Death Pill & The Blunders

Venue:

The Louisiana, Bristol

Date: 12/06/2023

A lovely sunny night in Bristol, so why not wander down near the waterfront and enjoy some delicious punk rock in a tiny venue?

First up was The Blunders. Last time I saw these they were performing ACAB – The Musical at a festival, it was late at night and I was a bit drunk and there was a man dressed as a cat onstage and it was all very confusing. No such shenanigans tonight, a straight ahead three piece gig. They look like old squatters, but the music is more post punk with a vague dancey feel. They probably wouldn’t thank me for saying this, but they put me in mind of a crustier and angrier Franz Ferdinand. They were brilliant, and they’re on the bill for the Culture Shock / RDF gig I’m going to in October so looking forward to that even more now.

Death Pill play next. The headline here is that they’re a Ukrainian riot grrl band who started this tour in Kyiv. Not sure I’ve ever seen so much goodwill directed towards a relatively unknown act before they’d even played a note. The show was about forty minutes of ferocious punk, verging on thrash with breakdowns aplenty. They’re definitely not messing about, this was properly vicious at times, with some excellent throat shredding vocals. The young ones at the front had a sizeable moshpit going, while we stood nearer the back and nodded sagely. A few new songs at the end were a bit lighter, so it’ll be interesting to see what they do next.

The audience:

young punks, old punks, a few Guardian types who had possibly read the link I’m about to share

It made me think..

punk’s not dead, it doesn’t even smell that funny.

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