To be honest, I wouldn't have thought, that the german Band from Kiel, named Smoke Blow are already going for 12 years. Somehow I missed out on them, thanks to their underground status - until now. So what... there is time enough to catch up with them. And that's what I'm doing tonight. The band has released so far eight albums, whereby the first two one's only came out on cassette in the States. 
Some of you might have seen the band  supporting the Toten Hosen last years on their tour. But it is, like I always use to say, a bit of a difference, to see an artist playing a short opener support set in a huge venue or a headliner gig in a rather intimate atmosphere, like here. I count aprox. 100 fans. And Smoke Blow's support comes also from Kiel and is named Tackleberry. 

those have just released their new album entitled ‚Reinventing Appetite For Destruction’. By the way, I heard, the band have adopted their name from a figure from the Men In Black movie. The smal stage here is obviously much too small for our frontman here, so he takes some of the audiance space as well, as nobody heads froont anyway at this point. And runs up and down like a nervoes tiger in a Zoo cage and screams his violent and aggressive messages into the air. Inbetween he does some announcements, and it seems too many of them, as one guy in the audiance starts shouting: "don't talk so much and keep on singing". I fear at this point that the situation gets outta hand with a major argument, but fortunately it doesn't in the end. He's also got a go on the elderly generation and their attitude, but their ain't that many people in here, feeling regarded to this, exept maybe me :-) 
By the way, the light in here is almost none existing, and I'm forced to use a flashlight for taking pics, which I honestly dislike, as it gives back wrong colours. But their is no way to get around that. (Also the filmed clips I had to tune lighter afterwards, otherwise, you wouldn't see anything there)  

Well, to make it short and painless. Tackleberry are playing dead bone hard and ferious Metalcore, strongly influenced by punkmusic, which gives the songs a special structure and individual note. But there has to be still a lot more work doneto get the right button pressed in it's presentation, if you know what I mean by that. However, they are young and have got all the time in the world to privilege themselves, mind me... as long as they don't split again before that. And that one again is nothing unusual nowadays, is it...?!

http://www.myspace.com/tackleberryhc



Smoke Blow do a little better as headliners and get the walls shaking with two singers who listen to the names Jack Letten and MC Straßenköter. 

This is a pic taken without flashlight for comparison.

well, their names are a matter of taste indeed, but that's not the point. Their 12 years existence is clearly reflecting in Smoke Blows selfconfident performance. And again, half of the show is happening inmidst the audiance. Meanwhile the fans have come closer to the stage, moshing along with the band, most of all with their frontmen. Their sound the band describes as a mixture of Noise, Doom, Stonerrock, Punkrock and hardcore, whereby I can't really make a huge difference. So I leave it up to you guys out there to make up your minds. But in the end I do like what I get to hear. It's hard, it's none compromising, but it still contains sort of a recognition effect, getting stuck in my ear. This is an amusing show including some funny bits and pieces and a hell of an energy.

Just for mentioning it, the two singers are accompanied by Kentucky on guitar, Gerrard, The J.R. also on guitar, Greiff Hellhammer on bass and Fabrizio on drums. 

The place is steaming, whereby sweat is flowing literwise developing immidiately into damp again. And the most part of the crowd is keeping up with the band's physical exhaustion, building a smal but fine moshpit. One thing is for sure, the young heavy metal from nowadays is not dominated by longhaired,plaquative jackets wearing and headbanging stuborn looking guys, but rather by youngsters with short hair, a logoshirt only, but developing the place within minutes into a twister desaster dangerzone.

Over all, I'm pretty sure, if Smoke Blow keep going, we could get to hear a lot more of these boys in the near future. Because they have just started to leave the underground behind them, going to conquer the rest of the world. And I could imagine, that they manage to establish their name to a wide audiance. Meanwhile this means touring, touring touring their butts off. That's what you've gotta do anyway in Rock'n'Roll biz to reach some kind of destination. And of course a little luck... because without that, nothing else works in the present times. 

http://www.smokeblow.de/