Shake, rattle and roll to the finest 60s sights and sounds at Concorde2’s rock’n’roll fest, featuring a rare performance from Tokyo’s all-girl garage trio of Tarantino fame, The 5,6,7,8’s.
Concorde2 is travelling back in time for one night only this Friday, constructing the perfect ‘cult 60s dance party’ out of four swinging period bands,tiki interiors, 60s grindhouse B-movies projected on five screens across the venue as well as go-go dancers and podiums, all topped off with ‘live’ broadcast DJ sets spinning 50s and 60s rock’n’roll on a gigantic vintage TV set.
As well as video-jockey Karl Kaos at the helm of the 60s visual dross, and London’s Buzzsaw Joint DJs The Big Itch and Dee-jay Fritz on decks, the quadruple line-up of live bands crystallise 60s rock’n’roll with aplomb, and their own idiosyncratic take on the period’s swinging, jiving grooves.
Most notable are the Tokyo trio of rockabilly chicks, as seen on Tarantino’s Kill Bill (preceding its mass samurai sword slaughter). The legend goes that the director, running late for a flight home from Tokyo, heard the CD in a clothing store and paid its manager double the retail price for his copy.
A few hundred gory on-screen deaths and Carlsberg adverts later and their cover of 50s hit ‘Woo Hoo’ became ubiquitous, with its lightning-paced surf jangle and ear-plaguing ‘woo’ hook. Little else is written on the Japanese trio, other than that they’ve been showing their passion for period grooves since ’86 and that this marks their second ever performance in the UK. Could you resist the opportunity?
If the Japanese accents of those go-go girls seems like superfluous novelty to your rock’n’roll palate, it’s nothing compared to MFC Chicken (named after the Holloway Road fried chicken outlet), whose own brand of 50s & 60s sounds marry sax-heavy riffing with fast food-themed lyrical content, sung with Elvis-esque gusto.
But that’s nothing compared to the thigh-pumping verve of King Salami and his Cumberland Three, whose furious rock’n’rolling frequently attracts stage invaders, like delinquent flies to their twisting and shouting rhythm and blues.
Also featuring The Coyote Men at this beach-side surf/rockabilly bonanza – you’d have to be some kind of square nanny to miss it.
£13 adv + BF or £15 on the door, 18+, 21:00-04:00
See www.concorde2.co.uk
