Fucked Up, JEFF the Brotherhood & Iceage played 285 Kent (pics & review)

June 27, 2011

285 Kent was super sold-out. There seemed to be a lot of hype around Iceage, who started the show. I’m not really sure why.

Jeff the Brotherhood followed and Jake kept getting shocked from the mic, so he put his sock over it to dampen the effect. Given how hot and sticky it was in there, that had to be kinda gross to put his mouth against. Nobody ever said rock’n’roll was easy. Or wouldn’t involve singing into your sock.

Fucked Up soundchecked with the Game of Thrones intro song, which was really badass. It reminded me of when Slash played the Godfather theme at Guns shows. Damian seems to be on a workout regimen of powerlifting audience members to stay in shape. He also passed out waterbottles to the crowd to give him a shower, which had to be refreshing because it was motherfucking hot in that place. It seems to be cooled with a single air-conditioner in the back wall. It read 60 degrees, which I assume was celsius.

It was one of those shows that when it’s over everybody in the front is literally drenched in sweat, and most of it other people’s. Some guy wiped his face all over Damian’s stomach pretty far into the set, and I could see Damian’s gut sweat running off the dude’s face after he did it. I honestly can’t imagine ever being drunk enough to think doing that is a good idea, but whatever, it’s a party.

Oh yeah, also, some dude was stagediving barefoot. Just for the record, dudes’ feet are totally gross. If some guy is up on the crowd barefoot, and his toe goes in your eye or mouth, it is completely justifiable for you and your friends to stomp the ever-loving shit out of him to discourage any type of that hippie behavior in the future. Dudes’ toes have absolutely no place at rock shows, unless you are taking your sock off to put it on a microphone……

More pictures Saturday night’s show at 285, and a video, below…

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Iceage

Iceage