A true legend and icon of punk world came to Mexico City to give a show full of power and delivery in the Skull Cat. We are talking about Alice Bag, an institution of the genre and pioneer of the movement since the 70s, and which was good at coming to shake an audience made up largely of women who love the punk.
The night started with the surprise and previously unannounced presentation of the punk noisy from Jubenil Degreasing, who although with few people watching them made a scandal with topics like “Desastre Nacional” and “15 minutos de violencia”. After them we had the performance of ETC Those who already had more capacity also managed to generate a great response. However, the real bomb would explode with the performance of Rope, a young band of punk made up of pure women who immediately took over the stage and won over people with its fast and aggressive sound. In front of the barrier, the accumulation of people were pure women, who jumped and sang with everything until the end of the group's presentation, and from that place they never moved until the end of the night. It is worth mentioning that the band Mustang 66 She was also scheduled to play, but an accident in her drummer's uber prevented the performance, the organizers announced at the end of the show at the microphone.
At the time of the stellar act, Alice Bag She goes on stage with her hair perfectly painted in neon green and kicks off the evening with “Babylonian Gorgon” of his times with The Bags. From the first song Alice It shows that she is a real beast with brutal power and attitude onstage, and she leaves us all speechless with the energy she gives off. Alice He has a fairly good command of Spanish and proof of this is that he decides to sing “Turn It Up” en dicha lengua lo cual es más que aplaudido por la gente. Dedica “The Sparkling Path” a todas las personas que les gusta ser diferentes sin importar las cuestionen por su ropa o color de cabello, para luego interpretar “We Don`t Need The English” original from The Bags; song he composed in response to a band punk who told them back then that the punk America did not exist and that only the British was good. Alice in an almost maternal way she explains at that moment that she will try to say what each song is about before playing it, so that those who do not speak English also understand the context.
Un tema crudo y de actualidad entonces es tocado en la canción “No Means No“, que describe una situación de violación. Y es a medio tema que Alice interprets a fragment of “El Violador Eres Tú”, a song that feminist activists have made famous around the world in protest in recent months. Needless to say, the forum insisted, with a notorious percentage of women, went crazy with it. “Fui maestra hace muchos años y estuve en Nicaragua, donde vi que a los niños los educan no para hacerlos pensar sino para que sirvan al sistema. Esta canción la compuse ante esta situación” comments Alice before playing “Programmed”. Although he confesses being 61 years old, the truth is that Alice it has a power and presence that vocalists already want to transmit punk of the half age that the lady has, and she tells us she feels like a goddess thanks to the affection of all those present. Apologizing for the shit of president they have in the US runs “Reign Of Fear” and then close the first part of the show with the bestial “Blueprint” que desata el slam Among the girls who, incidentally, have endorsed the clue: when a somewhat inebriated and impertinent fan tries to mess with them, he is quickly taken out of space. He moshpit That day was theirs, friend.
After a brief pause Alice he comes back and tells us he will play a song that he almost never plays, and he gives us “Survive”, also from the time of The Bags. People start asking “77” and Alice He confesses they do not have it ready, but he is not intimidated and even inviting the singer of Rope to throw pigeon with it, he is armed with courage and pleases attendees. That theme that talks about what a woman earns in pennies for every dollar earned by a man is then executed in duo with a Alice weighted that in the most honest way he confesses they will not play anymore because they don't know another song anymore; but they will be happy to live with people for a while. Thus ends the show of a living and humbly simple legend.
All photos by Alfredo ALV [penci_review]
