Rock Show: Sugar Donut, Viva Soul, Ghetto Bombs

Last night I attended what would have to be the oddest concert lineup in the history of man. Three bands that had extremely little in common came together for a night of rocking the shit out of everything.


First up was Sugar Donut. They sound a lot like the band Weezer with a touch of Green Day. Basically they are a quasi-punky pop-rock band.


In between two songs, this guy saw me in the audience and struck up a conversation with me in English. When I responded in Korea, the entire audience gasped in astonishment. "Ohhh! He can speak Korean!"


This guitarist was awesome, though technical difficulties caused he to throw his guitar at the end of the set.


Here's a picture of the bass player...I never take pictures of bass players, and for this I am truly sorry. As compensation please accept this picture of Sugar Donut's bassist.


Viva Soul in da house! Put yo hands up! That's right kids: after some punk-pop madness, Viva Soul, a Kore rap group, hit the stage, bustin' mad rhymes.


Apparently Viva Soul had enacted a photography ban during their set, a fact the girl behind me tapped me on the shoulder to educate me about...stupid bitch! Anyhow all I got were these couple of crappy photos, but it didn't matter as I would learn later in the show.


So after the rap party that was Viva Soul, we get the Ghetto Bombs. Punk Motherfuckin' Rawk! Well actually they're kind of ska/punk rock, but that's not important. What is important is they rocked the fuck out of Baram!


More Ghetto Bombs. The dude with the cast on his arm usually plays guitar too, but with a cast on his arm that was out of the question.


Again, as atonement for never taking pictures of bassists...here's the Ghetto Bombs bass player.


A bunch of Korean girls (and one dude) going totally aggro during the Ghetto Bombs set. Not since Lillith Fair has a pit contained this much estrogen.


And here's why the bitch enforced Viva Soul photo ban didn't matter. Viva Soul hit the stage with Ghetto Bombs for some of the best rap/punk insanity this side of the Judgement Night soundtrack. I literally took more than 30 pictures during the short time Viva Soul returned to the stage. Take that "No picture please" bitch! I'll take pictures of Viva Soul if I want to.


Ghetto Bombs bassist moves over to the organ for more rocking.


After Viva Soul departed again, the drummer and guitarist from Sugar Donut came back out. The drummer from Ghetto Bombs grabbed a mike, the guitarist from Ghetto Bombs grabbed a bass, and the bassist grabbed an organ. Here's some of the madness.


Ghetto Bombs and Sugar Donut...ROCK! ROCK ON!!!

This show was one of the weirdest I've ever attended. I mean a line-up like this would never fly in the States. The indie kids would scoff at the rappers, the punks would beat on the indie kids, and the rap fans would hate the punks and indie bands for have lame beats, but here it was all good. The best thing I saw was some punker dude decked out in the boots and braces and whole nine yards, singing along to one of the Viva Soul songs. The whole thing was pretty odd.

And speaking of odd, on my way home I saw not one but two fights. The first was a super huge fight in the subway station that involved some 20-something woman, some old mountain climbing men, the ticket vender, and one of the green shirt guys. The whole thing was out of control, and stopped everyone in their tracks. Some girl with pink hair, who I'm pretty sure was at the show (unless there are two korean girls with pink braids in my hood), came over to comentate for me. After that fight concluded, I headed off towards my home. Back on the street I saw some dudes brawling with a cab driver who had cut a bus off. This brawl was going on in the middle of three lane street...awesome guys!