Next up in this odd lineup was Sugar Donut. They play kind of power pop. Sounding something like Weezer, but like older good Weezer, not newer suck ass Weezer. They really rocked hard, and the kids ate it up. The best song of the night was “Spinner Jump,” played by these fellows. Everyone was going nuts, including one really drunk girl (I think she was a highschool student) who did this really odd move in the pit. She would lean forward and walk into people headfirst into their midsections. Whatever, it’s all well and good, since she didn’t puke.
The last band of the evening was Schizo. Schizo are a metal band. They play metal music. Among their set were covers of Rob Zombie (”Dragula”) and Rob Zombie’s earlier work as White Zombie (”Super Beast”). Anyhow they had this bass player who was totally hot in a heavy metal sexpot kind of way.
They show was totally awesome and I learned something about Korean rock music fans; for the most part they are women, and they are ruthless. These girls would go totally aggro during the heavy parts of songs jumping, kick, headbanging with fists pumping in the air. At one point I turned around and saw a girl behind me had a bloody nose, but wasn’t letting that stop her. She was still jumping and flailing about like a dervish.
The other thing was the venue was about a million degrees, but that didn’t stop anyone from going totally apeshit during the show. By the end of the night my clothes were drenched with sweat as were the clothes of everyone else at the show. I kind of had the same feeling after the show that I had after a sparring class from back in the days when I did tae kwon do: I was hot, sweaty, on the verge of puking do to overwork, and had been hit in the nuts…you gotta love out of control rock shows. With the final notes having been played, it was time to go home.
I stepped outside into a torrential downpour, and realized my umbrella was gone. So journeyed home without an umbrella for 20 minutes. When I arrived I was completely soaked, only now it was rain water and not sweat. All in all not a bad night.
Oh and in case you have not realized it, I now have Flickr, and more pictures from this show can be seen here.
