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Apers / Human Alert: Anarchy In Amstelveen

The Apers and Human Alert unleash anarchy on Amstelveens suburban youth
27 september 2002, P60, Amstelveen (NL)

Tekst: Martÿn ter Haar

Beeld: Sander Lameijer

Publicatiedatum: 10 november 2002

Rotterdam's the Apers will never win an orginality award with their Ramones punk sound. Singer Kevin Aper even wears a T-shirt of his idols, who had already made their best albums before the Apers' parents even met each other. That could explain why the Apers stage antics have more to do with NoFX than with the notorious zombie stance of the New York punk godfathers.

Where the Apers show was crowd-pleasing entertainment at its best, Human Alert take things to a whole new level. The Amsterdam anarchopunk veterans unleash a tidal wave of chaos on the unsuspecting skate punk kids from Amstelveen, Amsterdam's suburbia. If the Apers are like a good episode of your favorite sitcom, Human Alert is more like Gummo. Disturbingly funny, completely original, and pretty sick. Singers Roel and Willum are like a comic duo of Batman villains, taking the duet to places it has never been before. That is, when they're not insulting the audience or getting lost in completely surrealistic, in-between-song banter. The rest of the band goes along with the madness, but, at the same time, plays a rock-solid show. Almost all songs from Human Alert's latest album, Dirty Dancing, are performed with all the Kurt Weil, rock 'n' roll, and metal influences that make the album so great, intact.

And then when everybody thinks it's over, Willum asks the soundman to start the outro music again and invites everybody to come dance on the stage, while he himself rants on for about 15 minutes about nothing in particular. And then he decides it's time for one last song, 'Big Black Hole.' After those last convulsions of the dadaist punkers supreme, the necessity of anarchy in Amstelveen is understood by everyone in P60.

http://www.kindamuzik.net/live/human-alert/apers-human-alert-anarchy-in-amstelveen/2037/
Meer Human Alert op KindaMuzik: http://www.kindamuzik.net/artiest/human-alert