Full Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin line-up revealed - State.ie
Just bought myself a weekend ticket for this - don’t know (yet) if I’ll have company, cos it’s not until May and it was an impulse decision. A decision based on two bands, one Irish and one international, out of an impressive list (most of which I’m under-familiar with): Wounds, and Iceage.
Two competing visions of punk, you could say: one a hardcore band aurally reminiscent to me of the chaotic hardcore of the early 90s, but apparently derived through the thrash-y angsts of 00s ‘Moshspace’ groups, the other a paradoxically fresh- but retro-sounding punk band crossing the gap between the morbid post-punk of the early 80s and the fuzzy abandon of modern lo-fi guitar rock (e.g. Male Bonding, only edgier). That one has just been kicking around the Dublin scene - and some excursions abroad to the UK at least, I think - for a while trying to record an album in between serious mishaps, while the other has had their debut LP catapulted into prominence all the way across the Atlantic from Denmark to the readers of Pitchfork (who are of course global, too), I’d like to say is irrelevant if only because I’m seeking to avoid parochial judgements of quality. As it is, I hope neither pull out, because I’m looking to replicate my singular live experience of the former (supporting Joe Lally with more well-known Irish metallers Adebisi Shank), and constructing a fuller interpretation of the latter’s album, New Brigade.
