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erica hess singing "oh bondage,up yours!"
karoliena verlinden singing "domination"
setlist:
1.too drunk not to fuck
2.milk cartons
3.oh bondage,up yours! (xray spex cover)
4.go go gadget
5. domination (karoliena and erica on vocals)
the harlots take the stage to the very cliched clockwork orange theme.erica greets the crowd with "Konbanwa!",to which the crowd enthusiastically responds.she continues with "sorry,i dont know anymore japanese...we're the harlots and we hope you guys have fun tonight!" starting with chloe (drums),one by one the band starts playing along to the clockwork orange theme.this build speed until they switch into "too drunk not to fuck".
"too drunk not to fuck",goes over well.the song is about girls who blame their promiscuity on alcohol,instead of taking responsibility for their actions.the song is humorous and easy to sing along to.soon after it starts,fans are doing the can-can in the aisles.
next is "milk cartons".the song is a 180 from "too drunk...",it is slow and grinding.the subject matter is equally odd.it tells a story of a woman who watches a hobo pick milk cartons out of her trash every thursday.this drives her mad until she finally kills him and disposes of his dismembered body in future discarded milk cartons.based off a short film by erich hess.
after "milk cartons"'s din fades from the speakers.erica addresses the crowd, "recently poly styrene of the xray spex fell victim to breast cancer.so we'd like to do one of their best known tunes as a tribute......some people think little girls should be seen and not heard.but i think...."the band then switches into high and really gets things going..possibly because this is the only song people know,the harlots are basically unknown in japan.nina sangria's guitar work does a damn fine job of covering the duties of the guitar and saxophone the original possesses.
nothing gets people going like a good cartoon theme song.the harlots have played the inspector gadget theme song since their inception. "go go gadget" is a sort of bastardized version of the inspector gadget theme,mixed with the song from speed racer.the crowd gets a pretty respectable circle pit going to this tune.
karoliena trades mics with erica and the band tears into "domination".originally penned for karoliena's solo albums,"domination" is about,well what else...domination.karoliena's smooth and jazzy vocals compliment erica's squeaky,near cartoony vocals pretty well. the two go back and forth with erica begging to be whipped harder,and karoliena refusing.
the band closes the show by taking a very beatles like bow.chloe tosses her drum sticks into the crowd .erica smacks her in the head and warns her "you coulda put someone's eye out!!!"
