The Café Teatro La Nube, located in Santutxu (one hop from the metro, El Karmelo exit), although it is still in the transfer process, returns to concert activity because its owners, Jorge and Carlo, felt that they were bitten by the bug and wanted to give space to tours by foreign groups that no longer passed through Bizkaia. Do not forget that almost all concerts in bars or hostels are held because the owners of these venues are music fans, otherwise they would disappear from the agenda.
And this week La Nube is programming two gigs by international groups: on Wednesday one of the Dutch mods The Mocks, and this Monday one of the highly energetic rockers Poison Boys, from Chicago, who filled the bar with 80 people eager for a reunion and so predisposed that pogo was mounted at the end of the gig. Oh, and because of their desire to return to the Cloud, the club put hearts on Facebook when the event was announced.
The Poison Boys (Chavales Venenosos) are on their first Spanish tour: 14 concerts in 13 days, without a break and with a double last Saturday, when they performed in the morning in Vitoria and in the afternoon in Almazán, Soria. The 14 gigs run through the eastern half of the peninsula (the right half of the map, Guitarricadelafuente would clarify “for those who don’t know”), from Malaga to Tarragona, stopping in places like Albacete and Teruel. And when we got to the bar, trustworthy people told us two things that lowered our expectations: first, that the group came as a trio and not a quartet due to the loss of the second guitarist (a family problem has prevented him from touring, it seems), and second , that on Saturday they did not give a good gig in Vitoria. Ugh…
The Furious Bass Player as Dee Dee Ramone.
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But the worst omens did not come true in his tenacious, growing and sweaty gig of 23 songs in 83 minutes with two encores this Monday in Santutxu. Surely they did not plan to play for so long, but the parish was for the work. Dressed in leather, the bassist and drummer looking tired and the skinny leader, singer and guitarist, more alert, in their ninth of the fourteen Spanish gigs, the Poisonous Boys fought with a repertoire that fused rock and roll with ease among the Flamin ‘ Groovies and the Hellacopters (whom the leader imitates from his cap), punk rock between the Undertones and the Buzzcocks (and going through the Ramones who they covered for the epilogue), high energy (Iggy flew over quite a few songs, maybe also MC5 although it may be a suggestion…), garage (the perpetual party of the Black Lips), stoner rock (the snort of the bass, especially at the beginning of the evening), ora austral connection (in the Lime Spiders we think of the song number fifteen) ora Scandinavian (executions of Turbonegro, of the aforementioned Hellacopters…) and devotion nuevaolera (echoes and choruses via The Jam, the dance of San Vito de los Rezillos)
Poison Boys hardly spoke to the respectable (they talked more among themselves in cabals to decide which song to play next), they gave themselves to the limit of their strength (which gave of themselves more than expected), and at the end they sprinkled the versions, among which that fit three of the Ramones (‘I Don’t Wanna Go Down To The Basement’, ‘Loudmouth’ and another) and the Rolling’s ‘Satisfaction’ that seemed populist and out of place. And before that, song number fourteen was ‘Take a chance with me’ by Jerry Nolan, the drummer for the New York Dolls and The Heartbreakers.
And the people were delighted. It was difficult for the undersigned to get out of the door of the stopper that there were spectators buying merchandising from the Poison Boys.
Tomorrow, Wednesday, you already know that The Mocks tulips will be there (8:30 p.m., €10), these in the fifth concert of a nine-date Spanish tour.