{"id":4772,"date":"2019-04-06T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2019-04-06T09:14:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T09:14:35","slug":"electric-eel-shock-deathtraps-cardiff-the-moon-28th-march-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=4772","title":{"rendered":"Electric Eel Shock\/Deathtraps \u2013 Cardiff, The Moon \u2013 28th March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Newport\u2019s Deathtraps seem to be popping up all over the place at the moment, and if they keep this rate of gigs up I\u2019ll have seen them more than Accept before the Summer is out. Its all very positive stuff for the band though as even just a short month on from my last review of them right here on RPM they\u2019ve already added a thundering new track to their setlist, its one all about covers bands called \u2018Play The One We Know’ perhaps their catchiest tune to date too. There\u2019s no fear of them getting that call here in The Moon though, No Siree, as this has to be one of the coolest underground venues I\u2019ve attended recently, and I can only but wonder how it\u2019s taken me so long to discover it. You see the punters here tonight are all craving original live music, and that\u2019s why the noisy bastards otherwise known as Veej, Fraser and Bullet Von Deathtrap are instantly doing brisk business over on their merch stall straight after they finish delivering their dirty deeds.<\/p>\n

I have to admit I knew very little about Electric Eel Shock before tonight, well nothing other than they used to be briefly signed to Gearhead (which is always a good sign) and that they come from Japan. In saying this it takes them approximately 20 seconds of opener \u2018Suicide Rock & Roll\u2019 to have me whooping it up down the front with the diehards (of which there are a considerable amount) as I\u2019m immediately won over by the band\u2019s infectious charm.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I mean how could you not instantly love a band that has within its ranks one Tomoharu Ito, a nude drummer (well nude albeit for a sock on his cock that he stretches out to aid his headbanging at appropriate times during their set) someone who also uses 4 drumsticks live \u2013 two in each hand. Add to this a bass player (Kazuto Maekawa) who is one of the coolest looking four stringers this side of Dee Dee Ramone and a singer (Akihito Morimoto) who also plays a Flying V (when he\u2019s not trying to eat it) like an in his prime Randy Rhodes. You put all of this in the mix and I\u2019m sure you will agree you have a mighty musical proposition at hand.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the organised chaos the band call songs that really add the icing on the garage rock cake though and with Akihito ironically boasting that in spite of the fact that it had been three years since the band last played Cardiff they had written two songs during that time, I can\u2019t help but chuckle at the band\u2019s self-deprecating humour whilst grooving along to tracks like \u2018So Much 80s\u2019, \u2018Red Devil\u2019 and \u2018Favourite No 9\u2019. Electric Eel Shock (like most of us here at RPM) certainly love their cheesy metal and there are a few times tonight where I can almost feel a human pyramid coming on amongst my RPM gig going amigos.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Keeping it short (which you must have to be to actually play The Moon and the celling is bloody low) but very sweet Electric Eel Shock leave us with the instant classic\u00a0 \u2018Metal Man\u2019 a track that brings back memories of when I first heard 44 Magnum\u2019s iconic \u2018Street Rock\u2019N Roller\u2019 album, and you ain\u2019t gonna see that reference in many reviews anytime soon that\u2019s for sure. Then again there really aren\u2019t very many bands out there like Electric Eel Shock, to miss them live really is a crime, one I\u2019m thankfully no longer guilty off.<\/p>\n

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

Newport\u2019s Deathtraps seem to be popping up all over the place at the moment, and if they keep this rate of gigs up I\u2019ll have seen them more than Accept before the Summer is out. Its all very positive stuff for the band though as even just a short month on from my last review […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[104,1551,1586],"class_list":["post-4772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-review","tag-deathtraps","tag-electric-eel-shock","tag-moon-club-cardiff","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772","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=4772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4863,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions\/4863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}