sound.delirium//reviews - Melt Banana, Le Scrawl Jena (Germany), 27.11.2003, club Kassablanca

    Hey, hey, these 2 bands on one stage? Fuck, this is really unbelievable, we have to go and why not to the long far Germany?
    I could not really believe, when Mr. Kamaryt informed me about this concert - 2 almost legendary bands, which i have already not seen before and i thought, i will never see them in future. So excellent. Our line-up to this concert was consisted by 5 members, of course my usual driver on my trips to foreign country - Mr. Mira Vejvoda. As usually we had to meet each other a day before gig in pub, so nobody could sleep very well. In the morning we are going to As (tlen), a tragical traffic situation in Prague, loading our friend Karel from Onanizer band (they have new cd now) and going to Gemany. Our journey to Jena was without bigger problems, because i was not the navigator, ha, ha. The club Kassablanca was found very easy, so we continued in destroying of our reserves of beer and waitnig for future things.

    The session was started by multi music styles Le Scrawl from Germany. I have never believed, that is possible to play so genial music on live and i have also not heard about their live gigs, but their discography lp and headly gig finally persuaded me, that Le Scrawl are able to play on stage. Oh fuck, that is fucking cool! Only 4 members with keyboards. The head brain of this band Mario played mostly on bass guitar and sang, but during their almost 1 hour show he played also on normal guitar. He had more pieces of each instrument. And what is actually was like? Hmm, what., excellent bomb and fantastic! Their music is based headly on drums and bass guitar, that is brightly. Those no ordinary instruments - piano, saxophone, etc. which are possible listen on their recordings were supplied by keyboards and many of crazy sounds were make by guitar too. So excellent grind core/jazz music by amazing misters of this unique style of music. A couple of songs were played as normal jazz, when Mario sat on stool and showed guitar onany. They played enough of new songs and perhaps all songs from legendary cd "Q." The freaks under the stage did total mosh while i was looking at Le Scrawl as an idiot. An unique experience in my shitty life.

     So already olny due to Le Scrawl was this gig amazing. During the pause very fast for beer to car and stand into the first lines of crowd waiting for crazy Japans girls from Melt Banana. I looked forward to them as young child and when i had finally seen the godly singer-girl Yasuko, so i was almost over. She was dressed in red frock and under it something like track suit, ha, ha. The guitar player had the surgeon mask on his face and before him many of necessary guitar effects. I think something about 10 boxes! Rika´mm as bass player woman with bass guitar bigger then she was and drummer and.. lets goooooooooo!! Agata started grinded his instrument - terrible (amazing, of course) noise, the drummer did one, two, three by stick and the helter-skelter could start. The mosh pit full of freaks, headly girls were there - hmm, no ordinary at gigs in Czech., but we are in Germany! Directly the second song was the one from thier split 7"ep with Dynamite Anna and i had to go to the hell under the stage. I love this song! But when i wanted to jump, so i kicked to the iron stage, so jumping was over, so i better rolled by the floor, ha, ha, ha. Oh, the first orgasm. Yasuko was really lovely and she screamed as insane. Song by song very fast and i stayed and danced as entraced. Total exctasy and the second orgasm was in the second part of their gig when Yasuko announced noise core fast block. The songs maximally 10 second lenght with no pause, when the singer said only - thank you, next song is called. and blasting on. No doubt - excellent. They played quite enough songs which i did not know and these (and the old ones too) sounded as grind core in some parts, fucking storm, no mercy. The members of Melt Banana were total crazy as only the Japans can be. Rika´mm jumped with bass guitar as insane, the guitarist suffered his instrument very extreme and run across the stage as devil and the singer-girl Yasuko? It seems, i felt in love with her! I was total amazed by this my queen of noise hard core. They gig became better and better and they had to play next and next songs. One of the best gigs where i have ever been/heard!

    Uff, after gig i finally picked up my bag full of beers, so we could drink more and went towards home. The journey very very long, on the top of it we continued in drinking beer and then as well as wine. The sleeping was impossilbe, even if everybody wanted to do it the most of all things in the world. Of course, we lost the way in Prague and i have to tell the truth, it was after my becoming of new navigator, ha, ha. Well, we were in Havlickuv Brod untill 10 a.m. and lets go to the pub!? Finally Mira - the driver - who had to suffer as dog, because he had to drive 1000 kilometers without sleeping in shitty fog and moreover all around him drank as a dry shit, can drink, so as well as the rest of us continued in destroying our bodies and brains on. We (from Brno area) catch very hardly our last bus to Brno, next a couple of beers in Jedovnice pub, finally some meal, finally the bed.