The Moose Hall rocked with the sound of high volume punk on Sunday, Oct. 2.
There was a surprisingly good crowd out on a dreary Sunday night, as well there should have been for SNFU.
But the other bands on the bill made for an exciting night of punk rock.
While I just missed No More Moments, I arrived in time for Medicine Hat punk/ metal band Western Death, who have just released a new split record with Calgary’s Reckless Heroes.
So they played the songs from that, which, were full of metal fuelled riffs, hot guitar solos and growling vocals similar to bands like Black Flag.
In addition to the new record and a couple songs from their debut, self titled CD, they also played some brand new songs.
Other than SNFU, I really wanted to see Vancouver punk rock band the Jolts, who were as electrifying as their name suggests and was not disappointed.
They played an array of songs from all of their albums, which had a lot of rock and roll influences especially their latest CD “ No Paradoxes,”as well as a strong Ramones influence. They even played a cover of the Rolling Stones “It’s Only Rock and Roll” to end their set.
SNFU were on fire.
The tight punk rock icons started off with a hard rocking instrumental before being joined by frontman, Chi Pig, who was wandering through the exuberant audience in his usual dress and wearing a pig’s ear hat, which he took off before taking the stage.
They played a solid set of familiar songs from throughout their career including “Broken Toy,” “ Time to Buy a Futon,” especially the first three albums. Bassist Dave Bacon, who had an artificial leg sat on a stool throughout the set, but it didn’t stop him or the band from tearing things up. Chi Pig added a few hats, masks and props throughout the set including a pair of glittering Devil horns for “ the Devil’s Voice.”
About 50 punks moshed as they were slipping and sliding across the floor, picking up their fellows as they fell, until one punk found a mop and cleaned the floor. Chi Pig cursed out one loogan, who was escorted from the premises by some of the other punks. But he returned shortly. Other than that, everyone was having a great time.
The band even added a few bars of a punk rock version of the Knack’s early ’80s hit “My Sharona.” As a special treat, they had a couple members of the Raygun Cowboys in hand to handle merch sales, but brought one of them up to play a guitar solo as the band played on, the lead guitarist handed off his guitar mid song for him to solo and shout out a chorus on an extended jam on “Cannibal Cafe,” as the crowd shouted along with one of the band’s most popular songs.
They were called back for an encore of “ She’s Not on the Menu.”
