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Friday, 6 August 2004
ANTI FEST 2004
Mood:
 don't ask
I've got a brain bleedin' headache.Feelz like my eyez wanna crawl out thru my nostrilz and skitter across a cheese grater.
Course that all may be due to the fact that I've spent most of the day at Anti-Fest,an all day Horror punk/rock fest held at The Boston Bar & Grill here in Las Vegas.
Whatta disapointment that waz.Granted,being there for the first 8 hourz of the thing probably wazn't the best idea,that's when all the lamer bandz and the whole shebang just izn't happening for creaturez of the night.But by 8:30 at night I just couldn't take much more.Most of the time iz just sittin' around waiting for a band to come on.Frankly,it just getz boring.At first being entertained by the freekish humour of website host Malis The Great, iz all fun and gamez but even his Gwarlike with a hankerin' for cock schtick gets old after eatin' nothing but bar food,smokin' cigarettes and sittin' on uncomfortable bar stools for 8 hourz.
The few bandz that I did see AND that actually showed up were ok.Ecto 1 had some interesting death metal moments but I came here to see some horror rock and fo' thoze not in da know,THERE iz a difference.
An hour or so after that we were blessed by the prescence of another punk band called Day Of The Sick which proceeded in making everybody in the crowd uncomfortable,not so much by the angry punk all muzik,but cuz the singer,urged on by Malis The Great,took off all his clothes and danced around the bar drenched in fake blood and wigglin' hiz weenie to the beat of the band.That didn't so much bother me az did hiz horrible haircut that made him look like a naked man with cancer dancing around,which iz not what I payed the overpriced entry fee for.I waited all day 'round for thiz?Sure,ya can't get any more punk rock than that,but I waz expecting bad Halloween costumez and cheesy monster surf/garage rawk.After the show the singer,still drenched in blood but thankfully now wearing pants,did give me a sticker.
So by 8:30 and me being old and tired just got grumpy.It looked like it would be another two or three hourz before any sort of a crowd would arrive and for the bandz I really wanted to see to show up(Sin City Ghouls & The Necrotons)and I just couldn't take the waitin' anymore.I went home,took a few aspirins and stuck "The Werewolf Of Washington"in the dvd player(hey,at least there'z a midget in it!).
I can't blame Sin,the man behind Antifest,he looked like he wazn't enjoying it all that much either with bandz not showing up and the almost total lack of an audience too,but maybe it would be a better idea to not make it an all day thing,instead mayhaps just a night of it,with 3 or 4 top notch bandz,a few vendors from other sources like comic book storez or people that sell horror related items.And actually promote the darn thing so other glitterkatz n' ghouliedawgz out there would have an idea it waz actually going on.
Whatta bummer.I waz looking forward to this show.
Oh well,I did get some good newz today-The Cramps are coming to Vegas 'round Halloweenie time!
Guess there'z no such thing az Halloween in August afterall.
Except at The Ragzpad.Mmmmm....home sweet home.
Ragz Rates It A;4.75
Posted by ragzdandelion
at 10:30 PM PDT
Updated: Friday, 6 August 2004 10:43 PM PDT
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