Heart of a Punk Soul of a Rasta

The Dead Weather/Creature with the Atom Brain

If they wanted traditional venue bogs they should have come to me and I'd have told them - or they could just have watched the video for "Mirror in the Bathroom" by the Beat on youtube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTNpaaPHENE

After watching and enjoying Creature with the Atom Brain I went on my way home and visited their myspace site, the site said they were Alternative / Indie / Psychedelic, eh? No, no, no this band is quintessentially unequivocally absolutely unashamedly ROCK. ROCK with a capital RUH! And not the sort of chalky deposit you could easily break with a geology hammer either. They weaved and undulated in progressive stylie, wildly mood swinging between understated vocalising and sore necked pounding rampages. Very impressive - if that's your pleasure or even if it's your poison.

Dead Weather played the glorious "Horehound" album and the B sides to boot. Starting with "60ft Tall" and finishing up with "Treat Me Like Your Mother", Mosshart's best moment was perhaps the opener, towering eerily and precariously above the crowd by way of a upturned monitor. Mr White's moment for the memory banks was definitely during one of his excursions out from behind the kit to sing a stella version of Van (The Man) Morrison's "You Just Can't Win". There was little wrong here, a great album of material, a solid live performance, but there was no uncertainty of destination, and no white rabbit was pulled from a black hat, so unavoidably it was The Weather they had predicated.

So off I strode desperately needing a pee again, off towards Chinatown, not the "Chinatown" of Jack N with his knifed nose, not the Chinatown of Mickey Rourke in "Year of the Dragon" nor even the Chinatown of Sergeant John Ho. But where to pee? Easy. Up the side of the Diskery record shop, yes there's nothing quite like looking at some vinyl when you're having a lavvy, sorted! Hey next time you're in the wonderful Diskery, thumbing through the plastic pleasuring yourself, don't let to the man that it was me who pissed up his shop front, instead ask him to tell you the story about when the Beatles White Album was released, I couldn't do the story justice myself, believe!