The Punk Rock Bowling Kick Off Party Featuring: Cockney Rejects – Youth Brigade – The Generators – and The Civilians – at Azul Tequila – Las Vegas, NV

The first night of Punk Rock Bowling consisted of a few different club shows, making it hard to choose which o ne to go to. But of all, I would say due to the special guest headliner, the most anticipated one was the one held at Azul Tequila.


Opening the show were Las Vegas natives, The Civilians. They had a very short time to play, but they made sure to keep the attention drawn with their fast oi influenced music. During the last song the singer asked if everyone wanted them to leave, but instead the crowd cheered them on to keep playing.

Within 15 minutes, The Generators were on stage ready to cause chaos. Not only is their music entertaining, but they are as well. The singer was standing on speakers, jumping off of whatever he could, and making sure to get everyone involved by letting people sing into the microphone.  After explaining to us how they have been covering a certain song for about 15 years now, they began playing CockSparrer’s “Runnin’ Riot”, causing an even bigger pit to erupt.

Youth Brigade was up and the crowd was packed and ready to hear their songs. They played their usual badass set including all of their old songs. They played 2 others that hadn't been played in years.  Right before they played “You Don't Understand”, Shawn Stern told us that when they wrote this song, their dad asked if it was about him. The other song was “One in Five”.  During “Men in Blue”, a few guys started break dancing in the middle of the pit during the rap part. Youth Brigade was awesome, but it was time for the special guest.

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Shortly after 4 guys got on stage and it was Cockney Rejects!  People were stoked and rushed to the front. They played a couple of sing-along’s including “We Are the Firm” and “Power and the Glory. He kept dancing around the stage pretending he was boxing someone.

During one song, an excited fan got on stage to stage dive, and once he jumped off no one caught him. A circle of people rushed to him while he laid there and couldn't move for just a bit and some people took him to the sidelines (The next day another staff member ran into the guy, he had a bump on his head and a bandage he got from the hospital visit, and other than that he was fine). Cockney Rejects still  played a few more like “Flares and Slippers”, “War on the Terraces”, and ended with the famous”Oi, Oil, Oil!”.  The night left everyone excited for Sundays Cockney Reject performance.
 

-Corinna P.-
Big Wheel Staff Reporter

 

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