There’s a party feel to this gig, there’s a wide range of folk in the audience including it would appear a lot of relations and friends of the band, everyone from Uncles to ear protector wearing kids and it gives the place a friendly feel.
Problem Patterns have come all the way from Belfast to unleash their punk noise on Birkenhead. Its hectic stuff, the band change instruments and places as quickly as they do songs. One minute the bass player is on drums and the guitarists is on bass and they all sing and sometimes its a two guitar lineup and then off we go again. The multi talented band can back it up with an in your face wall of punk noise, mic’s are shouted at and guitars hit with fury as drums are smashed. Passionate and sincere.
Piss Kitti are starting to sound bigger and better by the minute, they show restraint so their set is not a full whirlwind of noise but instead digresses into cool melodies as well as back into the more familiar vicious guitar and screamed vocals. Their playing with tempo and volume really does let the angrier moments stand out so when they reach a full musical attack the music jumps out at the audience in a wall of furious sound and angry vocals. Its also odd to note that Piss Kitti even as they mature as a band have lost none of the sense of danger they had, there’s an air of unpredictability and of conviction about the band.
Crapsons are in front of their home crowd in Birkenhead for the first time they say. They also say they’ve never played a full hour before but tonight they’ll give it a go. The often short songs (who else can release and 8 and half minute full album with 11 songs on it?) are interspersed with some very funny banter and they make the most of the home fixture. There’s nuns on stage and children as well as random members of other bands and its all good natured but the music machine part of Crapsons can’t be ignored. They make more noise in their brief musical bursts than most bands do over decades. Its loud and fast as well as fun, the lyrics are sharply observed but never cruel. Its a band with something to say and musically they have the means to do it especially now they are a three piece outfit with an additional guitar now welded to their Bass and Drum lineup. They deliver direct blasts of punk common sense to the audiences nervous system and the cheering goes on for some time after they finish.
Words: Richie Yates, Photos: Richie Yates/Adrian Wharton
Links:
Crapsons: https://www.facebook.com/crapsons
Piss Kitti: https://www.facebook.com/pisskitti
Problem Patterns: https://www.facebook.com/probpatterns
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