I Just Read About That…

[ATTENDED: February 18, 2024] YDI

I couldn’t make the show last night, but there was no way I was missing tonight’s show.

I really didn’t know anything about YDI before this show.

I still don’t really know that much about them.  There’s very little information about the band at all.

It’s not even clear who the band members were (in one article I only saw first names).   But the summary is that in 1983 Y.D.I. (pronounced: Why-die) put out a 7” EP “A Place In The Sun” (a blistering nine-track blast of american-hardcore fury). Two years later, the band had changed to a more filthy, metallic, damaged punk. The “Black Dust” (a concoction of PCP, heroin and formaldehyde) 12”- LP in 1985 was YDIs’ final recording.

What happened between then and now isn’t exactly clear.  There’s a show here and there in 2008, 2014 and now 2024.

For this show I’m not even sure which players were in the original band aside from singer Jackal.  No one was introduced.

Jackal came out looking psychotic and scary with a homemade Freddy Kreuger glove as he sang songs like “I Killed My Family,”

After a few songs, he took the glove off and was a bit more interactive with the crowd.

Their songs were fast and furious.

The guitarist (with a great wild beard) was pretty funny, but the drummer was really funny–even making a joke about how they were “sweating to the oldies.”

They had a pretty classic hardcore sound with a rumbling bass.  The vocals were mostly screamed and pretty inaudible.

I was bummed that the setlist was on the wall across the stage because I couldn’t read it from that far.

I don’t know how many songs they played or which songs they played.  The set was about 25 minutes, and that was long enough for me.