Mondo Bizarre Magazine Concert Reviews, Concerts

Dead Kennedys, Hard Club, Porto, 25.06.2025.

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words: Paulo Carmona (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro); photos: Telma Mota

Just kids. Some because they were it, some because they had been it. From 16 to 70, all were represented. Like recicled teenagers, unrestrained, in frantic rodeo mode. Parody, fun, good mood and peaceful provocation, mixed with punk rock and classic hardcore, served in a cold sweat-sour typical of that generation, was what Dead Kennedys brought on their luggage and spilled, at once, on stage. We have a video of the raw punkness on our insta instagram.com/mondobizarremagazine/

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It was impossible to remain indifferent to all the human warmness. Interactivity and symbiosis between band and audience. Those waiting for punk is not dead spirit got it, in double serving, with jumps, screams, crowd surfing and mosh among heat and sweat.

The Dead Kennedys run through all their landmark songs, from Police Truck through Kill the Poor, Too Drunk To Fuck, Nazi Punks, to Holiday in Cambodia, with endless energy. Only after a few verbal outbursts an stings realized most of the audience understood English perfectly well.

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East Bay Ray (guitar) and Klaus Flouride (bass), Dead Kennedys’ main core, were up to the demands, interacting with the audience when necessary. Steve Wilson, on drums, gave it all to be at D.H. Peligro’s level, and did it very well, not withdrawing from remember the band’s late drummer.

Above all, the concert showed punk spirit is alive and well, and it’s transversal to several generations, and still a war cry against oppression and oppressors. As for old people? Which old people? I saw none. What else?…

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Mondo Bizarre Magazine Amazing Sounds & Other Delights, Radio Show, Raquel Pinheiro, YéYé Radio

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #82 – The It’s Summer edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio, Monday 30th

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Strolling along the Seashore (1909)

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #82 – The It’s Summer edition airs Monday 30th, 3-4pm (gmt+1) on Yé Yé Radio: till yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

As the name says, it’s summer. Therefore, let’s celebrate it. Nearly all the songs, from Franz Ferdinand – Build It Up ft. Johnny Marr to Sydney Minsky Sargeant – I Dont Wanna have just been released or are recent.

There are two indie oldies, The Durutti Collumn’s Sketch For A Summer and The Go-Betweens’ Two Heads. As tends to be the case with my shows, indie and mainstream go hand in hand, although here there are several pop breezy indie alternative songs. But Harry Styles and Laufey pair with Jeanines or April March. There’s an acoustic guitar instrumental, AL Guitar Duo – Reencontro (feat. Pedro Jóia), and the customary Mamas & the Papas classic California Dreamin’, here in covered by The Rebels.

Tracklist:
01: Franz Ferdinand – Build It Up ft. Johnny Marr
02: Cass McCombs – Peace
03: Robert Robertson – Broken Arrow
04: Harry Styles – Watermelon Sugar
05: Pressyes – The Sunlighttt
06: The Durutti Collumn – Sketch For A Summer
07: Jeanines – Coaxed A Storm
08: AL Guitar Duo – Reencontro (feat. Pedro Jóia)
09: Panda Bear – Virginia Tech
10: The Go-Betweens – Two Heads
11: Laufey – Lover Girl
12: The Rebels – California Dreamin’
13: Weezer – Island In The Sun
14: Lightheaded – The Garden
15: James Yorkston – Love Luck (feat. Johanna Söderberg)
16 – Forth Wanderers – Bluff
17: Swansea Sound – Pacior’Fan
18: Sydney Minsky Sargeant – I Dont Wanna
19 – April March – Laisse Tomber Les Filles

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