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Review of Wrong Music show in Brighton 14/04/06

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Kunt, Toxic Lipstick & Company F*ck @ Wrong Music, Brighton (14/04/06)

Wrong Music is an event held in Brighton from time to time featuring the bleeding edge of gabba, breakcore, noisecore, grindcore and anything else within reach.  Tonight was no exception.  But since I was in the unusual position of being able to see Three Australian Acts on the same bill, I will focus on these three only.

The first of the three acts was Company Fuck, which consisted of a tall slim lad from the Gold Coast, his laptop, two mics, a mixer and some effects.  Despite starting his set late, the growing crowd of students, punks and other arty lunatics were treated to a set of mashed up Drill n Bass mixed with Breakcore broken up with Gabba basslines, all slashed apart then respliced together into a jagged pile.

If that all means nothing to you, imagine the sound of cutlery in a washing machine being thrown down a flight of stairs.  In a good way.  And he made me smile when he started his set by brutally violating 'A Suitable Metaphor' by Ben Lee.  Take that, ya smug sod!

One art-grind band and two DJs later, Brisbane's Toxic Lipstick took over the performance corner.  Toxic Lipstick consisted of two girls dressed in matching pink mini-skirts, white shirts and black manes shouting rhymes over pre-recorded tracks (not being able to transport their usual instrumental setup).  Imagine Cobra-Killer if they were from the outer-suburbs of Brisbane instead of Berlin.  Or a Friday Night Brunswick Street cat-fight remixed by Skinny Puppy.  Or TaTu if instead of making out they spent an entire set singing nasty schoolyard rhymes and beating each other up.

The backing tracks ranged from crunchy
electro-noise to digital-hardcore rhythmic distorto-scapes.  To be fair their deranged and wonderfully shameless lyrics were often laugh-out-loud funny.  However I am of the opinion that all the sketchy electroclash theatrical tomfoolery was merely a distraction from the seriously intense and impressively adept programming.

Finally came the final Antipodean act, a female duo charmingly titled Kunt.  Lulu Deluxe might now live in Japan, and her sister in crime Dr Rock might reside in Berlin, but Kunt started in Brisbane.

Hailed by a distorted fanfare, they began their set wearing matching horse-heads before ripping off the horse-heads and breaking into some aggressive synchronised Krumping.  Then they switched gears by breaking into a shattered cover of 'That Ain't Bad' by Ratcat, possibly lost on the mostly English crowd.  Next was some rapping over an ACDC loop, which thankfully is universal.  Note: Kunt don't interact with audiences so much as physically attack them, as if the crowd are there for their amusement, not the other way round.

Vocal parts and dance numbers were broken up by caustic KAOS Pad insanity, up to and beyond the pain barrier.  The climax of their set, as always, came when Lulu strapped on the steel cod-piece and ran outside with the angle-grinder to blast sparks into the air in time to the apocalyptic acid beats.

The set ended with Lulu and Dr Rock dressed as suburban Australian males, performing a final song in these new characters.  For my money, this part of the set didn't work so well and I'm of the opinion it would have been better to end with the grinder.

Added by company fuck on 23 April 2006