Andy Shaw has been trying to get me to check out his band Kissy Kamikaze forever, and I always somehow miss them.  I tend to not leave my house before midnight and they seem to always play before dance parties in that like 11pm set.  But they played the Glamdammit 5th year anniversary on Saturday night and it was the release party for their new CD so I decided to leave my house a bit earlier than normal. They had just started playing when I walked in and were fucking shit up.  The crowd seemed really tame compared to the music that was coming from the stage.  I wanted to start fucking shit up in the pit, but instead I was asked to move out of the way so a girl in a wheelchair could see better.  I think it was pretty clear to me that Kissy Kamikaze should be playing dirty skumfuck punk venues and not Glam rock dance parties, but as a skumfuck punk rocker myself, I enjoyed their set a lot, I just wish the crowd was slightly more active.  My one complaint for them was that they seemed to try to be a little cutesy instead of getting ugly and in peoples faces like their music suggests. I’d just like to see some people get spit on and some punches thrown instead of hugging.  Still, they were pretty fucking awesome and I rarely get to shoot punk bands any more, so I was pretty happy about that.

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