Traidora @ New River Studios, Harringay Warehouse District, London 25/10/78 with Mantis/Docile/Misgendered/Victim Unit
The Hardcore scene has many voices whether its abstinence through Stright Edge or Anti-Facist or Pro-Palestine, one voice in particular has come screaming from the underground and that’s the Trans/Queer community. Queercore is home for trans, non-binary, queer HC looking for sense of belonging and acceptance. Trans and queer issues have bee a big talking point recently with the Labour government U-turning on acceptable gender identification and denying trans kids pubert blockers and of course not forgetting the toilet dilemma and who can play what sports and when.
Openers Victim Unit formed in the face of sexual abuse after Lotta, one of the Cyber Grind Queercore duo was kidnapped and raped. The vitriolic anger is spat back at a defiant society still on the fence about what is deemed acceptable. Raging guitar rips through backing track of Hardcore beats and samples. Having completed top surgery two years ago, front person Lotta bears their chest to make sure that society understands queer culture isn’t going fucking anywhere. A sentiment echoed by Misgendered who’s full on Queercore aggression is met with frenzied shapes being thrown from the pit. ‘For fans of being screamed at’ the five piece smash their way through a brutally heavy set. Bristol’s Docile feels like an ironic name as they blast searing Blackened Crust that leans into lo-fi Black Metal riffing with Hardcore screaming vocals and blasting drums. Their set is uncompromising and uninterrupted as they belt out song after song with an aggressive force. Mantis’ ‘Goblin Punk’ is just as ferocious and powerfully raw, with that low end Black Flag energy as vocalist A screams herself horse. Headliners Traidora are celebrating the release of their new full length album ‘Una Muja Trans Sin Pais.’ What started out as a solo Punk project from Venezuelan born transsexual Ava Leblanc who is celebrating her trans birthday and sings in Spanish, are now an aggressive queer Hardcode four piece with clear bond between them. They belt out anthemic Punk brutality that tears civilisation a new arsehole to a pit that’s been warned how to behave, with no spinning fists etc so that all can be included, free to dance and be themselves in a world that’s trying to deny them that liberty. They bring things a cathartic ending to a Punk fuelled night with many happy faces manically jumping around.
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