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The Horrors: Spitting Out Your Inner Demons

Fucked up sounds for fucked up people (that's NOT Paul Weller fans)
07 februari 2001, Melkweg, Amsterdam (NL)

Tekst: Martÿn ter Haar

Publicatiedatum: 05 maart 2001

Horror's frontman Bones looks and dresses like a tv-salesman. That and the acoustic guitar he entered the stage with probably made the 40-something fans of Paul Weller, who had given a concert earlier in Paradiso's main hall, think they might like it. The sound Bones got from his guitar, using a cheap lighter as a slide, was exactly the opposite of Weller's and his fans didn't know how fast they should leave. Bones is one of those musicians that seems possessed as soon as he starts playing, staring at the floor and completely detached from reality. Joining the possessed tv-salesman from Cedar Rapids, Iowa were Dam Easy, the other guitarist, the local criminal and drummer Edward Scatters, a highschool kid who looked the entire time like he couldn't believe he was really on a European tour. The trio sounded like on their debut record, which is good and not too surprising since it was recorded live. The main difference was that Bones turned out to be a much better singer than the album, on which the vocals are hardly audible, suggests. Where the Horrors rely on their inner demons for their music, labelmates Speedball Baby bring years of experience and typical New York showmanship to the stage. And they got enough of that to be able to still rock the Paradiso without bringing any of the guest musicians that played on 'Uptight!'. Guitarist Matt Verta-Ray can play anything, but the undisputed frontman is singer Ron Ward. He looks and moves like Seinfeld's Kramer, sounds like Beefheart and is punk enough to spit beer into the face of an annoying audience member. When that same person still screams for an encore, you know you got a band with charisma, even if the person in question happens to be a drunk psycho.

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