I haven’t bought a record from Estrus in several years now. Two reasons: they mostly suck and for some reason they are incredibly expensive here in Europe! But the first Mistreaters LP on Big Neck rocks so hard that I simply had to get the second one. It rocks even harder! It blows smoke right outta Satan’s black ass and it makes most other bands sound like a bunch of girlie sissies. I hope you believe it when I claim I was a happy man when I got them hooked up with 1000Fryd. Unfortunately we had Red Warsawa the same night and even worse, in every possible respect, we had Nina Hagen here as well. Apparently that’s where most people went so nobody turned out at 1000Fryd. Their loss. Local heroes-to-be (I’m sure) Dirty Lyle had already played at the same peace, love and understanding festival that Frau Hagen headlined so they turned up in fine form, and they kicked some solid ass with their stoner trucker punk. Loads of Lowrider style stoner riffing but played in a more redneck punk rock way. They are from the eastern part of town so they have that authentic streetwise hard rock attitude…and they look funny too! It starts off really good, but gets too tiresome after 5 or 6 songs. The songs are a bit too alike and too much metal takes over in some songs - and they should drop the Ramones cover! The good songs are great though and they deliver the goods on stage. This was their show number 5 so it’s gonna be mighty interesting to see what they can make of it.
Mistreaters kicked so much butt in front of 15 people. Their fucked up blues punk came blasting through the speakers. Equal doses of Oblivians, Pussy Galore and Gories (they even played a cover of them) crammed into a huge, loud ball of pure rock action. Amazing! Lead singer Christreater delivered some mighty fine Otis Redding moves and the band went from good to better and better and in the end the PA went out (of course) and they played two encores with the amps turned down and Christreater singing through a megaphone shaped lampshade. I would have liked it louder but it gave the whole thing a more family like atmosphere. That was nice. Why nobody in Copenhagen booked this band is unbelievable. They will be back in 2004 so maybe someone should kick the bookers at Stengade in the groin area and explain a few tings about rock’n’roll to them.

(SN)