Laundry
June 8th 2008
I have been waiting for this show... I saw the Foreign Beggars twice in London and both times was blown away so my expectations were high... I bigged these dudes up to anyone who would listen and wondered whether they could possibly be as good as I remembered them... To start I will say they blew the lid of the Laundry, it was an insanely brilliant performance!!!
But I will start at the start... We rolled late, 11ish, as I was sober and hate standing around for a million support acts... Brendan is a star for putting this show on but I just don't think that any promoters over here realise that if you have one fantastic act you only need one or two maximum support acts... Now I arrived at 11 and still managed to see 2 of the supports and I must say that they pretty much sucked...
Cyclones looked and sounded amateur, no energy yet they kept demanding that the crowd 'get rowdy', well boys you lead, we will follow... They didn't lead and we were all just stood there waiting for something good to happen... I must say at least these boys could dress themselves which is more then I can say for most Aus' hip hop acts...
Mark563 played in between sets, churning out classic after classic, getting the girls dancing and the boys rhyming along... Fraksha was hosting, but seemed to struggle with keeping the crowd focused through the technical difficulties, I just need a little more banter from a host...
Next was Tall Man Sound System... People looked a little interested in this, but mostly they floundered... These dudes looked a mess, one of them had the most battered disgraceful adidas on, he should not have been allowed to leave the house with those on, let alone grace the stage before such an anticipated act...
And finally the Foreign Beggars... The energy alone was crazy, and it was give and take, these boys brought a massive show to a small stage... Everyone was going crazy, the boys performed well, even in light of technical difficulties they kept the crowd right in the palm of their hand... 'Hold On' was the highlight, I felt like I was on the most amazing drugs ever, yet I was stone cold sober, with pure adrenaline keeping me as high as every other person in the crowd... Ending with some drum and bass and the whole place was jumping... I have been going to that venue for almost ten years and I have NEVER seen it like that, a wonderful experience, that shows up every other show I have been to in Australia in the past year, or maybe 2...
