The guy on the radio says the Rod Steward concert at the Memorial Arena in Victoria is "SOLD OUT".... I slowly walked the street feelin down and wondering how much the great Rod the Mod tickets will sell from the scalpers hands. Rod has done his time in the music industry and so a sell out show in Ole Vic is probably what he deserves. The rain is falling and i walk towards the Lucky bar to see some real punk music by bands who have also done some time in the underbelly of the music industry. Tonight the Shivs and veterans of punk Death Sentence will be belting out some "Wake up Maggie" in your face punk.
I entered and wandered up to the bar. I saw Blind Mark caneing around the floor in a sober fashion and figured he needed a drink. The bar tender poured the poisons of choice and Blind Mark and i made a toast to the evening and he was quickly swept away by a horde of women. The crowd was pretty thin for this evenings show but the night was early. I had a quick chat with a handful of locos then i bumped into Doug Donut... i had just done a twenty hour non-stop road trip with Doug earlier this summer that was a lesson on how to speed and get away with it. Doug got away with it but i didn't... "pay the pig ricky"....Oh well no groceries for the kids that week!
I sat on the sidelines alone for quite awhile untill Blind Mark white-caned himself onto the stage and said a few words about drinkin then the blast of hardcore assaulted the audience. I chose to stand by Mikey the guitar player for this show. His grinding guitars still take me back to my youth when i was a big Negative Approach fan. This band is always great to see,

unfinished artikle for Absolute Underground 2004.