June 23, 2009 – The Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, BC
Hm. Quite a few white shirts. Wonder how that’ll turn out. Vicious Cycles have all their ethnicities covered: white, brown, hobo, and robot. Quick and fast set, pretty random punkness, a good time. Speaking of which, so are the Evaporators. For real, that Nardwuar dude is so crazy happy all the time that you can’t help but join in. The songs are all very simplistic and easy to follow, but without Nardwuar’s over the top enthusiasm you probably wouldn’t care too much about these guys. My favourite moment was when he simply handed over his maracas to the nerdiest looking fan he could find, and the dude went insane with maraca fever! Talk about entertainment. Then it happened. Andrew WK took the stage. He actually said, “this isn’t a show it’s a party.” Maybe not the best idea. Soon after the first actual song, the audience rushed the stage and began to dance all around him. Pretty quickly you couldn’t even see Andrew. Between songs they would attack him, putting their clothes on him and taking pictures. He never stopped playing. Total insanity and security failure. The show appeared to end early with an accapella number, apparently caused by the crowd damaging the sound equipment on the stage. After much chanting, both Andrew AND the Evaporators returned for an encore performance of “She is Beautiful”. If that weren’t enough, closing the night the Sub Humans singer Wimpy came up to sing, while Andrew played guitar. Total and utter chaos. Wow.
-David Warren
