho hum. Overall a fun day. Hope next year’s is equally as good.