so just found that dead kennedys will be playing at the liquid rooms on friday may 23. i am djing at a burlesque night so i don’t think i’ll be able to catch the show.
they are touring to promote their new comp ‘milking the sacred cow’, which is available to buy in hard copy and also to download. the premise is that the comp’s playlist is the top ten downloaded dead kennedys songs. the only new songs on it are live versions of ’soup is good food’ and ‘jock-o-rama’, hardly a reason to spend $8.98 plus shipping or the same on a copy from itunes. the other hook is the promise of new artwork, but there is no way anything could live up to winston smith’s bad-acid-trip drawings forever associated with the band.
‘milking the sacred cow’? it doesn’t count as sarcasm if it’s true.
back in the day i would have totally freaked out and camped outside ripping records to get a ticket, but now i wouldn’t go see them even if i didn’t had something else to do. their most recent singer, jeff penalty, left the band in march of this year. on the dead kennedy’s website, they stated the split was due to scheduling conflicts but penalty described his departure from the band as “not amicable”. he mentions arguments about creative differences, whether or not they should appear on mtv (a ludicrous proposition from a band who penned ’mtv get off the air’) and about hiring a band manager whose stable of clients includes a christian folk singer (the song ‘religious vomit’ springs to mind).
penalty’s sign-off sums it all up: “and jello, you’ve been wrong about a lot of stuff, but you were certainly right about not trusting those guys… ” this is an allusion to the band’s six-year civil war over royalties and the rights to the band’s music. while i don’t think any party was totally right, you can’t help but seethe along with biafra when you hear about ’holiday in cambodia’ being featured in an edition of guitar hero. wtf?
the icing on the proverbial cake, dh peligro won’t even be manically banging the drums! he is apparently taking “personal time off”. one wonders if this has anything to do with penalty’s depature.
anyways, east bay ray and klaus flouride will be making an appearance, but from the sounds of it, they will be probably be requesting only evian water and blue m&ms in the dressing rooms.
i think i’ll be washing my hair that night.
go to ripping records for tickets (support independent, don’t buy from tickets scotland!)
HEADS UP:
show at Bannermans Friday 9th May. doors 8pm. certain death, peep show, the dirty pickups. £4 in. it’s a fundraiser for Auld Reekie Roller Girls with raffle prizes and a “cookie fest”.
s.x.p.p. all-dayer at carlton studios saturday 10 may. 12:30pm to 3am. loadsa bands with the u.k. subs headlining. £17 in. come get drunk.
DELIBERATION OF THE DAY:
in a secularised society of individuals it is no longer religion but celebrity that is the opium of the masses – j. dik
TURN IT UP AND TUNE OUT:
i’ve been burning a hole in my crass – penis envy cd. sometimes brushed aside as it is their feminist album and eve libertine does lead vocals, the beginning of bata motel kicks my ass every single time it blasts on.
