A concert that brought together an endless number of urban tribes in a great party, is what was experienced with the visit of the Spanish band Illegal during his visit to Mexico City as part of his “Rebellion Tour ”.
The night had as opening acts to the bands Rude boys and May Sunday. Once his presentation was over, the giant screen would show an image of a sculpture of Lucifer in scarlet, so that suddenly Illegal start the evening with Hockey Stick and "Not So Much, Fool." "Good evening men, women, children, monsters and monsters" greets Jorge Ilegal to people as you cheer up with "New Times, Wild Times" but especially with "Hello, Mamoncete"that with its rhythm ska wake up the slam on the track. "She jumped out the window" and "Suicide"Come next, and then listen "Blues Secret", song that George reveals it makes him hysterical and fascinates playing. It must be said that this was a special night since as the band revealed in our interviewThis concert would be special and many unusual songs would be played.
"Exhausted from Waiting for the End", "Everything You Say We Are" and "I go to the bar" they are shot and then put on our best jacket because "The North Is Full Of Cold. Revolutions go down a bit with "Lovers of Warsaw" before we get another unexpected song like it was "The Fragrant and Shadowy Forest"If anything marked the show of Illegal it is the fact that we had moments of 2 or 3 quiet and singable melodies and then we had 2 or 3 more accelerated and so on: with well-marked valleys and musical plateaus; like for example with that tone of rock gloomy they share "Pale Boys For The Machine" ,"I Am Who Spies On Children's Games" and "If Death Looks Me In The Face I Get Lao". With his sweater black striped white that looks like a football referee George continue the night with "The Girl from the Golf Club" to then give us one of the crudest moments of the night comes with the bohemian sound of Exterminating Angel and the story of the soldier who returns from the war as a hero but without legs; but after that we laugh with the adventures of "Make a lot of noise”And the eloquence of“My Friend Omar" That is the best way to define Illegal: a band of irreverence and social conscience that goes from jokes to raising their voices, always with their characteristic black humor and sarcasm.
After listening to the band's voice the multiple times that the musicians have been crossing the ocean throughout this tour we have again a couple of quiet songs in "Return to Chemically Pure Sex" and "The House of the Mystery ”. But this pause was just so I could get some air because "The demon" and Rotten Caramels They re-activated people who jump and sing endlessly. Illegal keep giving the best of old and new themes with "Carapijo World", "You are a whore" "If You Don't Fight You Kill Yourself" and "Youth Rebellion In Mongolia". What came next was a railroad of themes in which punks, goths, skinheads, psycobillies, metalheads and any other urban tribe present, did not stop doing slam and open a huge circle of pushes and flying beer: match "I am a Macarra", Dextroamphetamine" and "Beast, Beast" followed and as the end of the first part of the show, it was an adrenaline rush and power that brought out the most animal and crazy of all those present, even with attempts of real anger including that were reduced by the same assistants or the security personnel of The Plaza.
After a brief pause Illegal return to the stage. "We have been told that we have time for one more song, so we will play three or four " announces George stealing applause from the public before "They're All Dead", to later tell us the legend of the "Lonely man. The show is coming to an end now yes, but there are a couple of classics that can not miss: "I have a sexual problem" first it warms up with all the motors and the spirit of the people that later, and after receiving the blessing of George hoping to meet again in hell according to his words, he grips a total madhouse with the rhythm of "Destroy" that with his speed from less to more in each choir closes the concert in a brutal and explosive way. This is how the rebellion comes to an end and Illegal He leaves leaving more than satisfied all the fans who filled the forum.
All photos by Antonio Ramírez [penci_review]
