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Fucked Up

Fucked Up

 

Monto Water Rats – Monday 14th July

 

Yesterday, I went off to Water Rats to catch Lovvers and Fucked Up. I pretty much missed Lovvers but the last track sounded cool and the intensity of the performance looked impressive too. But what would you expect from ex-members of Murder of Rosa Luxembourg?

Fucked Up lived up to their reputation and destroyed the place with tracks like ‘Two Snakes’ that are serious hardcore anthems. The highlights probably being them running ‘David comes to Life’ into ‘Invisible Leader’ as per on the on their last album and everyone going so nuts i'm pretty certain I had my faces quashed on the stage about twenty times. It's a good thing.

Also cool was watching a very large man (Pink Eyes the vocalist) being picked up and carried by the crowd. It's not every day a very large, very topless, very hairy man enraptures people to the point they spontaneously pick him up of the stage and carry him about. That and one of the three guitarists throwing himself into the melee, landing on his back on outstretched hands and staying there for a few minutes without missing a note. Oh, and some kid asking, "Have you done ‘David comes to Life’?"

 

"I'm afraid we played that one already, sorry."

"Can you do it again?"

Cue much amusement.

Yeah, Fucked Up are incredible. I thought we'd got away with a blood less show this time as well, until I got home and found one side of brand new Dunks covered in someone else's blood. Yummy. Regardless, I don’t care if you like hardcore or not, Fucked Up have become one of those bands you need to see as a phenomenal live act. Who else could pull of an 18-minute hardcore epic, complete with guitar solos and more? Not even Isis or Neurosis have done that…Which I think goes to show just how truly special this band is, just when you think you are beginning to know what they’re up to, they go and practically invent an entirely new genre of progressive hardcore.

Visceral, insane, loud, offensive and essential.

 

Reviewer - James Hoste

 

 

 

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