Comments on: Boredoms

By: Russ L

Russ L — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:17:07 +0000

‘Fuck All But We’

That sounds more Yampy than Engrish to me.

By: King of the Heath

King of the Heath — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:59:34 +0000

Just to clarify – Boredoms head honcho (Eye) was a punk in the early 1980’s, and was particularly enamoured of English punk – especially the band Disorder (from Bristol)…
If you look at Boredoms record covers, you will see many homages to Disorder on the sleeves (which are drawn by Eye) in terms of text and graphics…
The Boredoms name is certainly a reference to the ‘Spiral Scratch’ song…

The whole ‘Japanese English’ crossover was a source of fond amusement in the hardcore thrash punk scene in the 1980’s. In fact, the ‘Disgrace to the Corpse of Sid’ album by Sore Throat (a band that have Birmingham links) had a track-listing where very song (all 101 of them) had a ‘Japanese English’ title – choice examples include ‘Slam of Buttocks’, ‘Power of Nuclear Kill Brain’, ‘Let’s Go Buckingham Kill Queen’, ‘Kamikaze System Hatred’, ‘Vomit on Rules Belong to Them’, ‘Raise Ghost McClaren’ and ‘Fuck All but We’…

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:03:56 +0000

Gutted I’m missing them on the current tour. They play my old stomping ground of Cardiff tomorrow night – I’m going to send a link to your review to my likeminded friends right now…

By: Gavin Burrows

Gavin Burrows — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:07:54 +0000

I remember gushing about the Boredoms in the old print version of Lucid Frenzy. One thing which you sort of echo here is that it’s very much a live thing, the gigs are much more like ‘happenings’ (man) than entertainment. Partly for that reason I’ve never really checked them out on record, tho’ others have told me I’m missing out.

One thing tho’, when you say “that connection with British punk sounds a little tenuous, though not unrealistic, to me”… well, I can see where you’re coming from. People call metronomic music boring, but what’s boring after five minutes repetition becomes mesmerising after fifteen and absolutely brain-melting after fifty. But the early Boredoms were a kind of cacophanous junkyard punk band, so in those days the Buzzcocks connection made more sense.

Plus the Buzzcock’s Boredom has the famous one-note anti-guitar-solo on it. (They were famously trying to capture boredom by being boring, or at least that’s what they told everybody!)

By: Russ L

Russ L — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:49:49 +0000

“Six strings per neck on seven necks… 36 pieces of vibrating wire”

Give it a minute, let it sink in…

By: Dave Shelton

Dave Shelton — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:33:35 +0000

“un-miced hollering” had me confused for a second there as I pronounced it in my head with a soft c…

By: monocat

monocat — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:49:08 +0000

jealous…