niedziela, 10 sierpnia 2008

The Real Deal

The Gdynia show will be remembered not only because of the dope HC gig but extraordinary Misiek's stage appearance. When Pain Runs Deep were just about to finish their show he got on stage, invited his girlfriend Ada picked up the mike and in front of his friends, Ratel crewmates and numerous HC kids, popped up the question. Then Pain Runs Deep played Judge's "Fed Up" and everybody moshed, sang along and stage dove like crazy for the just engaged couple. Things like that don't happen on every show, huh?
I would be a wuss if I kept shooting instead of shouting, so I left the camera on the amp and joined the crowd, as I should. So don't complaint about the second part of this footage. If you don't sing along to Judge, you're not my friend.




Koncert w Gdyni przejdzie do historii nie dlatego, ze byl to rzadzacy HC gig, ale rowniez ze wzgledu na wyjatkowy popis Miska. Gdy Pain Runs Deep konczylo juz swoj wystep, ten typ wkroczyl na scene, zaprosil na nia Ade, przejal mikrofon i w obecnosci, swoich przyjaciol, braci z Ratel Crew i licznie zgromadzonych HC kids - oswiadczyl sie. Pain Runs Deep zagralo "Fed Up" Judge i wszyscy dostali totalnej korby. Takie rzeczy nie dzieja sie na kazdym koncercie, co?
Niezly bylby ze mnie fujara, gdybym wtedy stal z kamera, zamiast byc pod scena. Prosze zatem nie narzekac na druga polowe tego materialu. Jezeli nie spiewasz do coveru Judge, jestes przeciwko mnie.

www.myspace.com/defendhc

There will be a crowded room, where I'm not all alone

Gdynia is the city up North and Pacior started to put on shows at Ucho, which is a dope venue really close to the beach, like 5 years ago. I have been there many times and shows were alwasy amazing. Really well done, kids always mosh, good vibe and shit. As long as I remember he wanted to put on a Bane show badly but it has never worked out for some reason. When he finally had a chance to book this gig, it couldn’t turned out better than it did. A summer day, filled with tons of cool kids, great food (props goes out to Avocado catering) and good bands. This show was as hardcore as it gets.

I never had a chance to see Bane before. They played in Katowice (South of Poland) 8 years ago but wasn’t into them, at all. What a bummer. I discovered them really late, starting with the last record and I totally fell in love with the lyrics and music. Both so unique. It was so great to see all those kids going apeshit that night.

Go and watch some footage from Gdynia and Aaron speaking about lyrics, hardcore and what he would miss when this band had ever ended. Hopefully won’t happen too soon.

Part 1:


Part 2:


Part 3:


Pacior zaczal robic gigi w gdynskim Uchu jakies 5 lat temu i dosc szybko zdobyly sobie opinie jako jedne z lepszych w kraju. Bylem na nich wiele razy i zawsze bylo dobrze - organizacyjnie, kulinarnie, towarzysko i muzycznie. Odkad pamietam, Paciorowi zawsze marzylo sie zrobic gig Bane, ale jakos nigdy sie to nie udawalo. W koncu, gdy do tego doszlo - nie moglo byc lepiej. Lato, pelno spoko typow i typiar, dobre zarcie (przygotowane przez catering Avocado) i dobre zespoly. Bardziej hardcore'owo byc nie moglo.

Nigdy nie widzialem wczesniej Bane. Grali kiedys w Katowicach, 8 lat temu ale wtedy nie bardzo mnie interesowali. Co za porazka. Odkrylem ich naprawde pozno, wraz z ich ostatnia plyta i totalnie oszalalem na punkcie tekstow i muzyki. Ten zespol jest naprawde wyjatkowy i dobrze bylo widziec jak dzieciaki dostaly szajby tamtego wieczora.

Zobaczcie sobie kilka kawalkow z koncertu i to, co mowi Aaron o tekstach, hardkorze i czego bedzie mu brakowalo, gdy ten zespol sie rozpadnie. Mam nadzieje, ze nie nastapi to zbyt szybko.

www.myspace.com/banecentral

piątek, 8 sierpnia 2008

Pain Runs Deep... gigging and crushing

Last weekend was such a blast. Where should I start? Ok, Aneta and I went to Krakow (South of Poland) and Gdynia (North of Poland) which are not the closest cities around but there was reason for doing that. We went there for some shows that turned out to be the best ones this year. And one of the best gigs ever. Everything was perfect – kids, bands, promoters, vibe, crowd response, long unseen friends, new folks, food, hang outs, stage dives, sing alongs, goose bumps...
Frankly speaking, I go to shows and I hardly feel like I am at the hardcore gig. I watch the bands, I enjoy the music, I hang out and that’s it. I go home and a couple of days later, I can’t remember a thing. This time it was totally different story. The very next day at the office, I couldn’t think about anything else but how good my life was and how much I loved hardcore.
All of the bands I saw were great and delivered excellent performances and it takes a couple of entries in this very blog’s to give every one a credit that they deserve.

So let’s start with Pain Runs Deep.

The two shows of theirs I had a chance to see were dope. You could see how enthusiastic these guys were and that they poured their hearts and souls into their shows. They used to be a good band 10 years ago but nowadays they’re a fucking killer. Everything I love about the hardcore – they have. Great passion, integrity, they’re not afraid to be vocal and they keep it totally positive.
In Kraków the room was just perfect. The venue name was Odnova, there were 108 (sic!) tickets sold and it was already packed and hot as hell. Two days later was Gdynia at Ucho, the venue that I have already known for ages, bigger but still great room with excellent stage that seemed like designed to dive from.
This band grows stronger and I can’t wait to have them back.

Get back for more footage and stories soon.

Life is good!

Part 1



Part 2




Ostatni weekend dosc zarzadzil. Od czego niby powinienem zaczac? OK., Aneta i ja wybralismy sie do Krakowa i Gdyni, ktore moze nie naleza do najblizej siebie polozonych miast w Polsce, ale mielismy powod. Jak sie okazalo, byly to dwa najlepsze gigi w tym roku i jedne z lepszych w ogole. Wszystko bylo jak nalezy - ludzie, zespoly, organizatorzy, atmosfera, reakcja publiki, dlugo niewidziani przyjaciele, nowe dzieciaki, jedzenie, hang out'y, stage dive'y, singalongi, dreszcze...
Szczerze powiedziawszy, chodze na gigi i rzadko juz sie czuje jak na hardcore'owym gigu. Podobaja mi sie zespoly, spedzam czas ze znajomymi i tyle. Wracam do chaty i pare dni pozniej o wszystkim zapominam. Tym razem bylo zupelnie inaczej. Jeszcze dlugo po koncercie nie bylem w stanie myslec o niczym innym, tylko o tym jak dobre mam zycie i jak kocham hardcore.

Wszystkie zespoly, ktore widzialem byly dobre i zagraly dobre gigi i zajmie mi kilka wpisow tutaj, zeby Wam o tym opowiedziec tak, aby ich nie pokrzywdzic.

Na poczatek Pain Runs Deep.
Oba gigi, ktore grali i widzialem - rzad. Widac jak bardzo ci goscie sa podjarani i jak duzo z siebie daja na kazdym gigu. Byli dobrzy 10 lat temu, ale teraz sa znakomici. Maja wszystko to, co kocham w hardcore. Pasja, szczerosc, nie boja sie mowic tego, co mysla, a przy tym sa totalnie pozytywni.
W Krakowie miejsce bylo doskonale. W klubie Odnova na bramce skasowano 108 (sic!) biletow i byl totalny tlok. Dwa dni pozniej bylismy w Gdyni, w Uchu, znanym mi nie od dzisiaj, z jego scena, ktora zdaje sie byc zaprojektowana, aby z niej skakac.
Ten zespol rosnie w sile i nie moge sie doczekac, az znowu sie wyswietla.

Wpadnijcie tu za jakis czas, bo to nie koniec.

Tymczasem!



www.myspace.com/painrunsdeep

czwartek, 7 sierpnia 2008

Pain still Runs Deep

When I figure it out about Pain Runs Deep reuniting for a bunch of shows at frist hand, I had kind of mixed feeling, frankly speaking. You know, reunions and shit. But since I've known the dudes for ages and some of them were kind of out of loop for a while, I was kind of looking forward to it.
I had a chance to see only one of the April's shows but I was totally hooked. What I really loved was the thing that they haven't talked about how it was "back in the daze" or "those kids today" and stuff like that. The thing is that I didn't feel like this is the reunion, it was much more like they haven't played a show for a while and finally they did. No old man talks at all.
I asked the people who showed up at the show how they felt about the band and the PRD dudes themselves about their own reasons and hopes to do what they do. What you can see below is what I combined all together. The show took place in Warsaw and again was promoted by This Is Warsaw folks who actually are booking the coolest shows around.

I saw PRD again last weekend, so you'd better come back to this blog and check the new videos in a couple of days.

www.myspace.com/painrunsdeep
http://www.thisiswarsaw.blogspot.com/











Gdy dowiedzialem sie o tym, ze Pain Runs Deep ma wrocic na kilka gigow, mialem troche mieszane uczucia, mowiac szczerze. Wiecie - reuniony etc. Ale jako, ze znam tych typow od lat i kilku z nich trudno bylo ostatnio spotkac, to tez troche nie moglem sie tego wszystkiego doczekac.
Mialem okazje zobaczyc tylko jeden koncert z ich kwietniowej trasy i calkowicie mnie kupili. To co mi sie bardzo podobalo to fakt, ze obylo sie bez gadek "jak to bylo kiedys" albo "ta dzisiejsza mlodziez" i tym podobne. Prawda jest taka, ze wcale nie czulem, ze to to jest jakis tam reunion. To byl koncert zespolu, ktory przez chwile po prostu przycichl. Zadnego biadolenia starych dziadow.
Zapytalem ludzi, ktorzy wpadli na ten gig o to, co sadza o PRD, jak i samych typow z zespolu, o ich powody i oczekiwania w tym, co robia. Powyzej mozecie zobaczyc, co z tego wyszlo.
Koncert mial miejsce w Warszawie i zorganizowany zostal ponownie przez pakiete This Is Warsaw, ktorzy robia obecnie najfajniesze gigi w miescie.

Widzialem PRD ponownie w ostatni weekend, wiec radze tutaj zagladac, bo za kilka dni pojawia sie nowe filmy.

www.myspace.com/painrunsdeep
http://www.thisiswarsaw.blogspot.com/