If you ask your Indio-bound buddies which band delivered The Set Of Saturday and they answer with anyone other than !!!, we can explain: They weren’t at the Mojave tent at approximately 6:40PM, when the dance-punk octet brought fire to the desert. Nic Offer’s impossibly short shorts in full effect, the manic frontman-of-the-year stretched and smirked, snarling “Oh you guys have been waiting for THIS, haven’t you?” — met with the tent’s deafening assent. Nodding to the noise, Offer offered: “Yeah, us too.” With that, the raunchy rocker launched into his arm-flailing convulsions and patented pelvic thrusts as the band cranked a relentless “All My Heroes Are Weirdos.”
We haven’t checked Chk Chk Chk since last summer’s Øya Festivalen in Oslo, prior to the release of their return-to-form funk-slammer Myth Takes. But the classics are still just that; “Pardon My Freedom” was second on deck, Nic acting out each “Like I give a fuck” as disparate characters (defiant punk terrorist with one pass, effeminately obstinate Valley girl the next). “Heart Of Hearts” brought a treat for the myth takers with vocalist Shannon Funchess reprising her studio vocal for the craziest crowd we’ve seen yet.
“Yadnus,” “Must Be The Moon,” non-stop, straight killer. We ran into our old friend Naeem Juwan (a.k.a. Spank Rock) later in the night, and he concurred with the crowd: “I’ve watched ‘em a lot lately, and that was the best !!! show I’ve ever seen.” (More from our night with Spank Rock TK.) Between hopelessly imitating Nic’s moves (not a pretty sight), we took around 300 pictures, the best of which you’ll find after the jump.
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!!! are a killer live band. Unfortunately, the only time I ever saw them, they were opening for Modest Mouse the first time I saw Modest Mouse, and I was not really in the mood to sit through an hour and forty-five minute opening set, but nonetheless, they have skill.
Among other things, I want the bass player’s T-shirt.
the bass player is JESUS ALMIGHTY CHRIST
I second that motion: Nic O. for frontman of the year.
Flash in the pan, substance-free “dance” acts own all.
Mohave? Small typo I believe, or translating for the non-Spanish speakers.
Can´t wait to see them live. Their drumer looks like Brett Favre.
John Pugh has quit !!!. You can hear his last interview and the full live set from the !!! show at Studio B in Brooklyn over at http://www.viva-radio.com/vivalive