!!! / Holy Fuck | 9:30 Club, DC | 5/14/2007
On May 14th !!!, also known as Chk Chk Chk, played at the legendary 9:30 club in Washington D.C. to support their newest release Myth Takes (Warp).
Toronto natives Holy Fuck opened up the show with their brand of spontaneous, electronic music. Their set up is intimidating. Sure, there’s a drummer and a bassist but there are also two large tables facing each other suited with an array of knobs, pedals, and gadgets. Holy Fuck abstain from using laptops and other modern technological aides that are mainstays in the electronica genre. The most interesting of the contraptions is a 35 mm film sequencer. Being totally foreign to this type of equipment, the only thing I could relate the set up to was the toddler toy sets I had as a child that had a variety of colorful buttons to press and plastic screws to turn.
