Drunken Lullabies at Dürer kert

Bands: Simple Resistance, LochNesz, PlumIsFallin

Venue: Dürer Kert, Ajtósi Dürer sor 19-21, Budapest

Time: February 21, 2012 - 9 pm
Entrance fee: FREE

What if I told you about an amazing party with free entrance, three awesome bands, and drinks for half price? Yes, this sort of thing happens in Budapest. Before coming to this show I only knew LochNesz, as I saw one part of their show at Folk-Rock-Maraton last month at the same club (formerly, believe it or not, a school). It seems that they are regulars over there. Luckily, this time I was able to make up for missing them last time, where they, along with two other Hungarian bands - Simple Resistance and PlumIsFallin, prepared such a show that left everyone in awe.


 

The evening started after 9 pm with Simple Resistance, a quite young band, formed in Budapest three years ago. So far, they've released an EP - Slowdown, with a full length album in making. They describe their genre as "a fusion of the American hard rock, and the popular modern rock". The vocals made the band sound more harsh than what we would usually expect from pop rock, making it easier to get into the music since most of the audience were fans of heavier music.



Setlist: Intro, Saturday Night, Remodel Your Life, Hardrock Bitch, Sorry, Crossing the Road, Bidonville, Try to Remember, Midnight, Let it Go.

To my surprise, LochNesz played the second, leaving the role of the main act to PlumIsFallin. In their live shows they mainly present covers, ranging from Scottish and Irish to punk rock music, even including the themes from the era of pirates. Among the most famous artists, covered by LochNesz, are the ever-amazing Flogging Molly from Los Angeles, and Dropkick Murphys from Massachusetts. Those of you who have already been introduced to this kind of music, might recall the most notable pirate band in the world of metal music: Alestorm, whose song Keelhauled could also be heard on Tuesday night. To make the party complete, there was also a birthday song followed by a stage dive, a march with the band's bagpiper, and a giant pirate flag, which was circling around the club in the hands of the fans. Being the Hungarians that they are, the influence of their fellow countrymen, Paddy and the Rats, could be seen in their style, covers, encore, and also the arrangement of the setlist, which was basically done the same way.

Setlist: Pub and Roll, Wicked Suicide, Salty Dog, Monster, Worker's Song, Shipping up to Boston, Keelhauled, Rum, Seven Deadly Sins, My Sweet Betty, Drunken Lullabies, Freedom, Devil's Dance Floor / (Greenfields of France, Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya, Paddy's Lament) / Auld Lang Syne, Drunken Sailor.



The last act on the stage was a band with an interesting name, PlumIsFallin, whose music again differs somewhat from the previous two bands. What they played was a variety of elements such as reggae, jazz, dubstep, triphop, etc. The beauty of this kind of music and bands is in their versatility and immerse talent to perform on different instruments. Namely, among the huge number of instruments on stage, their use of trumpets was purely breathtaking. What these guys did with their music shed a new light on the whole show, finishing it in their explosive song, Burnup!




Setlist: Hegykirály, Star Wars theme, Hiphop, Over, Mészidub, Bikkidub, Drown, Metro, Feellike, Intro, Burnup! 

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