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The Locust
At Camden Underworld, Camden Town
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The Locust at London Camden Underworld, Mon 28 Nov
This is a certainty of a show, a complete no-brainer. It’s a purely does-what-it-says-on-the-ticket experience, and that’s both sad and absolutely unsatisfying...»
About the venue
Camden Underworld
Beneath the Worlds End Pub, right opposite Camden Town tube.
Home of such Drowned in Sound shows as Span + Winnebago Deal + Colour of Fire (March 3rd 2003) Biffy Clyro + Redjetson (March 2003), Kinesis + Reuben + Miss Black America (February 2003) and many more.»
About the artists
The Locust
The Locust has been throwing up in the face of conventional music since 1995, when the band formed from the pieces of San Diego hardcore stalwarts, Swing Kids and Struggle. Since then, it has hosted a veritable “Who's Who” of punk royalty. Everyone from Tristeza/Album Leaf/GoGoGo Airheart/Crimson Curse's Jimmy LaValle, to Tarantula Hawk's Dave Warshaw and Dylan Scharf, and Cattle Decapitation's David Astor have gone in and out of the band's turnstile. The songs are fast -- usually under a minute -- atrociously ultra-violent and drenched in sci-fi-noise, gruesome keyboards and herky jerky, bestial scream/sing vocals -- described by one journalist as "a car-wreck with vocals".
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