Only knowing them from the Peace & War compilation I went to see the False Prophets playing at the Zeche Carl in '89 or a year earlier.
The first thing quite unusual about them was they had a female violin player, which is nothing special in crustcore nowadays.
But they didn't play crust, they combined punk with reggae, funk and rap.
At a certain point, the singer put a birdcage over his head, opened the tiny door right before his mouth and jumped off stage to do the next song.
He stood about a meter before me and I was stunned. Wildly gesticulating and with manic eyes the golden birdcage head yelled at me.
In my interpretation he tried to show how the metaphor of the encaged bird works for us.
Always a strange thing was the Toshimoto Dolls playing live, a local band that had a record out combining Detroit rock with space punk. Their singer and guitarist called himself Captain Space Sex and that's how he showed up, dressed in selfmade astronaut suits with helmets and antennas playing on that Sigue Sigue Sputnik guitar singing sweet as cough sirup. He usually got naked at the end of the gig and was sometimes all covered with body paint, just wearing a skirt that he would strip off during the gig.
wHaT stRangE giGs hAve yOu sEen?
Anyone saw Suicide?
The first thing quite unusual about them was they had a female violin player, which is nothing special in crustcore nowadays.
But they didn't play crust, they combined punk with reggae, funk and rap.
At a certain point, the singer put a birdcage over his head, opened the tiny door right before his mouth and jumped off stage to do the next song.
He stood about a meter before me and I was stunned. Wildly gesticulating and with manic eyes the golden birdcage head yelled at me.
In my interpretation he tried to show how the metaphor of the encaged bird works for us.
Always a strange thing was the Toshimoto Dolls playing live, a local band that had a record out combining Detroit rock with space punk. Their singer and guitarist called himself Captain Space Sex and that's how he showed up, dressed in selfmade astronaut suits with helmets and antennas playing on that Sigue Sigue Sputnik guitar singing sweet as cough sirup. He usually got naked at the end of the gig and was sometimes all covered with body paint, just wearing a skirt that he would strip off during the gig.
wHaT stRangE giGs hAve yOu sEen?
Anyone saw Suicide?