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 Photo: Elleni Toumpas
A collective inquisitiveness unites the two hundred or so punters who have turned up early in the week to check out first-hand the very first live Australian show by British pranksters and Jackass copycats, Dirty Sanchez.
This curiosity plateaus and decays as local rock outfit The Ladykillers strum through a particularly uninteresting set of up-tempo, under-nourished tunes. Peter Sellers would have probably joined the crowd in willing the un-expected set to finish quickly, as early vocal protests quickly progress toward the throwing of objects. Better suited to a suburban pub, The Ladykillers show enormous amounts of intestinal fortitude to play on through such a taunting reception. Eventually a DJ refocuses the audience’s waning attention, peppering with tunes more fitting the demographic; Blur, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill and Motorhead all work well here. When the familiar theme song rings out, Turbonegro’s All My Friends Are Dead, the four MTV misfits of self-destructive mayhem stumble out, as if finalists in a drunken hip hop karaoke competition – minus the hip hop. The show that follows is excusably loose – after all, Dirty Sanchez are drunk – the talents of the three-quarters Welsh troupe lying mainly in receiving and inflicting a myriad of painful pranks, unhygienic insertions and ghastly exchanges of bodily fluid. Set to a suitably intense soundtrack featuring the mighty Slayer, the show is dubbed the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ and is formatted as a series of agonising duals, where the loser (or rather, the greater loser) is subject to a pre-arranged, painful, humiliating, or otherwise cringe-worthy punishment. Despite themselves, Pritchard, Dainton, Joyce and Poncho are humorously self-effacing, never once taking themselves seriously, and they manage to forge on despite a failing sound system. Perhaps as interesting as the on-stage antics is the response elicited by the crowd; their unflinching response to such thick and fast politically-incorrect banter, heavily laced with personal taunts, phallic references and fluent obscenity, surprises this reviewer, whose cynical view of Queensland’s tolerance levels has since been softened. JAMES STAFFORD
1. Written by I was there.., on 09-05-2007 14:35
This review neglects many of the obscene details, perhaps for the better. For the record, here are a few puke-worthy examples:
“Bungee Balls” – A stretched out rubber cable, is attached at the front to a belt. Facing away, the cable is stretched through the legs, to the other side of the stage, reaching twangy-tension. Cringe, cringe, snap, drop – victim goes down and turns purple with pain as sympathetic guffaws are drowned out by absurdly sadistic laughter;
A penis is snapped between nylon guitar strings, said guitar is smashed over Poncho’s head (see pic);
Butt hole-gripped drumstick fencing. Drumsticks are lubed by spit and vomit, and inserted rectally. They parry back and forth in a barbaric twist to the once noble art of fencing. The loser is the first to drop the stick, copping a nose full of the opponents' soiled handle as punishment. Ala The Dirty Sanchez;
Word Association game where the loser's knuckles are caned, at full swing – canes are snapped, knuckles go red, then white, the same guy loses every time;
Penis insults, genital exhibitioning and general distasteful banter fill the gaps between nauseating pain. Actually, a great line came part-way through, when Poncho says "now here's where it gets really gay";
Without a definable hand-washing, surgical needles are roughly pushed into one of the guy’s arms. All I can think about are faecal parasites and saliva-borne bacteria.
There's a semen smearing stunt which I don't care to detail;
The Finalé:
An inflatable wading pool is dragged out, goggles are donned. Pritch assumes the “knees to the ears, bum to the sky” position as they pour beer down a funnel pre-inserted rectally. He takes nearly three foaming stubbies in and the enema is loaded. The goggle guy crouches, and receives the high-velocity beer-enema spray face first. The spray is fierce and surely reaches the security guards and punters who are still, through some feat of bravery, lining the barricade.
Too numerous to mention, too vulgar to recall, this list represents but a portion of the antics involved in the Dirty Sanchez live show. |
2. Written by Bill, on 09-05-2007 17:20
I am in The LadyKillers and it was our first 'major' show.
We got 4 or 5 days notice of playing this show with Dirty Sanchez. We expected to get heckled as the people wanted to see a shock show, not a rock show James. Yeah, we had a few things thrown at the start, but they weren't there for us.
I had a lot of people send us messages saying " how could you do a show like that and we played OK". Well we did it and we survived. Any band would have been booed and we admit "it wasn't our best show", but we survived what the Arena said was "that was one of the toughest crowds ever".
They weren't there for us and we know that.
Dirty Sanchez were very good. |
3. Written by I was there 2, on 09-05-2007 21:19
The band that was on did very well ( i thought ).
The Ladykillers have played Club 299 a few times and everytime i have seen them, they put on a good show.
But, i didn't know they were playing and no one else did either.
I was there for Dirty Sanchez and what a great show ( i got my moneys worth ).
The beer anima was awesome and i quinched a few times at some of the stunts.
I recommend seeing Dirty Sanche, if they come back and i think The Ladykillers have played better and were put off by a tough crowd ( i was in one of the fights out found helping to get a mate out, when i got king hit ). |
4. Written by Dirty Sanchez ROCKEDDDDDDDDDDD, on 09-05-2007 21:24
Who cares about the band (they were OK). I was there to see Poncho, Pritchard, Joyce and Dainton do some sick crap. And sick is what i got. I great show all round.  |
5. Written by DS, on 10-05-2007 12:02
Waz a full on night! Dirty Sanchez fkn rule the sick fkrs!! 
The rock band on first suprised me (not too bad!).. didn't no there was gonna b a band. They did well considering the crowd. Sanchez boys coming back?? |
6. Written by Brendan, on 10-05-2007 12:39
Apparently in Perth Sanchez were only on for half an hour, to the crowds disgust...
and bottles etc were thrown at the band before sanchez came out, bass player jump in the crowd, so did singer, fight time!!! |
7. Written by An LK fan, on 12-05-2007 13:04
 Hahahaha
It was an OK show and it sounds like every band would of got stuff thrown at them.
The LadyKillers were on almost longer then Sanchez in Brisbane.
$50 ?
I felt ripped off. |
8. Written by Saw em in Melbourne, on 22-05-2007 14:38
There's a mad edited dvd of the Melbourne show floating around the net somewhee... I suggest you guys loo it up.
And the band in melbourne got dissed majorly, so don't feel to ad ladykillers. |
9. Written by Vanessa, on 18-04-2008 22:58
I was there and the band rocked more than Sanchez. Sanchez, you were a big disappointment, ok - but you still didn't deliver. The Ladykilers - I thought you were hot. The crowd were a nasty bunch that's for sure, but you rocked. Since seeing you at the Arena, I've come to everyone of your shows. Much love to the band, thumb down to Sanchez. :P |
10. Written by Jessie, on 07-01-2011 10:51
Does anyone know what the kind of hip hop track that s quickly played now and again on te seven deadly sins is? its killing me thanks x |
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