the exploited are looking for exploited tattoos

word on the streets is the exploited are considering doing an inner sleeve on their next album of exploited tattoos. the new album should be out in three months, according to my edinburgh punk rock homing pigeon communication system.

 so if you’ve got exploited ink, send yer tattoo pix to poopshootmonkey@hotmail.co.uk

 HEADS UP:

benefit show in dunfermline at pj’s sunday june 1st. 12am to 12pm. overspill, 4 past midnight, down to kill, threats and more. £3 in, which is literally as cheap as chips… and a smoked sausage. let’s be realistic here. in support of fife stop the war coalition.

free 13th birthday show at carlton studios saturday 14th june. the exploited are headlining, with a couple of other bands playing. i totally saw the flyer on friday night but cannae mind who the others are. dunno when it starts either. i’m rubbish.

DELIBERATION OF THE DAY:

the carceral network does not cast the unassimilable into a confused hell; there is no outside. it takes back with one hand what it seems to exclude with the other. it saves everything, including what it punishes. it is unwilling to waste even what it has decided to disqualify. – michel foucault

TURN IT UP AND TUNE OUT:

my mate nips and i have been swopping music collections recently and he’s got a few gems nestled in between his propensity for rancid and the briefs (excuse me while i quietly puke on my boots). necros – iq32 ep is one of them. hailing from the breadbasket of the us, this is stripped down, badly-produced, intense ’80s hardcore. we’re talking songs about wanting to stay at home in your room, peer pressure, hating school and being a reject. get yer vans on, grab yer skateboard and tell yer mom to go screw herself. MIDWEST FUCK YOU!

dead kennedys… i heard they sucked live

before you ask, yes my dj set was great.

actually teaze was pretty good, there were a lot of different burlesque dancers. although it was no club noir, there was a chick that blew fire. but not for very long, which kinda sucked. they also kicked me off early to get the techno on, but loads of people came up to me and said that i should have been on longer and that i should get the last song. i completely agreed with both statements, but the higher powers seemed to be more into drum & bass than drum and bass and vocals and guitar.

i’m not sure how i feel about burlesque these days. ages ago i was going to get a pin-up girl tattooed on my arm, rather than sharkie the shark that i have now, but i changed my mind after reading andrea dworkin’s book pornography. bearing in mind it was written in the ’80s and porno then totally sucked, she points out how much violence against women is depicted in pornography. even when it’s girl-on-girl, there is always an element of submission. while the girls were shaking their shit on stage this friday, i couldn’t help thinking, ‘who are you doing this for? yourself or some guy?’ someone was like ‘well, maybe it makes them feel sexy.’ it just reminds me of meat, really.

however, i digress. i didn’t go to the dead kennedys, but i spoke to a couple people that did and they said it was really lame. apparently it was kinda out of time, and there was no energy. that is exactly what i expected, so i’m glad i avoided having the mental video of what they would be like, pieced together from live albums and footage of old shows, ruined.

the band’s myspace has a review of the show. according to the reviewer, the show was good, but it’s not very enthusiatically written, leading me to think that he’s either lying or being nice.

also spoke to a mate about the cute lepers gig. he said they were alright and not too poppy, but he really likes oxymoron, so sometimes his opinion is not to be trusted. don’t tell him i said that though.

HEADS UP:

benefit show in dunfermline at pj’s sunday june 1st. 12am to 12pm. overspill, 4 past midnight, down to kill, threats and more. £3 in, which is literally as cheap as chips… and a smoked sausage. let’s be realistic here. in support of fife stop the war coalition.

free 13th birthday show at carlton studios saturday 14th june. the exploited are headlining, with a couple of other bands playing. i totally saw the flyer on friday night but cannae mind who the others are. dunno when it starts either. i’m rubbish.

DELIBERATION OF THE DAY:

you have to realize that someday you will die. until you know that, you are useless. it is only after you have lost everything that you are free to anything. – crimethinc

TURN IT UP AND TUNE OUT:

the meteors – wrecking crew. jesus christ, i have had this cd stuck in my head for like a week. you know how you get a song stuck in your head? not one song, the whole cd. it has affected me so much i am quiffing my mohawk this weekend when i go out. that much. the opening song insane will get you running for your creepers and shaving in a flat top, i guarantee ya.