I’m not sure what fire hazard means exactly in this case, but a lot of people got disappointed by the forced cancellation of the band Monotonix, who was supposed to open for Faith No More at the Palladium in Hollywood, yesterday night.
Did the Palladium chicken out at the idea of having these wild animals perform their acrobatic antics in their location? May be! It’s insane, the place has had Rage Against the Machine early this year and other fury unleashing bands, but it is true that these unruly rockers from Tel Aviv know how to take risks.
I have never seen them live, but looking at some videos on line reveals a rare craziness, with a lot of jumping and crowd crawling, a lot of body climbing over body, combined with way too much naked skin and ass hair you can handle… the lead singer Ami Shalev, always in his underwear, looks like a Circus act Iggy pop and seems to have specialized into crowd surfing on a drum kit, into landing on the crowd after jumping from anything which is at least several feet high, or even into climbing at the ceiling when possible. Some guts and an outrageous attitude for epic performances! The guy even broke his leg after a show last January…
But Los Angelinos, rejoice, they will be back at the Echoplex on January 27th….
and I am very tempted.