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bratmobile review
oh fuck, i just kept thinking bout that part of the le tigre tour theme, where kathleen's just going: "yeah, you know the guys with the digi cameras, push to the front and then they just stand there? but then we see the girls walking towards the dancefloor and we remember why we go on tour."
because there was this boy standing next to me, filming the show and not moving one bit. and there was allison on stage, doing cartwheels, dancing the whole time and doing splits in the air with such fervour that she ended up kicking her thumb really hard. and erin was playing guitar so good, so fast and molly thumping the drums. but at least all these cool girls were up at the front, dancing and singing along and knocking into each other and just being complete dorks.
mai and me, we danced the whole way through the set. allison ran through the crowd as she sang, and stopped and danced with us during 'cheap trick record'. and she waved at me a bunch, and got a cute girl up on stage to sing with her and it was just about the most fun i've ever had seeing a band.
i can't tell you how much i dug it. and i talked to molly afterwards about my dissertation and she said that it's very cool i'm writing about riot grrrl and i was just trying to forget that she'd been in bikini kill too, because that would have made me lose my cool smore. and i thanked allison for talking to me and got a bratmobile tee and i swear, me and mai just jumped the whole way home.
music that powerful can make a girl fearless. it can make a girl want to be in a band herself. and i feel bad because this review is never going to give the best show i have seen in a time any justice at all, but i wanted to write something about it.
because this show has made me want to write again. those girls encouraged with my feminism and my dissertation and it was just the most wonderful.
i'm gonna stop gushing now, i swear.
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