Band: Anti Product Venue: The Office, South Shields, UK Date: 30 April 2001
Okay all you guys out there "do you want to rock" and I mean really
mind-bending rock!! Go and see this band if you like it heavy and
psychedelic and just want to party you arse off, they are the people to
help you get there.
We all went to see Anti-Product again, for the second time in a fortnight
at "The Office", after helping them celebrate their first birthday party
at Changes One, South Shields.
The party started at 3ish and we all had a few beers together including
some extra special "Anti-Product Ale" (brewed by Bass) and had a chatter
to the band.
Ian Tunstall owner of Changes One and Sergeant Major in the Anti-Products
Rock Army surprised them into a spoof version of "This Is You Life" which
went down a storm and thrilled the band and the birthday audience, no
ends.
Then Alex kindly did an interview for the Mall - which you can read in the
interview column - and then we all helped out in the creation of a video,
chanting merrily along to "Hey, Let's Get It On". Equity will be calling
shortly!
The Office, which is in the middle of a housing estate in the centre of
Shields, was absolutely heaving with bodies everywhere. Far more people
than had been at the Trillians gig a week earlier.
There was two bands on penultimatly before the headliners and these tasty
morsels treated us to some hard hitting Rock n Roll, especially "The
Relatives" who really know how to hit out those e-chords like there is no
tomorrow.
Then about 9.30 all the lights went down and the u-v lighting starts
clicking its way through its starter motor.
Five fantastically Fluorescent people shot out onto the stage and started
to frantically thrash out "Hey Let's Get It On" and we all just went
maniacally insane.
The fanatical crowd surges were like those of early "Wildhearts" gigs down
at the ever-loved Riverside. The amount of arms and bodies in the air was
lovingly ludicrous.
Then into "Psychedelic-Girlfriend" and "These Are the Rules, That We Rock
By" before Alex and the band, dangling us adventurously into "Bungee
Jumping People Die" and we all screamed along to the chorus and deafened
the mobsters within earshot!
The lighters all appeared momentarily around the room for "Arms Around The
World" and then the jumping up and down endured.
"Best Days of Our Lives" was sung next, which I adored, the band warmed
even more with the audience and the smiles and enthusiasm that was flying
around the place was just unbelievable.
The whole bar was alive with people joining in and making the gig an event
rather than just a run of the mill gig.
Then the anthemic "Big News" which Alex did his athletic bar vaulting on
the lighting rig and then into crowd pleaser "Supergirl". The night was
ended with "Live In England", which went down a storm.
If you are going to see any live band this year and you hear about these
guys in your area go and see them, because they just get better and
better.
It'll be the most fun with your clothes on you'll have had in ages!! (But
you can take then off if you like!).
