It was more than six years ago and I can’t quite believe that as I type it…
I was shouldered by a man stutter-step-undulating across the floor of the Knights of Columbus Lounge, Blowout 2006, his face obscured by a spherical, full-headed Eyeball-mask.
And there was Child Bite – on the floor/stage, like three human lightning rods, three spark-spurting rusty tumble dryers spitting fiery sock-balls in metallic spasms, three pinball machines tipping over onto chaos-facilitating ball-bearings spilled across the beer-soaked linoleum…
…there were guitars and keyboards and flashing lights and lots of shamanistic shouts. Proto-Vision Crimes! Drums. Hooks. Three minute freak-outs with two breaths between each set.
Something like that… But sort of nothing like “punk,” per-se… Born of the spirit, I suppose, that ethos in mutating traditional forms, be it pop? be it heavy-metal? be it post-punk-via-synth-pop, more-so? It was mangy and valiant and wild and …ya couldn’t take your ears-off-of-it.
Something like that… Long story short: I’ve always had a predilection towards this Detroit project – fronted/sustained by graphic artist/keyboardist/singer Shawn Knight -and bolstered by bassist Sean Clancy, guitarist Brandon Sczomak and drummer Ben Moore.
And that’s all something like me taking a long time to say that Child Bite reached back to their punk-roots for a forthcoming special (highly limited) 7″ single –
– a second edition in the American Hardcore Tribute series – this time featuring notable local noise-rock/punk-pop/metal-manglers – Golden Torso, Old Gods and Hellmouth!
That’s all something like me taking a long, crazy time to say that – you can only hear their special covers of Dead Kennedys and Melvins tunes by
a.) showing up to Small’s on October 25th…
b.) grabbing a 7″ vinyl copy of your own…
c.) feebly imagining it in your own brain and coming up, likely, short of the genuine-article.
Further fun/nostalgic/vital – Viewing:
This article appears in Oct 10-16, 2012.
