I was at a D.R.I. gig last night.
(they were the originators of crossover…punk to metal)
30 years after the infamous gig at the Old Canberra Inn,
when, with punters back-somersaulting off the stage,
a big mob of skinheads arrived, feeling agro,
and started a blue with audience & band.
Instruments were broken over heads & punch-ups all round
until it was rumoured that the cops were coming
and the skinheads scarpered,
returning once they realized they’d been mislead by someone
but now, having been a bova, they were in a more conciliatory mood,
& joined the mosh and circle dances in a spirit of brotherly reconciliation
Anyway, I got to talking with the promoter,
nice bloke Craig who bought me a cider
in appreciation of the fact
that after I walked in without paying,
sought somebody to give my dosh to.
(I’ve promoted, I know it’s for the bands)
So we’re talking about thrash & such
and get onto dubstep, proppa dubstep.
And he says he doesn’t know much about it
except that he has a mate into it
that knew some heads who told him about The 42,
supposedly a gathering of dubstep tastemakers
whose members come from all around the world
and follow a code somewhat similar to the Samurai.
Many remain unknown to the others except via anonymous communiques
and random meetings in a place that starts with L.
This sounded like metaller bullshit to me
but you never know…
Has anybody else heard of this group, The 42?
btw, D.R.I. were as good as ever but the skinheads never turned up
maybe cos their leaders,
after chucking a guy off a roof in Sydney while tripping,
got themselves killed.
well, there are only like 4 people that are dubstep ‘tastemakers’ these days (thats out of the 5 people still playing dubstep) and I’m willing to wager that they arent forming a secret group named The 42 based around Samurai codes of conduct.
It’s perfectly feasible to archive Dubstep electronically.
How many key labels are there? I mean really key labels. Big Apple, DMZ, Tempa, etc from the early days. How many releases on those labels? Get electronic copies of those, a decent server host in a country with relaxed copyright laws, upload everything. Text copies of key interviews, archive of photos from “the scene” back in the day, top it off with as many Rinse and early/key mixes as possible, then voila you’ve got an archived genre.
Similar to Alpacafiles but actually done properly this time.
yeah
and heard
I think they’re off to Sydney this weekend.
Singer + guitarist are originals,
bassist does Kiss impressions and is very funny
and the drummer’s a big younger dude.
I went with a hand-drawn t-shirt saying
O.C.I.
1.12.87
D.R.I
and they dug it
but didn’t believe me when I told 'em I’d arranged for skinheads to rock up
(where do you find a skinhead now days anyway?)
but they were calling out fascists all night.
Most of the mob were the all-in-black metal crew,
very few punk types.
Ran into 3 guys who’d been at the original.
One reckons he was 12 at the time.
In my top 3 gigs ever.
This one, I started in the mosh
but all these big fuckers kept jumping on my big toe,
the one I crushed with a log the other day.
I should find out how to upload pics on here I suppose.
but this 42 thing intrigues me
you sure none of you fellas are part of it?
I don’t believe this 42 have anything to do with aliens
nor are they a conspiratorial cabal,
not even a pampered elite
just a mob of true heads selected for their resilient interest in dubstep
despite the ongoing evolution of musical styles & fashions.
They’re not even that secretive; you could easily work out who they are
or at least what avatars & pseudonyms they go by.
It seems that they’re the dubstep equivalent
of the Club of Rome’s engagement in environmental matters.
which goes in symbols like:
two pizzas 4 ever or a bike = infinitely 8
everything is two halves of something like
4 is to 2
or
four is 4 two
or
4 is 2 two
We double up in relation to facing an outside component manifested as object, by being a subject.
I, (a subject), have both a soul that interprets and a mixomorph physical relation to all substance - meaning we are made of the same components or we have a part of what we face physically inside us. Like in the pic - but in all relation. This is contained in the mathematic symbol of 42 actually. It’s weird but it kind of is.
like this beak is formed so it can go in there best
but the plant grows by having a bird transport and shit out its seed
a seed is a plant egg
so egg or egg came first
but we know this beak has gradually transformed
yet this plant probably doesnt only grow at this 1 spot
so likely the bird must have built in something doubly ?
that’s very true hurb
and entirely romantic
as is 2 x 0 = 0
& 0/2 = 0
i.e. half of zero is the same as twice zero
similarly
a fourty-secondth of zero is the same as fourty two zeros
i.e. 42 is irrelevant in a world of nothings
