{"id":4219,"date":"2019-02-28T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=4219"},"modified":"2019-02-25T09:14:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T09:14:17","slug":"christmas-trigger-mcpoopshute-deathtraps-system-reset-abertillery-dolls-house-24th-february-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=4219","title":{"rendered":"Christmas\/Trigger McPoopshute\/Deathtraps\/System Reset – Abertillery, Dolls House – 24th February 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four bands, free admission and it\u2019s Fraser Von Deathtrap\u2019s 24th<\/sup> birthday\u2026 again! What more could you want from a Saturday night in your old home town?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Well not a lot really, as System Reset, who are late additions to tonight\u2019s bill, open up proceedings almost as soon as I enter the venue, and with a pint of something cold and wet in my hand we\u2019re straight into a 30 minute set of melodic hardcore punk music drawn from their RPM approved EP\/mini album \u2018Epidemic\u2019.\u00a0 With two of Trigger McPoopshute within their ranks you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking System Reset might be just more of the same backdoor rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, but no, this quartet have a sound firmly rooted in the spirit of the skate park and tracks like \u2018Feminazi\u2019\u2019, \u2018Anxiety\u2019 and set closer \u2018PTSD\u2019 could all have featured on the \u2018Punk-O-Rama\u2019 compilation series, something that should see them playing with the big boys at a venue near you very soon.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A couple of years on from their Dolls House debut the Deathtraps of 2019 are a much different beast to the one I first witnessed. Kickstarting proceedings with the lead track from their stonking \u2018Gotta Get Some\u2019 album, \u2018Automatic Thrill\u2019 sounds not so much like a direct lift from Gluecifer as a song spawned from a contract inked with Lucifer himself, and if newbie \u2018Fuck The Cool Kids\u2019 is anything to go by then Deathtraps really do have all the best songs just waiting to be unleashed on us. Taking us right back to the early shows though \u2018Too Fast To Last\u2019, and \u2018Another Great Day\u2019 sound almost reborn, and even if the suitably refreshed birthday boy forgets his basslines during \u2018Hellbound\u2019 it\u2019s all dealt with in the flick of a wrist. Closing with the aptly titled \u2018Fucked Up And Furious\u2019 a song that does exactly what it says on the tin Deathtraps make a whole host new friends here tonight and you best make sure you catch them opening for The Hip Priests at various shows this spring.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>With Trigger having been (by their standards at least) a bit quiet recently following the impromptu departure of Pix from behind the kit, it appears to have been their long overdue addition to the line up of this year\u2019s Rebellion Festival that\u2019s given Abertillery\u2019s filthiest sons the much needed impetus to get back onstage, and most importantly write some new material. Bam from System Reset is the man they\u2019ve recruited to drop his sticks during old faves like \u2018Headfuck\u2019, \u2018Race Card\u2019 and the fan requested \u2018American Manc\u2019 plus \u2018Fish Or Bird\u2019 once again sees the audience having their very own Only Connect moment.\u00a0 Of the aforementioned new tracks you can take your pick from \u2018Wank Palace\u2019, \u2018Self Righteous\u2019 and \u2018Shitfinger\u2019 as to which one offends you most… but I can\u2019t help smiling, no, laughing, at each of them. Sounding more like the bastard sons of Venom and The Macc Lads than ever before Trigger McPoopshute are on a mission to make life seem a little bit brighter, because as their set closing dedication to some recently lost friends (immediately before \u2018Charity Snatch\u2019) proves, for some of us it can be all over far too quickly.<\/p>\n

Returning to the Dolls House for (what if my memory serves me correctly is) the fourth time, German satanic punkers Christmas are back in the UK promoting their white-hot 3rd<\/sup> album \u2018Scum As You Are\u2019 and I for one was not going to miss this. Kicking things off with the opening one-two salvo from said album – \u2018Army of Losers\u2019 and \u2018The Old Man Tells\u2019 – the band literally explodes in my face via this 3 minute (plastic) bomb of punk rock, before I\u2019m instantly whisked right back to 2014 via the title track from their ferocious \u2018Appetite For Selfdestruction\u2019 debut. Granted only frontman Max Motherfucker remains from that line up but as the band has evolved and shed personnel, I feel it has only made them a leaner, hungrier beast, one that can write songs as tight and exciting as \u2018You Bore Me\u2019, \u2018Good Times, High Fives\u2019 and the Motorheadtastic \u2018Sex Sells\u2019 all of which are aired here tonight.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018Skate All Night\u2019, \u2018Cracksong\u2019 and \u2018Moonshine Love\u2019 all remain in the set from the band\u2019s perhaps overlooked \u2018Lose Your Illusion\u2019 sophomore album whilst \u2018No More Tears\u2019, \u2018Nothing But A Handjob\u2019 and \u2018Wolfpack\u2019 from the aforementioned debut all take me back in fiery fashion to why I fell in love with the band in the first place.<\/p>\n

The last time I saw Max live was on the massive Empire Ballroom stage at Rebellion fronting Reagan Youth where he couldn\u2019t really practice his full contact audience participation routine, here tonight however he more than makes up for this, cajoling complete strangers into singing along to songs they have never heard before whilst scaring the diehards into not getting the lyrics wrong as his microphone is promptly shared around the audience front row like a punk rock hot potato. This is what makes Christmas so special and I guess its also why Max comes back to the Dolls House time and time again. Special mention too to the band\u2019s stand-in drummer Jan who after just two rehearsals turns in a faultless performance hammering home each and every track like he\u2019d been on the road with the band for months.<\/p>\n

Nothing beats the true punk rock spirit of Christmas I tell ya\u2026 nothing.<\/p>\n

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

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