{"id":24428,"date":"2024-03-06T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=24428"},"modified":"2024-03-04T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T13:58:07","slug":"christmas-deathtraps-system-reset-the-setbacks-the-cab-newport-29th-february-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=24428","title":{"rendered":"Christmas\/Deathtraps\/System Reset\/The Setbacks \u2013 The Cab, Newport \u2013 29th<\/sup> February 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s almost a year since I first set foot in The Cab, and it\u2019s wonderful to see the team behind the place going from strength to strength and keeping the scene alive, it\u2019s also a staggering 10 years since Christmas frontman Max Motherfucker first brought his band of deathpunk renegades over from Germany to play south Wales, as he is quick to remind us during his band\u2019s headline set here tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where the hell does the time go eh? That\u2019s why it\u2019s perhaps always best to \u201clive in the moment\u201d as you\u2019ll never know what\u2019s around the corner. You might just be putting on your biggest show ever when Sick Of It All play for you this spring, or you might be just about to celebrate 15 years together as a band. Yup it\u2019s all about the here and now folks and tonight is like a mini-Slugfest, but on tour, as four bands who have all played at south Wales\u2019s finest DIY free festival share a stage at Newport\u2019s finest DIY punk rock venue. Four bands, \u00a36 entrance fee\u2026bosh! How\u2019s that for living in the now?<\/p>\n\n\n

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Kicking things off are The Setbacks from Bath and the five-piece fair rattle through their set finishing off with a riotous rendition of \u2018Lulu\u2019s Leaving\u2019.\u00a0 The healthy-sized crowd loving every minute of tonight\u2019s starter for ten and I must admit it had been way too long since I last saw them live. Tidy!<\/p>\n\n\n

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That can\u2019t be said of System Reset, however, as this popular combo seems to pop up wherever there\u2019s a punk rock show occurring, and it shows in just how slick an outfit they have become. Tracks like opener \u2018March\u2019, \u2018Anxiety\u2019 and (still my favourite track by the band) \u2018Fail Safe\u2019 positively bounce along, containing almost as much spring in their step as frontman Stan, who just doesn\u2019t stop. \u2018Big Business\u2019 is always how a Reset show ends and it\u2019s a middle finger to the corporate world we all live in. Talking of which, rumour has it that Sutton and Shov from the Reset have got the original Trigger McPoopshute line up back together for one last hurrah! Perhaps a co-headline tour with Terry & The Idiots awaits, or maybe it\u2019ll be Rebellion 2025?<\/p>\n\n\n

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A band that I feel have long since warranted a slot at Rebellion are Newport\u2019s Deathtraps. Now a full year into being a quartet the band are currently recording album number five, and if tonight is anything to go by it\u2019s going to be their most ferocious slab of wax yet. \u2018Red Eyes And Black Kisses\u2019, Too Much is Never Enough\u2019 and \u2018Cool Kids\u2019 are all present and correct from the old trio days but it\u2019s the new cuts like (please note I may have these titles slightly incorrect) \u2018You\u2019re The One\u2019 and \u2018Right Thing\u2019 that positively hammer home why Deathtraps in this new expanded format truly are a mighty force to be reckoned with.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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It’s going to take a special kind of band to top the sonic fury of Deathtraps and thankfully Christmas (playing on a leap year day too, just to totally mess with my OCD mind) are just that band. Frontman Max has his shirt off and is in our faces before \u2018Wolfpack\u2019 has even had a chance to howl and throughout the band\u2019s 20 odd song set he\u2019s constantly in and out of the crowd cajoling those brave enough to stand in front of him to sing along with the band\u2019s incendiary back catalogue. He\u2019s such a blur of energy that even the Cab\u2019s normally Tonka truck strong vocal PA (this is a set up that withstood Clobber and Conservative Military Image on the same bill remember) gives up the ghost just ahead of \u2018Appetite for Selfdestruction\u2019 and with a shorter microphone cable attached and Max finally partially tethered the likes of \u2018Hot Nights in Saint Vandal\u2019 \u2018Nothing But  A Handjob\u2019 and the immense \u2018Candy Me\u2019 all sound like firecrackers in the head. There\u2019s just enough time for a run through of Turbonegro\u2019s \u2018Ride With Us\u2019 before \u2018Go Hard or Go Home\u2019 sends me out into the cold night air loaded up on band merch, recognising the fact that any group that has driven for 15 hours and passed through 6 countries to get to play for you fully deserves our support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOh I wish it could be Christmas every day\u2026..\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s almost a year since I first set foot in The Cab, and it\u2019s wonderful to see the team behind the place going from strength to strength and keeping the scene alive, it\u2019s also a staggering 10 years since Christmas frontman Max Motherfucker first brought his band of deathpunk renegades over from Germany to play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1787,1710,1681,1680,1701,1833],"class_list":["post-24428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-review","tag-its-a-revolution","tag-rpm-online","tag-rpmnews1","tag-rpmonline","tag-tcb","tag-tourlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24434,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24428\/revisions\/24434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}