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| CASUALTIES - Cat Ashbee photo |
Rickshaw Theatre - April 11, 2013
NYC Casualties launched off with “My Blood,
My Life, Always Forward,” from their new LP Resistance.
Front man Jorge led the pandemonium provoking punx to move beyond the
barricades with songs from On The Front
Line, For The Punx, Diehards, and Underground Army albums from 1997
onwards.
Despite the fact that these streetpunks just released on metal label
Season of the Mist, there was no shortage of a charged mosh at this show.
Finishing off with ‘97 anthem "RIOT" and the words to “We Are All We Have
Tonight” inciting a sing-along that will ring true and in your head for
days to come.
Dayglo Abortions warmed up a Canadian
punks' heart and that stash hidden inside your studded
vest (?) ensured the venue floor was well topped up.
Photographer Cat Ashbee has been shooting
punk stalwarts in these parts for quite some time and she offers up her written report
for the show alongside!
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| DAYGLO ABORTIONS - Cat Ashbee photo |
New York City has been kind enough to lend us her punk sons, the
Casualties, for the night and Victoria has responded with a lethal dose of the
Canadian icons, the Dayglo Abortions.
If you are unaware of the band Casualties, just picture the absolute epitome of punk and then multiply that
number by "11. " The hair, the studs, the hardcore sound and the attitude on stage
give these boys their classic feel and have been doing so for their twenty-three years of
stomps, screams and high jumps.
If you are unfamiliar with the music, the
legacy and the imagery of The Dayglo Abortions, that big ball of warm light in
the sky is called the sun and welcome to the world that lies beyond the rock
you have been under."
- More Betty and Cat Ashbee
