Outlaw bands on tour in Poland

           Poland is on the road of a great number of marvelous better world fighting bands tours this year. The Granda club in Łódź seems on the way to become a new CBGB from NYC, where a myth of punk rock has started in ’70. It’s enough mention dudes from Sweden, named Fredag den 13 – Friday 13. On a t-shit they deal at the end of the concert there’s a horribly terrified looking guy, with a head in his hand, surrounded by the great number of cards from a calendar, of which each one is obviously Friday 13. Indeed, sometimes we feel, as if each day was the Friday 13. Another time we had riot punk girls band from Drezno, Germany, name Kenny Kenny Oh Oh. They played with such a freshness, that I had an impression, that I’m witnessing born of this gender of music right now, as if I were in London 30 years ago. Some of those girls lives in Berlin. Vocalist told me, she works in a museum up there. They do different kind of jobs, so they can afford their international music travels. We exchanged thoughts in what regards actual political problems of the modern world. German bourgeois, that search to restrict the low regarding the immigrants for instance. Complex interests of leading groups of power in the Bundes Republic.            The great surprise was the arriving of the super famous group of already perfectly recognizable on world stage group Leftover Crack. The meaning of this band name is an oxymoron. It’s saying: the crack (powerful drag on base of cocaine), which is leftover, untaken, unwonted – a pure nonsense and impossibility have some crack, that nobody wants! On one of the CD cover of their production we can find an impressive image. We have two WTC NYC towers, all in fire, an airplane that’s approaching them, and a nice suite wearing businessman standing on a gas station. Out of the distributor is coming the pure fire. To get the symbolic of this picture well – let it be clear, the gas to run airplanes that crashed WTC was from the Persian Gulf, where our soldiers are making an economical reason war. It’s not the only reason, Leftover Crack has problems with low. They were unable to enter Canada, problems to get visa, to leave States. They even couldn’t perform in their home place in NYC, C squat on Lower East Side. For this very reason Scott Sturgeon, their front man, established a new group, Star Fucking Hipsters. Since then he can continue appearing in the place, where he lives. Scott is a real outlaw by the way. Such are lyrics of the great number of their songs. We never leave any innocent victim punished, without our angry vengeance in revenge, they say. Scott is almost 40, he deliberately invests his energy on stage in variation of gestures, that are perfectly elaborated, easy coming, yet loaded with message – reaching highs of the great spectacle skills in a spirit of (let me say) Moliere, célèbre French  17th century comedian, banded and known for his politically critical position him as well. Scott’s inspirations is “Bill and Ted excellent adventure” science fiction movie from ’80. They made a collage with young Keanu Rives and Sturgeon, standing next to him, with their friend, Angel, girl’s from California dog.            Another worth mentioning show gave us a hardcore band from Drezno, Germany. Light it up they call themselves. It’s an energetic and powerful hardcore playing, you don’t even have time to deliberate and appreciate the details of their skills as virtuosos. No shitting, those guys are real! The choreography of the frontman touches me. His psychotic, arms and legs all around twisting dance is being put in a rhythmical apology an overwhelming chaos, like a loving heart in a coffin on one of their t-shirts. They’re also in a considerable cooperation with design. I mention the vocalist’s tattoo. It’s some Chinese, or Korean child, in an enormous military hat, with a huge red star on it. Warsaw Pact against NATO never dies I would say. One of guitar players gives us a sample of his dancing capabilities of the German forests stone age warrior when another band, from Nebraska US is playing. Indeed, they were worth of such a celebration.             Bent Lie, another hardcore group – black clothed, all covered with nice tattoo, big guys from States were volcano of well directed rage. Huge guy on the microphone was transmitting his communicate in each of his corps move. In his every day’s life he delivers pizza. He says, it an easy job, that gives him no greater displeasure. He likes it. Guitarists impressed me with their technical skills. They were fast as an electroshock therapy. The drummer reminded me an Indian, with his long hairs. In fact his grandparents came US from Italy long time ago. He was from Lincoln, Nebraska, a state in the middle of the US. No mountains up there, all flat, only fields – like those in one of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies, where the guy try to escape from a plane, that searches to smash him. My interlocutor’s name’s Chino. He making some money out of t-shirt prints fabrication. He has been playing for last 10 years. In this very group for last 2. He tells me fantastic stories about adventures with caps, he had back in home. It’s not a legend, that USA is being more and more invigilated by the police this days. They are being send in helicopters, as some ancient plague, to localize and exterminate marihuana’s illegal plantations. Marihuana is legal in Colorado and Washington already. It’s becoming an important support for their local economy. States in the US are in a constant economical competition. Drugs increases Colorado State budget 2 million dollars in only one week after the legalization. Those states, that are neighbors of Colorado are fighting the situation. They becomes in debt. They puts cops around the state border, to stop their own citizens, coming back from shopping. You have two types of police in the US – federals, and states officers, continues the exciting relation Chino. Nonetheless the states won’t touch, you can still get basted by Feds. The Feds hunting territory is all the US. They travel the country under cover of an average man. They are quite undistinguishable. Quite only add for an outlaw can stay his own intuition. “I was sitting one day in front of my house, Chino says, waiting for one guy. Then a car came, and it stopped a few steps next to the place, where I was. Suddenly, as if they appeared from an underground, I’ve seen three other cars. They blocked the first’s back, and forehead bumper, and driver doors. The one clashed inside was done. Another time there was a party, he only heard about, Chino says. There were guns and weed plantation in the back of the house. The owner had only a small quarrel with his girlfriend by that time. She called Feds. The party was over. In Colorado you can plant couple of weed trees, my friend tells me. If you don’t do that, you can give your legal plant’s number limit of possession to someone else. So one can accumulate his agriculture expanse credit. Bent Life give benefit performances for poor family children. They support homeless people with dinners – in a Food Not Bomb good tradition. Their program is conscious. I witness an increasing number of fresh, excellent musicians, that not only give us a show, but also revels themselves reflective, with no fear to communicate it.