On our way home from the show with Vera Cruz (by the way, they spent the night at Martin´s place) we talked, joked and laughed about tangerines who tastes like shit. Imagine, you want to eat a fresh, juicy, sweet tangerine then you peel off the paring and all that you get is a dry, wizen and awful tasting piece of whatever.
Later at home I started to compare the good looking but awful tasting tangerine with the nowadays hardcore scene (I know, what a stupid comparison, haha)
The Hardcore scene is known for things such as DIY, a strong community, friendship, love, compassion, passion, tolerance, topics like animal rights, veganism, the fight against sexism and racism, politics, ideas and so on. (this is the good looking paring of the hardcore tangerine)
But from my point of view it seems that there are not a lot of people who cares about the positive impact of hardcore. They don´t take care about animal or human rights. They don´t take care about sexism, they don´t care about the message and the lyrics. They just care about trendy clothes, cool mosh moves, party and drinking. (and this is the awful tasting pulp of fruit)
It´s not just about heavy, loud music, high fives, mosh and stage dives, it is so much more than this!
Don´t get me wrong, I love to have a good time with my friends, to party and to go wild in front of the stage but this is not everything what hardcore is about.
It is more than just music… Hardcore has completely changed my life.
I know this is old hat but do something positive with your anger, support your local scene and bands who have something to say, get armed with a mind, start your own fanzine, start a band, take charge of your actions…together we can make a change! (Together we can grow a sweet, juicy and tasty hardcore tangerine, haha!)
By the way, our next show will be on March 9th in Linz at Ann & Pat Club:
We have the honor to share the stage with Father and Gun from Graz (check them out!)! Hope to see a lot of new but also familiar faces there!
Greets!
Reini
