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Thursday, 05 June 2008
As a nation we’ve become gastronomically savvy in recent years. Whereas in the past the opening of a new Chinese restaurant in the local parish would have been greeted with an equal mix of enthusiasm and curiosity, nowadays our palettes are far more promiscuous in their search for exotic culinary kicks. But in our pursuit for Michelin Stars, raw fish, Malaysian street food and Spotted Prawn poached with Fava Beans and Wasabi, we’ve forgotten the simpler things in life – like the humble potato for example.  Perhaps served with a nice, unfussy hunk of beef, shed of the Laura Chenel Goat Cheese Foam and translucent Beet Paper.

What’s the point of this mouth-watering metaphor? It’s probably something to do with the fact that I’m totally starved but it also serves to raise the point of being able to still enjoy the tried and tested every so often along with the more experimental offerings. Take Awesome Colour for example: the Ecstatic Peace (label formed by Sonic Youth’s King of Indie/Noise Cool Thurston Moore) three peace make no bones about the fact that they exist solely to rock in the most non-contrived, irony-free, balls-to-the-walls way they know how. If they were a dish they’d be the aforementioned Meat/Potato/Veg combo – an oldie that while perhaps unglamorous  remains a firm favourite for its BS-free approach.

But they’re not a meal, they’re a rock band. Like classic Stooges, they eschew the more esoteric and experimental tendencies of many of their peers, and simply turn up, tune-up, turn-up (the volume) and play classic, unrefined garage rock n’roll. Big chords, bigger fuzz!! They make their way to Ireland having recently supported Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur Jr? Thurston Moore? Awesome to the max! They play Ping Pong (Liquid Lounge) on Saturday, June 5. Support on the night comes from Lim-rockers Seadog, a group so in tune with the classic twin-guitar harmony styling of  groups such as Thin Lizzy and those great weedian riff-mongers Black Sabbath that you’ll be forgiven for thinking you’ve been caught in some kind of backwards time warp. Be sure to pick up the Dogs latest slap of classic heavy-metal vinyl while you’re there also. They really don’t make em like they used to.


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