20/3/2008 - Part 1. Disarm & Dead Identities @ the Purple Turtle

Subject	20th March - Part 1: Disarm & Dead Identities @ the Purple Turtle
PostedDate	3/20/2008
	Back to the Purple Turtle for the second night running - this time for a far more rock ’n’ roll night.  This is the London date of the ’Awesomesauce’ tour presented by Pure Rawk and Riot Promotions - people who regularly put on bands I want to see.  Unfortunately, I don’t arrive in time to see the only two of the five bands on the bill I haven’t already seen.  This is a shame as I’m told the first band on the bill were good fun and had a song called ’Vampyre Trousers’ - almost worth the price of admission just for that song title! I shall have to make more of an effort to catch Evil Scarecrow next time... There is a good crowd of the ’usual suspects’ and more by the time Dead Identities take to the stage. They provide their usual set of fired up Ramones influenced punk tunes and help get the crowd fired up for the following acts. They are quite different from the far more mainstream metal sound of the previous band Illuminatus who finished their set just as I got to the venue. Dead Identities style matches very well with the following act though. Disarm turn in a strong performance as usual with their glam tinged punk rock racket. They are more tuneful than your average punk band, and shapes are thrown, poses are pulled, and eyeliner is worn. This band always put on a powerful performance, and it’s easy to see why they were winners at the recent Pure Rawk Awards. The crowd is suitably entertained in preparation for something very different to end the evening - all the way from Germany. See Part 2... The Purple Turtle is one of my favourite music venues, but tonight it loses points on two counts: For the first time I’ve seen at this venue, they have one of those really annoying toilet attendants. Why?  Do they think we are incapable of washing our own hands? (although it doesn’t help that the hand drier is often out of action)  These unneccessary and inappropriate attendants just piss people off, and guys who would normally wash their hands just rush out quickly without bothering just to escape these creepy guys.  The second really annoying thing - they ran out of Newcastle Brown Ale. This really isn’t good enough! Maybe I shouldn’t have drunk so much of it last night...  Still, even these two annoyances can’t stop the fun and expectations are high for the headline act....