Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have a lot of killer songs, a lot of shit-kickin’, badass tracks that make you want to drive screaming into the night, firing a shotgun out the window of your buddy’s pickup while he swerves at breakneck speed through Nowheresville.
But it wasn’t until I heard “Restless Sinner†that I really started to take this band seriously, because for me, that song cuts right down to the bone.
It’s very seldom I can listen to it without some long buried memories clawing their way back out while I stare through the walls glassy-eyed, remembering…
It’s getting tired now, this constant pleading for tickets to Synergy and besides that, begging fucks with my pride.
This would have been a great opportunity for someone, an event sponsor, a partner, the event organisers themselves (God forbid!), to hook a brother up because the coverage I’d give them in return would have been epic. Their loss, the retards.
Instead, I guess I’ll just have to skip Synergy this year. I can’t afford R820 to get me and J-Rab there, because that’s not the only cost. It’s also another tank of petrol and it’s the booze and food while you’re there.
Add it all up and you’re looking at the business end of at least R1500 and we just plain can’t afford that at the moment.
I had this dream of meeting the band, swapping some war stories, connecting with them as people, flesh and blood and finding out what makes them tick.
In that dream, I asked the frontman Peter Hayes about “Restless Sinnerâ€, what the song was about, why he wrote it, what it felt like to play it, but he didn’t say anything, just crossed the room and unlatched his guitar case…
-ST
rs sessions is pure magic
and if a ticket came along you´d come up with the rest – would you?
Damn straight! I can handle the damage for one ticket, but that extra R440 will damage my anus,
-ST