I Wanna see my Freaks

Out to see the Acid Mothers Temple last night in Birmingham with Ady and Mick. They usually play the Social, but have skipped Nottingham on this tour, so we drove over to the Hare and Hounds in Kings Heath, a good pub with a decent sized room upstairs, good sound too, and the expected 98% male audience...


AMT are a band of hirsute Japanese gentlemen who make an absurdly psychedelic racket which Ady and I first encountered about 5 years ago at the Social - we saw the poster for the gig, thought it looked ridiculous, and decided to go. It turned out that Julian Cope had come along for the ride, apparently he is a big AMT fan, and during the encore he loomed about the stage in an orange jacket and green leggings, just happy to be joining in the general cacophony. It was a good night, we had no expectations and the band were terrific - very loud and repetitive, with songs interspersed with throat singing, which broke up the relentless guitars.

Last night they were OK, certainly not as good as that first time, but still entertaining.