[POSTPONED: March 18, 2020] God Is My Co-Pilot / The HIRS Collective / Eat
Back in the 1990s I was fascinated by the queercore band God Is My Co-Pilot. I had a couple of their records and thought they were pretty cool.
They fell off of my radar, and with good reason as they pretty much stopped making music by the end of the 90s. So I was shocked–shocked, I tell you!–to see that they were performing at Boot & Saddle.
If I hadn’t had a show planned for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, I would have absolutely gone to check them out. So this show has been cancelled as well, but heck, maybe they will reschedule and I’ll certainly come, especially of The HIRS Collective opens.
I had seen The HIRS Collective (then called +HIRS+) open for Screaming Females and they were like nothing I’d seen before. I wrote:
They turned on their gear and the hum was ominously loud. The beats began (from the singer’s ipod or phone) and the guitarist played a loud pummeling wall of fast heavy punk. The singer screamed unintelligible lyrics. And the two of them stomped around the stage in an almost childlike cathartic approximation of two people in a mosh pit. They crashed into each other. The singer seemed like they might fall over or off the stage.
And 30 seconds later it was over.
Then they did it again. And they were both in perfect sync–stopping abruptly each time right as the song ended.
Their whole set was 15 minutes. It was incredible. I would absolutely see them again.
I don’t know anything about the band Eat, but given these two other bands, I’ll bet they are similarly chaotic and interesting. Well, looking them up I see that they are a UK band that was active in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They were quite popular in the UK but never made it outside of the country. They reformed in 2014. I may have to give them a listen.
I hope they all come back around again.
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