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Nearly seventy people attended the party-show Saturday night which took place in the living room of a small house off of North Loop in Austin, Texas. I had been looking forward to this event since they cancelled the show at the Blue Flamingo the weekend before last. The last time
I recall experiencing the Primadonnas was this past Spring. Unfortunately the Primies have not played much this summer. Julius played
with his other band 100 Watt Clock, Otto went to school and flirted with a group called the Bad Shit Fuckers, and Nikki toured the East coast with Glorium. Saturday night, though, the three were in town, in league, and in sync! Three local bands including Shat Records opened for the immigrants from the U.K. The members of an electronic band must have endless amounts of patience... wow. The tens of people in the air conditioner-less living room had raised the temperature about twenty degrees hotter than the already balmy Austin summer night, rendering the sensitive digital equipment glitchy and tempermental. Once an electric fan was found that could cool the wires, the Primadonnas proceeded to remind the audience of their reason for attendance. "Hong Kong Boogie... I get my ya-ya's out... Hong Kong Boogie... you're going to scream and shout... Hong Kong Boogie... Oh Otto move it aroooooound... Hong Kong Boogie... so shake you're Hong Kong Bootie dooooowwwwnnn." The band introduced three new songs to their 15-song garage-dance canon: "Konstant attention" -- another scrooner about acceptance for the disenfranchised; "Torture" -- a slow rap about the pains of being a star; and "Pincushion" -- a song about a vixen who gets everything he/she wants before coming face to face with the uncompromising Primadonnas. I noticed the band had a new uninhibited desire to play their more popular songs which had been noticeably absent from the past several shows. |
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