#5 The Bendigo Hotel 09.01.2014

Trench Sisters

Fucking great grind band, though live is kinda weird in a way. The vocalist spends most of the time between songs talking shit about the band and members, particularly himself. Lots of in-jokes which appear to be much funnier for the band. From his tone of voice (not to mention what he is saying) you get the impression he can't be bothered being there and would rather be elsewhere. You might think this was because it is their last ever gig, though he seems like this every time I've seen them. Soon as the song starts though it's just awesome.

Debacle

This band never disappoints. Crusty hardcorepunkgrindystuff and pretty damn tight. Vocalist doesn't seem to be quite as animated as he used to, but still entertaining to watch. Drummer is great to watch too.

Rort

Pretty tight band and always fantastic to watch. Vocalist produces some truly evil and angry sounding vocals loaded with reverb, yet he's such a nice and timid person. The crowd for Rort always amuses me. Not their best sounding gig tonight but thoroughly enjoyable.

Teargas

Slightly disappointed - I like their 7" and it's got that kind of sound that makes you think "this band is going to be amazing live", thought it didn't seem to be true. Having said that definitely a good live band but seemed to be lacking something, just don't know what.

Forward

Great fun band. Music is pretty cool hardcore, and definitely have a bit of that famous Japanese live band energy (mainly the vocalist). All looked exhausted (I think they had just arrived in Australia that day) but were still going hard. Vocalist started off by saying "I am from Japan. I don't speak much English. So Fuck You" which was prety funny at the time. After he did that for around 5 song gaps in a row it wore thin. But fuck it who cares they were great live, vocalist was on the floor for 90% of the set, making sure everyone was involves (bumping into people who weren't looking, snatching phones of out the hands of those who were using them). Chugging a few drinks given to him later in the set just added to a bit of chaos, though end of the set looked absolutely fucked and possibly about to chuck. Fun band.

Check all the bands out here:
http://trenchsisters.blogspot.com.au/ http://trenchsisters.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/debacle.crust http://debacle.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/RORT/309153119121094 http://rort.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thehammerneverstops http://teargas.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/FORWARD/316767819814 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B06_aS46JN8