EVERYTHING WANTS TO KILL YOU
Australian Tour 7”
Old School Cartel
This was supposed to be handed out at the gig on the night,
but the pressing was delayed, and so it’s only just arrived in the post.
Recorded specifically to accompany their Australian tour, it comprises a new
song Everything wants to kill you,
and a Poison Idea Cover, Pure Hate.
Everything wants to
kill you starts in a no-fuss manner and displays the classic hardcore
which Slapshot are renowned for. The
lyrics describe how enrything in Australia wants to kill you (Dingoes take away your children). The
Crocodile Dundee samples are a bit funny - “That’s not a knife”. Pure Hate sees them put their own stamp
on the PI song, and it works well for them, they change the pace a tad without
sacrificing any of the song’s energy. The production is very clean on both songs, almost bordering on
slick, but it does give a lean and strong sound.
Package wise, a nice little 7”. Songs are on one side, the Slapshot logo is
etched on the other. There’s an insert, and a download code. Nice pic of a
shark on the front!
SLAPSHOT,TOE TO
TOE, HOSTILE OBJECTS, CROWNED KINGS, STRAIGHT TO A TOMB, STREET WAR
28.3.14 Hermanns Bar
STREET WAR kick off the gig with a set of metal-inspired
hardcore. In the ten or so minutes it took me to take a 7” back to the car, a
reformed STRAIGHT TO A TOMB’s set is all but over. I catch their last song,
a cover of Agnostic Front’s Your Mistake.
Melbourne’s CROWNED KINGS are up next with their full tilt old school inspired
hardcore. HOSTILE OBJECTS continue proceedings
a no fuss manner, putting in a sharp set of thrashcore featuring songs from
their Young God 7”. TOE TO TOE keep
up the pace with a set of old and new classics. Highlights include the older
favourites Slave, Slap of Reality and
Judas Kiss.
So then to headliners, Boston’s SLAPSHOT for their first
ever Australian tour. Fronted since their early 80’S inception by Choke - who looked pretty happy up on stage to be in
Australia, with an ever changing line up, they play pretty much everything you
could want to hear from Slapshot –some twice. Chip on my shoulder, Step on it, Hang up your Boots, Olde Tyme hardcore
were all in there, even their cover of the Smiths Bigmouth strikes again. Also included was their tour 7” song, Everything wants to kill you, inspired
by Australia's wild animals, spiders etc. Their set was rounded out by the inclusion of guitarist Craig
Silverman’s other band Star and Stripes infamous Skinheads on the rampage. All in all, a pretty energetic set.