Band/Festival: Kottonmouth Kings, Sen Dog, Literaries
Venue: Prince of Wales Hotel
Location: Bunbury, WA (Australia)
Date: 24/04/2009
The Prince was probably half full and the sweet, sweet smell of mary jane filled the air like the memories of high school parties. Pretty much went solo thanks to everyone pulling out but luckily found a couple of friends in the mix of bogans, wiggers and wanna-be tough nuts. Had a few Amsterdam’s before and too many ted’s which gave me a head spin, followed by a self induced spew of yellowy goodness when I got home. I got to stop doing that, drinking too much on weeknights is not fun anymore. Anyway, back to the weed: We’re standing outside the back area and joints are being passed from bogan to bogan. A bouncer comes out and announces to cut that shit out or the cops will end the night. Everyone cheers and yells at the bouncer. Hilarious.
Two rappers called The Literaries were playing when I arrived. I couldn’t find anything online about them and they weren’t listed as supports so it was a surprise to see how good they were. It was their first time here in Australia so I’m guessing Bunbury wasn’t exactly what they were expecting. In fact it would be safe to assume none of the nights performers expected the first stop to be in a small town held up in a shitty old hotel. Still, they all went off and played like it was any other gig.
Sen dog started his new album with the help of The Literarie’s but no one there has really heard any of it, the crowd was not into the music. How can you be when it’s all new, you’re jumping around with no idea where the beat is going. He stops with the universal cutting action to the throat and kicks off what is now one of the coolest concerts at the prince ever. The familiar beat to Insane in the Brain starts crankin’ Crowd is jumping; people are acting as black as possible. It’s followed by Hits from the Bong, Rock Superstar and several other hits from Cypress Hill’s awesome catalogue. I was right up front for it all about a meter away from them, how fucking cool for me. He’s surprisingly small too, thought he would have been a big nut. After his set I thought I’d better do the groupie thing since I will most likely never get another opportunity. So I walk up and give him what can only be described as the most white boy hand shake ever.
Satisfied with everything I only caught half of Kottonmouth Kings and bailed around 10:40 because I didn’t want to feel like shit at work the next day. Not that it would have mattered since I made a berrocca looking hamburger mix in the sink. If you look at the poster of the band you will see six guys in the group. From what I saw, only three contributed to the making of sound and the two other weird looking guys jumped around on stage doing a lot of strange shit.
I got a few vids of the night I’ll put up when my IT homies figure out how to fix some bugs with them.
Ratings TimeI’m a bit torn with the score on this for several reasons. Firstly the event wasn’t a sell out, far from it, which meant the mosh was no where near full. Which also meant the crowd wasn’t reacting as well as expected. But, I was a meter away from Sen Dog, part of the hugely famous band Cypress Hill, and another kick ass international band the Kottonmouth Kings. Most likely never have another opportunity to be so close to these guys so half of me is saying fark yes 6/6!!!11 but paying $60 for a half empty venue and not the crowd support you would expect I would be going 2/6. So going halfway, even though to me it was fucking awesome I’ll give it a:
