Concert Review: !!! (CHK CHK CHK) Shake Bowery Ballroom
There are certain artists that do not just make music but an atmosphere. To buy a ticket to their show is to buy into a promise of a very particular night, and !!! completely offer that, which is a given. When your name is, literally, three exclamation points, I can safely assume you are down for some excitement, and lead singer Nic Offer is ready to supply.
!!! (Chk Chk Chk) – Dancing Is The Best Revenge
With a British schoolboy outfit and penchant for beating his thighs with drumsticks, Offer catches your attention. He is the epitome of a “freak”, you were told to “avoid” but wished to join. As he dances like a crazy man and yells with fervor “I Don’t Give A F**K”, he embodied every “secret’ definition of freedom. In a world where prudes are actually Pharisees and hypocrisies and lies can pass as long as they have a suit on, Offer might be the realest guy of all, even in his surrealism. His show is, literally, as dance-fest with funkadelic tracks streaming through his set like an actual sonic river. “Dancing Is the Best Revenge”, “One Girl/ One Boy”, and “Throw Yourself In The River” felt more like a music opportunities for Offer release his inner dance spirits. When he is feeling a song, he closes his eyes and spins like a top, stretches like a Gumby doll, and get up close to the audience like, a 3-D film. There was no such thing as personal space between him and the crowd and the audience between itself. People shook into each other and blasted in each other’s ears the lyrical sound-bytes that make !!! sou brilliant. Like “I Don’t Give A F**K”, they know how to say the one catch-phrase that you can put in an empowering, mental loop. Yet, they do it over scintillating, sensual rhythms and a slight, raunchy swag.
!!! (Chk Chk Chk) – ‘The One 2’ (New album Shake The Shudder May 19)
When you are wearing short shorts and are seemingly rolling in an eternal pelvic thrust, it is hard to fend off a sexual air. Yet !!! are putting the !!! after lust and fun. Sometimes, in life and love, you need to be daring and eccentric to not only make memories but be a memory. In essence, freaks are remembered. While they may be judged, although who is not, at least, they are themselves, and nobody can take away that Nic Offer and !!! give a concert where you can be your boldest self. For More Information On !!! CHK CHK CHK Click Here.
!!! (Chk, Chk, Chk) – One Girl / One Boy
