This should have a Monday night thingy: One Band, low door price and followed by DJ & Table Tennis. Tour plan of the Imploders though got them into Hamburg on Tuesday, so no DJ, no Table Tennis and no Support (as no suitable support was found, a theme that would continue next day at the Monkeys).
The Imploders are from sunny Toronto, Ontario (the largest City of Canada sporting a hot summer humid continental climate). And they did have the eyes of the nerds (ie. me and me mates), all looking forward to see if they can live up to what we heard from Bandcamp or other sources.
19 Songs to go, so bets where out if they would come in below 30 Minutes…
Upon taking the stage their normal look and casual dress style actually gave high hopes that this was to be no fuzz, none pretentious and exiting.
And what did we get?
A great guitar that is sound wise almost like Frank Navetta on MGTC, a sturdy drummer with a great shirt, a fast bass with solid backup vocals and an nutty singer that goes baazzoong on stage.
Imploders (Hafenklang, Hamburg, 24.10.2023 (c) gehkacken.de 2023)
And how did it sound? It indeed sounded like they secretly managed to fix what i have not been able to fix, ie. the flux capacitor. And this must be their band van:
And with their van they must have been to Culver City, CA, to Indianapolis, IN and maybe even to Phoenix, AZ. And once back in Toronto they reset their brain, their ears and … trash out as if a time distance of 43 years is … nothing
MRR praises their demo in the right way:
It sounds great, beefier than your typical thin basement demo but with all the dials in the red where it counts. There’s an ’80s influence here—especially in that guitar tone blurring the line between clean and filthy, as well as the bratty, acrobatic vocals—but it all sounds like a fresh jolt of juice.
And on stage it went like this:
Great stuff, right up my mu-sick-al alley. And indeed delivered non pretentious and shoving it right up the audiences ears. As it should be. The singer also took time to lecture the audience (“I am your daddy”) and praised a regular (for dancing without bones).
Imploders (Hafenklang, Hamburg, 24.10.2023 (c) gehkacken.de 2023)
I was sold, me mates where sold and they came in almost perfect with 27 Minutes for the 19 songs. And as ever if a band convinces me live i took home vinyl (and some badges) and i was not alone when it came to pilfering the merch table.
The LP is out in the US and too in the UK, here is the UK variant for you greedy #recordcollectorsarepretentiousarseholes
Great band, great short set and a great number of mates around me that i would see again next day at Conservative Military Image at the Monkeys. The band themselves where quite surprised about reception and turnout as they did not expect the 42 attendees that took the effort to come out on a dull Tuesday evening.
That said, i was disappointed with that magic number. They should have had more, i guess that is where the lack of a local match on support comes in. But hey-ho, for getting up to work next day this was a perfect end prior to 22:00, fitting our old punk age.
