punk concert

My buddy Yoshihisa invited me to a concert where his band 'High Sense' would be playing. He's the drummer. High Sense are apparantly really popular in the Sapporo punk scene. According to his email, "We'll make a punk lover out of you!" We'll see about that. :P

So I arrived a good 20 minutes before show time, most of the crowd looks like university students. I get stares of course. The show starts, some of the newbie bands open up. The first band, 'THANKS' wasn't bad, but the audience didn't really warm up to them. The second, 'Tanetaroh' was pretty good, some of the 40 or so audience members started to groove. The guitarist/vocalist guy did some really crazy things with his guitar, and at the end it looked like he was trying to eat it. The third band, 'GRAVE A NAME' was this wierd mix of punk and hip-hop. The voalist trying to look like a rapper amused me. Number four was 'Men's Life Station', I missed them because I needed to get away from the second-hand smoke and get some fresh air. 'High Sense' was last, and they were obviously who everybody came to see. The audience suddenly ballooned to about 200 people crammed into this tiny club. Their music is good. These crazy guys at the front, maybe 8 or so, started pushing into each other and taking ramming charges at each other. I thought it was kinda bizarre but it turns out they were trying to mosh. And they did. A few guys climbed up onto the stage to jump onto the crowd. The club wasn't really big enough, nor the cieling tall enough for that kind of thing, but they did it anyway. I was glad I was further back.

I bought High Sense's CD too. Bike music of course. For when I'm angry. *big grin*