So my ears are still reeling from last nights musical tragedy.

I blame this (for the most part) on Sydney's Emergency! Emergency! who did not fail to disappoint in sadistically raping any semblance of common sense or good taste in exchange for image tripping and electro zombeism. That they have recently won a Triple J unearthed competition to play at the Great Escape festival with the likes of Fishbone, further goes to prove to me that we are indeed living in the times of the apocalypse and that the Great Satan is rumbling here, in hell.

Like the destruction of the great library of Alexandria or more recently, the Sumerian tablets in Iraq, E!E! manage to systematically demolish years of human musical evolution and take us back generations into what could be compared to primitives discovering that hitting things equals noise. Now, instead of rocks, they have keyboards.

I doubt the difficulty of pressing play on a sequencer while screaming unintelligible syllables into an innocent microphone, or playing the grand total of three single notes into a delirious and suicidal guitar while a volley of noisy beats assails a band of brainwashed morons.. being all for experimentation, what I took away was, rather than the fulfillment of experiencing something new, but an empty hollowness.. not unlike the feeling of someone who has taken drugs to the point of no return.

Repetitious, uninspired, noisy, image driven, self conscious, abrasive and dull. Mind numbing and depressing. E!E! are all this and more.

I can only hope that soon enough our image obsessed cultures obsession with cheap retro cliches like gameboys and 'vintage' korgs, soon dissipates so that these type of bands can wake up, ashamed and famished, ready to turn over a new page and make ammends for their sins by giving the rest of their life over to feeding the hungry or helping the poor.

I *would* give my sympathies to all attendees for having to endure such horrors, but it is too late, their minds having already been wiped and irrevocably tortured into an electro slash techno slash disco slash slash fever.

Allah have mercy on us all. (What is amazing is that E!E! are actually one of the better bands of this style of music.. the others are too shameful to even mention)