Okay, well I think I'll

Okay, well I think I'll post a review of the Mindless Self Indulgence (hereafter referred to as MSI) show I saw at Tek World last night.

Arriving at around 8:45 for a show that started at 8:00. lots of the typical Tek World crowd around outside, smoking and standing around looking goth. I've never actually been inside Tek World before, and well, it really... sucks. As soon as you walk in there's a room filled with CDs and crappy posters and stickers and patches for you to buy, all overpriced. The tickets were $15 since it was a popular band, but man, that's still high for such a crappy venue. (Pandamonium was never over $7/show.) But so we get inside and I guess the opening band has finished and they're setting up for whoever is next to play (3 bands total, I think.) I walk around and stare at all the goth/punk/other kiddies. Wow, I mean... they're trying way too hard. I guess they're trying to make up for the fact that they're about 5 years too late for the whole goth thing. Not to mention the drunk rednecks, woohoo!

ANYWAY! the next band to play (I can't remember their name) kinda sucked. No, they DID suck. It's bad when the best mosh pit your band can start is with someone else's song (cover of a TATU song.) And some drugged up guy who looked like an Abercrombie model started a fight with anyone who looked at him, I helped people hold him back a few times until he got kicked out. That kind of sucked.

SO now the second band is done, everyone is milling around waiting for MSI to show up. Lots of cigarette smoke, nothing interesting happening. I get right up to the front of the crowd area for the show. Oh, they're playing the worst music ever through the PA, I mean it SUCKED. ANyway, the lights go off and MSI gets on stage and the crowd just SURGES forward and it's like... wow. I'm wearing a hoodie in here, big mistake, since everyone is so squashed together. You seriously can't move. And all these short girls are in between really tall people, I don't see how they can breathe. The band plays, and honestly they aren't too bad for what they are. The singer is better than some and he likes to take off clothes... eh, not for me, but the goth girls seemed to enjoy it. And the guitarist was like a hardcore skinhead. The drummer REALLY sucks, though, she's only hitting one drum at a time and it sounds like the rest of the drums are sampled. She's not even good looking. ;) Whatever, I guess they need a drummer on stage. I get knocked over when the crowd sways to one side and trampled, WOOHOO HARDCORE, but other than that it was pretty uneventful. Then they finish and the lights go up and my group leaves.

So lets see... back to the hoodie, I am SOAKING WET with my sweat (and I'm sure other people's, as well...) and when I take the hoodie off you can't tell that I'm wet because my whole shirt is soaked. Gross. And my jeans are halfway soaked with the floor slop. Even more gross. But whatever, I guess that's Tek World for you.

Overall it was a pretty fun experience. The music wasn't as bad as I was expecting, the venue sucked but I already knew that. Wasn't worth the $15, in my opinion, but hey, just stick your hands in your hoodie pocket and walk right through the door like you've got a wristband and no-one will check. ;)

--Fiend