KISSOGRAM ::

KISSOGRAM
b72 / vienna, austria
03rd mar. 2005

those of you who understand german can check out this review that i have written about KISSOGRAM. for those that don't, let me summarize: if there ever was an intersection between post-punk and indie rock and electro and club-music, then KISSOGRAM has found it. best to visit their homepage and listen to what they do.

let's talk about the concert. or rather, let's talk about the day before the concert first. it had been an expecially long and tiresome day at the office and i felt very exhausted. venue homepage and flyer said that the whole she-bang should start at 21:00, stage-time band probably about 22:00. that meant not enough time to go home and relax, but too much time head straight to the venue. what to do? right. have a nice beer and some chips at my favorite pub. so, by the time i was through with that and arrived at b72 it was about 20:30, which was ok with me. another beer, reading some comic books i had brought along. i reckoned that i wouldn't have to worry about what to do 'til showtime. how wrong i was. because (sadly) only very few people showed up. b72 has a capacity of about 150 people. my estimate: 40 people showed up. not good. and of those, only 20 really watched the show. even worse. and because of that the band, of course, waited until they were sure that no more people would arrive, before they hit the stage. which was at 23:00.

their performance itself was pretty satisfying. it started of as a very clean electronic pop, clubby dance-pop show, with bits and pieces of indie flair thrown in between, but as they progressed through their tracks they got louder, raunchier and ended up slamming some rocky electroclash through our ears, much to my pleasant surprise. another bonus: their super-nerdy electronic-geek behaviour paired with their showman's attitude. say what you will, but i bet those two know how to rock a crowd... if it isn't 20 viennese people who just stand around nodding with their heads, tapping their feet. oh well... vienna is a tough audience.

on a side note: obnoxious dancers. who rub up against you even though there are about a gazillion square meters of empty dancefloor to better dance on. and even though they aren't even that bad looking (she DID indeed possess a virtuous booty and pretty eyes), if there's no interest it doesn't help. and i wasn't interested. and she didn't care. i wonder if she even realized that she was rubbing up against me or if she mistook me for a pillar or something... who knows...