Vaccuum, Occult Blood, Pig Heart Transplant, Ivens

This show happened Jan. 28 at the Five Points Art House in SF which is the cool new all ages basement in the Shitty that actually has good bands regularly. Two of the bands on this bill were cult underground heroes from Australia and one was a supergroup side project so the cred was in abundance for how small the show was.

The first band was the Ivens from Australia. It was a two piece hip hop noise thing that was kind of cool when I first started watching them but they got progressively less interesting because they pretty much did the same thing the entire set which was growling atonal rapping over simple beats and amp fuzz. Great band for a comp but not a whole LP.



Occult Blood played second and shared members with the Ivens. They played weird and crazy powerviolence with a saxaphone. It was rad and reminded me of Colored Rice Men a bit.

Pig Heart Translplant is a side project of Jon from Iron Lung. He told me about the band like a year ago and I finally got to check them out live. While they set up I noticed that on drums was Greg Wilkinson from Laudanum and Brainoil, all of a sudden people were twice as stoked on the band and they hadn't even played yet. This band is punishing. Slow in a grinding way and noisy. Word on the street is that they call it industrial music but that sure as fuck left any Coal Chamber song I heard in the '90s in the dust.


Last up was Vaccuum and they killed it as usual. I hadn't seen them in a basement before, they went off. Beards, fists, and hair were flying.