Bad Religion & NOFX Live
RDNx, 2-Oct-09 » 
NOFX and Bad Religion have been around in the punk rock scene for what appears to be forever. So much so the promo for their latest joint Australian tour is being marketed as “that way out cool uncle at the Christmas dinner with the piercing and the tattoo of the stoned tuna. He was different to your Dad, mysterious, exciting, and a little dangerous”.
Although that might give some indication of the average age of the band members, I am not sure it does either band justice as both put on a great performance last Wednesday night (30 Sept) at the Horden Pavilion, Sydney.
In keeping with the attitude of shunning the major record labels, and being true to the genre in which they play, the concert was live punk rock at its finest. Both bands started their sets very much in punk rock “pub-band” style – walking on with the house lights up and saying hello… then getting into it. This of course generates closeness with the audience that is hard for big concert acts to replicate.
NOFX came on first and played a great set of both well known and not so well know songs from their entire collection. I was not convinced about their attempt at a few racist/Hitler jokes, some of which were directed at their Mexican lead guitarist El Hefe went down that well with the crowd. Although a reference to Russell Crowe’s band and the fact that they are close friends with Frenzal Rhomb, who were in the wings, drew a roar from the crowd. Notwithstanding, they created through their music a great vibe that had the “pit” pumping with the obligatory crowd surfers and general mayhem.
After a half hour intermission, Bad Religion came on, and started their set with their hit Los Angeles Is Burning. They got off to a bit of a slow start, but after belting out a few favorites they had the crowd, who in large part had turned out to see them, pumping and the pit going off.
It was obvious these two bands work together well, given Fat Mike from NOFX did an attempted Ninja appearance during one of the Bad Religion songs, only to be head locked and muscled off stage by one of the guys from Bad Religion whilst lead singer Greg Graffin called for “security”!
If you like your live music with no pretention from punk rockers who know their art you cannot get much better than these two bands. But yes, the promo was right… “They’re older than you, and they rock a lot harder than you ever will. Kind of like your drunk uncle.”
NOFX and Bad Religion have been around in the punk rock scene for what appears to be forever. So much so the promo for their latest joint Australian tour is being marketed as “that way out cool uncle at the Christmas dinner with the piercing and the tattoo of the stoned tuna. He was different to your Dad, mysterious, exciting, and a little dangerous”.
Although that might give some indication of the average age of the band members, I am not sure it does either band justice as both put on a great performance last Wednesday night (30 Sept) at the Horden Pavilion, Sydney.
In keeping with the attitude of shunning the major record labels, and being true to the genre in which they play, the concert was live punk rock at its finest. Both bands started their sets very much in punk rock “pub-band” style – walking on with the house lights up and saying hello… then getting into it. This of course generates closeness with the audience that is hard for big concert acts to replicate.
NOFX came on first and played a great set of both well known and not so well know songs from their entire collection. I was not convinced about their attempt at a few racist/Hitler jokes, some of which were directed at their Mexican lead guitarist El Hefe went down that well with the crowd. Although a reference to Russell Crowe’s band and the fact that they are close friends with Frenzal Rhomb, who were in the wings, drew a roar from the crowd. Notwithstanding, they created through their music a great vibe that had the “pit” pumping with the obligatory crowd surfers and general mayhem.
After a half hour intermission, Bad Religion came on, and started their set with their hit Los Angeles Is Burning. They got off to a bit of a slow start, but after belting out a few favorites they had the crowd, who in large part had turned out to see them, pumping and the pit going off.
It was obvious these two bands work together well, given Fat Mike from NOFX did an attempted Ninja appearance during one of the Bad Religion songs, only to be head locked and muscled off stage by one of the guys from Bad Religion whilst lead singer Greg Graffin called for “security”!
If you like your live music with no pretention from punk rockers who know their art you cannot get much better than these two bands. But yes, the promo was right… “They’re older than you, and they rock a lot harder than you ever will. Kind of like your drunk uncle.”
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| Posted: | 2-Oct-09 10:22:23 pm |
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