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Lords of Acid at Cabooze Lords of Acid Setlist
Tour Dates
03/12/2019 The Gramercy Theatre New York, NY
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In some parts, the day before Lent can be known for its hedonistic debauchery, decadent excess, and merry-making celebrations – which made seeing The Lords of Acid on Fat Tuesday the absolute best and most appropriate place to be--
The influential Belgian electronic/industrial group was in town as part of the Pretty in Kink Tour, bringing with them a bevy of other acts and a very adult evening of raucous entertainment.
The four hour-plus evening started after a chilly wait outside for doors to open, with a short performance from Little Miss Nasty, a quartet of Los Angeles-based women that is part burlesque show / part high energy dance routine, moving to your favorite hard rock songs (Korn, Metallica, etc) as their soundtrack.
The group becomes a little more scantily clad as the performance goes on, and they returned for another and longer performance, later in the evening just before the headliner.
Industrial metal band Genitorturers proclaim themselves as the “world’s sexiest rock band” and after over thirty years of proving that point and putting on a forty-five minute set that had more theatrics than a full Alice Cooper show, they just may be right.
Gen has been their lead vocalist since their start in Orlando in the mid 80’s and the rest of the band (Eric Griffin- guitar; Ryan Seelbach- bass; Kriz D.K.- drums) play an industrial-tinged blend of punk inspired, rhythm-driven Sunset Strip rock and the band’s last full-length, 2009’s Blackheart Revolution was well represented, along with classic older cuts.
In the parts we can describe, Gen battled a large red devil-like figure on stilts, had sparks fly from her metal codpiece, flung lighted whips about the stage, and had a preacher-type character receive their comeuppance.
Missing for a few years from the scene, Los Angeles industrial nu-metal band Orgy has returned, with not even a cast boot (the result of a foot broken during a recent move) could stop singer Jay Gordon (along with Carlton Bost– guitar; Nic Speck– bass; Ilia Yordanov– rhythm guitar; Ryan Browne– drums) from re-acquainting the crowd to their music.
The band opened their forty-minute set with their newest single, last year’s ‘Army to Your Party’ (with more new music on the horizon) and during an extended ‘Dissention’, Gordon gave tribute to late Prodigy singer Keith Flint, but also reminded everyone in the audience that they were too valuable and loved, to want to even consider the same fate.
Gordon and co. ended strongly with their two biggest hits- their first single, ‘Stitches’ and 1998’s cover of New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ which took Gordon into the crowd, singing alongside the jumping fans that surrounded him.
Finally, it was time for the main event as Lords of Acid took to the stage for their headlining set beginning with a pair from 2000’s Farstucker, with the starting riffs of their opening ‘Sex Bomb’ literally dropping a bomb on things and overloading the power system to everything on stage, just two minutes in.
In less than a minute, all was re-set and the groundbreaking group, led by one of the godfathers of New Beat and modern techno, Praga Khan, resumed things with a bang. The band’s latest singer is fellow Belgian Marieke Bresseleers, whose range and classically-schooled vocals, as well as her magnetic stage presence, make for their best addition in years. Galen Waling– drums, DieTrich Thrall– bass, and Sin (Ministry, American Head Charge) Quirin- guitars fill out the musically impressive current lineup.
Their sound teeters between the classic early techno of the Belgian New Beat movement that they helped spearhead in the late ‘80s, and the more industrial rock that the band has leaned toward since the millennium, making for an interesting mix as also evidenced on their latest full-length, Pretty in Kink (Metropolis Records).
‘Break Me’ and ‘Sex Cam Girl’ were both from the new record, the latter especially taking advantage of Bresseleers’ multi-octave howl and Khan’s deft synth grooves. A two-fer from the classic 1991 album Lust - ‘Rough Sex/Take Control’ took things back to an underground Euro rave club feel and during ‘Rubber Doll’, the inflatables came out and were tossed about the crowd- blow up men, women, giant appendages, and even sheep.
‘P*ssy’ became even more of a song of female empowerment as Bresseleers invited all the women on stage to dance along, even someone very pregnant, who will have a memorable story to tell their future child. ‘Drink My Honey’ and the main set-ending ‘I Sit on Acid’ from 1991, are both lyrically very simple, but both feature the driving, dance-ready beat that defined a musical movement and a style that has influenced so many that have come after them.
The two-song encore started going back to 1991’s ‘Lust’ one last time for ‘Let’s Get High’ with Khan imploring everyone to dance carefree with its lyric “have some fun, this catastrophic, turn on the sweat machine” and Khan invited area guitarist John Marcus “Markiss” on stage, calling him “one of the best guitar players in the world” for 1994’s ‘The Crablouse’, the exclamation point to an evening that had to be fully seen and heard, to be truly believed.
Minneapolis may be on the other end of the Mississippi River from New Orleans and all of their famous Mardi Gras parties, but on this Fat Tuesday, there was no better place to celebrate, dance, and rock, than with musical legends Lords of Acid.
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Lords of Acid at Cabooze, Minneapolis (05 March 2019) |
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