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BAD BOYS FOR LIFE 2
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As ever with live stuff the old cliché applies as tautly combed as much of the hair featured herein, and that’s that unless you were there* or have nothing better to do than watch DVD’s all day there’s obviously limitations to this which is why all the extras make it still a worthwhile venture. Especially if you’re desperate for some wild hair and can’t quite work up the courage to go ask the scary psycho guy how he does his, then watch and marvel. It also helps that at least half the bands here are pretty fucking good at their murky otherworld ghoul rock too, but still, unless you can endure endless numbers of songs of a fairly static stage show then you might wanna just buy the records instead. However, this DVD did dig my head out of the sand somewhat by waking me up to the fact that Deadline aren’t a crummy Oi band (not totally anyway). I was even unaware they had a lass singing too, which made me pass them off as femme indie Echobelly lameasses with a bit o’ brute punk muscle from the building site. Y’know, band need singer so bloke gets his wife / sister to do it. But they’re possibly the best turn on this DVD. Quite some turnaround, I’m sure you’ll agree. I think this years cirque du insanity has just wound up too so we can look forward to Volume 3 later this year with Demented and The Bones.
*During Deadline’s set one dude is unconscious right at the front of the
stage near the monitors. Hope he’s bought it to work out what he was doing
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whole concert from the ‘Where The Bad Boys Rock Tour 2005’ featuring a
bunch of rockin’ reprobates from the People Like You label. So you get Mad
Sin, US Bombs, Deadline, The Generators, District and The Deep Eynde for
your euros, pounds and dollars. All in rough n’ ready super stereo sound.
And being the punk as fuck fuckers that they undoubtedly are PLY have gone
the whole hog to test the boundaries of your stomach lining to withstand
sicko-psycho-punkabilly and provided a whole ‘nother disc full of stuff,
promos, some Bones clips and a view from behind the scenes, backstage and
from behind the bus with a bleary visioned ‘Handycam Special’, which
actually features a lot of the best footage as it’s captured raw and
rancidly real, without any post-production which at times can stifle the
most sizzling onstage band, removing the excitement you witness from
sidestage or in the pit and making them seem stilted. There’s also some
intriguing clips of this ragtag parade of underground Rock’n’Roll pirates
carefully twisting their pompadours into shape, and them comparing tattoos
and discussing pomades and hairsprays (mmmm, not really tho it woulda been
funny) and a gallery of live shots...should you, y’know, have a fetish to
fulfill that needs a large picture of Mad Sin’s Kofte or Duane Peters.