Show review 10/10/'13: Stubborn, Shell Beach & The Southern Oracle @ Panique D'o, Mechelen

Alien lights are ruling the cold terrace in front of Panique D'o that is filled with no people. At all. The venue was divided in a rather strange way for setting up a show and the self-destructive microphones spontaneously fell apart several times during the night. However, the lights were awesome and the bands gave this poor evening their best shot. What else do you need? Maybe a crowd. And some Belgian beers.

When Stubborn starts playing their show, the frontman takes an effort to drag people into the back of the venue,  with as result that most (read: all) of them keep on wasting their lives on playing biljart with their fellow students. Sigh, where the fuck were all of you hardcore kids? Back to the show. The Brutality crew were the only two Belgian people to attend the most part of the performance, next to the 17 counting Hungarian tourcrew. We were thanked and blessed by the Stubborn guys. Around the end of their set, suddenly an unexpected change in line-up took place. The vocalist dropped the microphone and the guitarplayer took it over, while the singer now was creating sounds with the strings he was given.

Stubborn: https://www.facebook.com/stubbornbandhu

Shellbeach brought some faceslap screamo influences and a variety of clean vocals. The guys' singalongs were assisted by the crew only. Bandmembers walk to the pooltable until the cables are pulling them backwards in another attempt to seduce students to come to the back of the venue. The evening looked more like a big hungarian jamsession, but that made it however more cosy.

Shell Beach: https://www.facebook.com/shellbeachband

The Southern Oracle played an enormously energetic show. For every move the guitarist, bassplayer or drummer did not make, the vocalist made five moves. Some parts of the show reminded us even of the excentric Belgian band Amen Ra. Rugbygame situations were happening as the vocalist rolled over the floor while singing and all of a sudden six, maybe seven other fellow Hungarians decide to crush their singing friend. Aaaaand at this point the record got broken, because we counted 6 Belgians attending the show.

The Southern Oracle:  https://www.facebook.com/thesouthernoraclehu

All of you who didn't show up at this event: you will rot away in hell. No mercy for missing those awesome bands. Still, you should check them out. Maybe there are some spare seats upstairs.

Lights off. Goodnight.