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Q-Check & Wickeda Live @ Backstage

Posted in Concerts by thearyn on July 17, 2008

Hey ho! Last Friday I finally managed to see the original band of La Muchedumbre new vocalist and currently a new friend of mine, Lucho. His band is called Q-Check (phonetically this is “belly dancing” in Bulgarian :))) ). What really nicely surprised me was the fact that the name wasn’t just a creative luck but the very beggining of a really entertaining creative burst out! :)

I was kinda pesimistic about the entire thing, influenced by people telling me they suck on their MySpace records etc. … Arriving at the venue I found the band outside drinking mint liqueur, which brought back my hopes of a good eve, and of course the vocal in a mixture of redneck and pirate outfit… “Thats gonna be fun, you know…” :)

Q-Check blasted right from the start with total mega hits! Hm… old-school turbo-folk mega hits? O_o… But in a skate-punk version :) …which totally rocked! The moment they charmed me completelly was when they introduced their second vocal… an outstanding lady named Roza (Rose) who sang the song “All That She Wants” of Ace Of Base. Needless to say it was a punkish remake :))) Interesting for Q-Check is that both in the extremely funy and smartly selected remakes they do and in their own tracks they manage to introduce a lot of musical influences over the punk base including ragga, hip hop and to my great surprise they have even implemented an idea I want to realise since long, having awesome d’n'b drum solo in one of the songs! :)

Well about Wickeda I believe it’s completelly unecessary to say whatever! They have pretty much proved themselves enough everyone to know that everytime it’s a good show, good communication with the public, good improvisation and powerful author’s songs.

For a while after the very first few songs of Wickeda the entire night was just about to become a failure due to equipment overheating… As complete professionals Erol and the other members managed to continue playing without a single monitor working on stage and made few tracks like that till the equipment is back again. Rather then cooling the spirit of the eve, this poured total new energy to the crowd and having in mind what happened till the end of the gig I should admit that was one of their best shows lately with the entire audience going mad! I should admit I went there accomponied with half of the staff of the agency I work for, including my boss :))) To my great suprprise they all ended up as moshpit activists! Respect to that! :)

On the undisputable encore the band did their only remake of the night, the obligotary these days “Killing In The Name” by Rage Against The Machine with guest vocal Lucho from Q-Check.

Well, sweat, beer and true rock’n'roll of this lovely eve lead to some lovely pics as usual, so time to heat up this anyway boring text. And here we gooo…

Q-Check
www.myspace.com/qcheck

Wickeda
www.myspace.com/wickedabg
www.wickeda.net

Club Backstage, Sofia
11 July 2008

Q-Check