Candyflip Blackwood and Emily Flea outta the inestimably excellent anarchistwood joined Bugbear at Soho Radio just the other night to share some wunnerful Screenage Kicks. That is, film Music to take on the industrial military complex by if ya like, and if ya don’t like you’re probably a bit mutton and don’t dig good movies and good music ya dig, dig. So click on Funk Cutter above and have a listen although she didn’t make it to the studio on account of being poorly that pic from their Grow Your Own Festie appearance in The Dublin Castle a few months back is a really groovy image. If only we had time to maintain our Instagram account- volunteers apply within/without/wherever. Anyrate, for those who don’t know, anarchistwood offer forth the most sophisticated, esoteric yet still full on ferocious punk rock ramalama you could possibly hope for. Truly a thinking person’s primal screaming rocknroll experience..and I refer to the exorcistic therapy there not Wee Boaby G’s pop group of course.
The Wood- as nobody ever called them a la The Quo or The Scream so shaddup me- perform again bright and early on THIS remarkable bill of fare also in The Dublin Castle Saturday 24th June, but you’ll already know that from listening to the radio show above as advised. Contains Dirty Jonson action too ya know.
Pussycat in the Dublin is always immense, most definitely not to be missed. They just get better and better, the intensity of their very own brand of punk rock, the quality of the material, it’s all remarkably uplifting. The Stooges, Pistols, Stooges, Cramps and The Ramones all resonate but none of them guys had the confrontational but sympatico Puss up front challenging the audience at every whoop and yelp and delivering such monstrously cool songs. Why aint they massive part 94….. Army Of Skanks are powerfully hewn girls to the fore (well the drummer is a geez) punk pop n roll with a Runaways meets Babes In Toyland feel. Danie Cox’s Bowie and glam informed punk rock passion play The Featherz have ace songs aplenty, she can definitely write em. A corrective aural attack on all things mundane and murky in a post Trump world. anarchistwood on 8pm sharp, taking searing acid singed psych punk, cranium scrapingly intense and played with sass and joy and imbued with just a whiff of cool conceptual punk pranksterism.. these anarchists wood give the MC5 and The Stooges a run for their ramalama. Another shit hot outfit with strong woman upfront, Juno be praised.
Obituary can be sexy. Check our dim but delirious pulse by nudging yer mousey mousey onto the late Roger Moore below, as Ted Shiva and Tony Bugbear salute some recently deceased mover shakers with music to die for. Dead On Four is Reel Rebel Radio’s monthly trip in a low rider hearse with a well stocked bar to a marble lined vault stacked to the max full of great records. Make the journey to the grave a groovy one and sod the sod….