Mondo Generator : London Mean Fiddler
Jesus. What more do you want? Blood? Oh, there was some of that as well...
Formed in a blizzard of cocaine and mushroooms somewhere in the Palm Springs desert in the early '90s, Mondo Generator are the side-project group of Queens Of The Stone Age’s dick waving, billy-goat bearded bass player Nick Oliveri. Mondo Generator hardly ever play out live and while the Queens Of The Stone Age live experience is all robot-rock-precision, a Mondo Generator concert is more like slipping on somebody’s else’s puke and falling down the stairs onto a pile of broken glass. Then when you finally regain consciousness you find you’ve pissed your pants and somebody’s stolen your wallet.
By song three, Dave Catching’s amp has blown up and Molly Maguire’s bass has started to sound like a broken trumpet (trust me). The technical problems don’t seem to bother Oliveri one bit though – he’s too busy serenading a silicon breast implant, freshly plucked from the front of the red chiffon cocktail dress he chose to wear for tonight’s soiree. He’s also wearing a wig that makes him look like one of the girls you used to see hanging around at King’s Cross station before they started building the Eurostar tunnel and they all got moved down the road into the housing estates of Kentish Town.
"I’m the ugliest girl you’d ever want to fuck! So fuck me", he announces before they blunder into another mish-mash of punk, drug rock and psychedelic mess - the chaos barely held together by drummer Brant Bjork, the man who drummed in '90s stoner rock behemoths Kyuss with Oliveri.
As well as all the slightly ropey but entertaining Mondo Generator songs, we also get Nick’s best Queens Of The Stone Age tunes – ‘I’m Gonna Leave You’, ‘Tension Head’ – a cover of Black Flag’s 'Jealous Again' and an old Kyuss classic ‘Allen’s Wrench’. They’re all performed with the precision and dedication to musical correctness that you’d expect from an alcoholic coke fiend with a GG Allin complex and a fetish for dwarves.
Jesus. What more do you want? Blood?
Oh, there was some of that as well.
Andy Capper
By song three, Dave Catching’s amp has blown up and Molly Maguire’s bass has started to sound like a broken trumpet (trust me). The technical problems don’t seem to bother Oliveri one bit though – he’s too busy serenading a silicon breast implant, freshly plucked from the front of the red chiffon cocktail dress he chose to wear for tonight’s soiree. He’s also wearing a wig that makes him look like one of the girls you used to see hanging around at King’s Cross station before they started building the Eurostar tunnel and they all got moved down the road into the housing estates of Kentish Town.
"I’m the ugliest girl you’d ever want to fuck! So fuck me", he announces before they blunder into another mish-mash of punk, drug rock and psychedelic mess - the chaos barely held together by drummer Brant Bjork, the man who drummed in '90s stoner rock behemoths Kyuss with Oliveri.
As well as all the slightly ropey but entertaining Mondo Generator songs, we also get Nick’s best Queens Of The Stone Age tunes – ‘I’m Gonna Leave You’, ‘Tension Head’ – a cover of Black Flag’s 'Jealous Again' and an old Kyuss classic ‘Allen’s Wrench’. They’re all performed with the precision and dedication to musical correctness that you’d expect from an alcoholic coke fiend with a GG Allin complex and a fetish for dwarves.
Jesus. What more do you want? Blood?
Oh, there was some of that as well.
Andy Capper
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