Tomahawk

Dälek

11th March 2002 London Astoria

Dälek were not too dissimilar to TechnoAnimal who I saw supporting Fantômas last year. Dälek are a 3 piece hip hop band. One singer, one on turntables, and one on sampler. The music is a kind of heavy hip hop. It's very slow paced with a hard proper urban feel to it, i.e. not the sort of hip hop you hear on the radio, unfortunately! I'm not sure who else does this sort of thing so kind of hard to describe. Maybe a bit like DJ Shadow. During the last song someone was dancing on stage wearing a gimp mask, could've been Mike Patton.

Tomahawk came on wearing police uniforms, continuing rumours Mike Patton secretly wants to be a police officer ;) This time the uniforms were more country hick cop, than super cool SWAT! Mike wore blue shirt with tie, the other 3 wore beige shirts with ties.

The set list was something along the lines :

Encore

After "Sir Yes Sir", Mike asked us if we thought the security sucked, and demanded a round of applause cos they were really bad and had kept him waiting or something! Mike pointed to the upstairs bar, and said he'd buy as all shots in the Flamingo Bar, in kind of jokingly taking the piss out of the name way. Before launching into the next song the word "GAY" flashed briefly on the wall behind him. (The London Astoria hosts gay nights once a month, imaginatively called GAY)

Before "Point and Click" Mike asked us we wanted to fuck. While putting on a rubber glove. He then kept on shouting at a member of the audience "You wanna fuck me teabag". He did this for a while before brandishing a paddle, he then got a security guard to bend over, and started to spank him with it, much to the amusement of the other security guards and the audience!

In the gap after "Point and Click", I was telling my mate how Mike seemed to be enjoying himself, and how the gig was more like a Faith No More gig on the "AngelDust", or "King For A Day..." tours than Fantômas or Mr. Bungle. During "Laredo" Mike emphasised this point by flopping out his penis and pissing on the front row, * nice, glad I was near the back! After they walked off stage the word "GAY" started flashing on the back wall again.

All in all it was good gig. The band was tight, and as I said above, Mike seemed to be enjoying himself, but the other band members were just content to stand there and do there parts. Enjoyment wise it was not as good Mr. Bungle or Fantômas last time they played here, but on a par with a good "Faith No More" gig, but better than the one I saw in November 97.

Ipecac Press Statement

"Firstly, It was not real urine or a real penis. Secondly, Mike Patton was not arrested. Thirdly, it can all be blamed on nu metal. Really!"

This is apparently reference to a meeting due to the long rumoured Faith No More tribute album, and even a Faith No More reunion for a Nu Metal tour!!!!.

"Attending the meeting were potential tour participants, Chino (Deftones), Brandon (Incubus), Fred (Limp Bizkit), Coby (Papa Roach), Joey (Slipknot) and Gavin (Bush) along with Mike Patton and Bill Gould (Faith No More),"

"As Patton left the venue a member of the Astoria security crew grabbed him and told him to get his 'skinny little ass back in the meeting and make it happen!'.

(That may explain why Mike sarcastically demanded a round of applause for the security guards during the gig.)

"Before taking the stage Tomahawk bandmates Kevin Rutmanis and Duane Denison lightened Mike's dark mood by showing him the toys they purchased earlier in one of London's finest fetish stores.

"One of the items was a rubber dildo that squirts water. Mike decided that this would be the perfect prank to get even with the nu metal lovin' hooligan security guard."

More info is available from Kerrang's web page or from DotMusic.com


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