Par : FrF.Kmeron, 20-02-2009 - 15:10
Tags : bota - botanique - Concert - Gig - maloke - midi mighty moe - puppet - puppetmastaz

Now that I’m up to date with my pictures (yeah, only 5 days behind the actual event did I posted the pictures… ewwwww), maybe I can start blogging again no? or yes, or not, or maybe… not enough time… as usual.. But enough to talk about the concert from the Puppetmastaz I saw @Botanique in Brussels. Puppetmastaz are actually.. errr.. puppets (doh!) who are on stage hip-hoping on an electro music… Oh yeah.. it sounds weird, but it’s the whole deal you have to take, you will actually see puppets fighting, singing, riming, flowing, an impressive gig for the beginning of this year!!

I heard for the first time about the Puppetmastaz like 4 or 5 years ago, at that time, I was buying « Trax » (yes yes, buying a monthly issue, papermade, the whole shabang!), That was my pre-Uk-Irish period, and I was hearing wayyy more electro than now (I said electro, not techno.. Meaning listening to stuff like Laurent Garnier, Miss Kittin etc etc), and I saw an article about those puppets that where giving a message while MCing on stage… thought it was weird, but heard an album, and was actually really nice and fun!

Then a couple of years ago came my work on the French Studio in Luxembourg on « 9″ (I urge you to go and see the trailer if you haven’t yet). There, Will (a damn good animator, responsible for a part of « Burning Safari« ) wanted to go and see the Puppetz as they were coming for a gig in Luxembourg, obviously sold out :/ But well, the idea remained. Finally, last summer, at « Les Ardentes », a Music Festival in Liège -Belgium-, I saw the end of a set of the americano-germano-canadien Mc crew.. And that was quiet something!!!

Yeah, I saw the end, because, before that, was playing « The Kills », and this time, I had my Daddy Camera with me, so I was able to shoot really nice photos of this gig, and at the same time was starting the puppetmastaz… I had to make a choice. Months later, I don’t regret, because I was able to see them this week « in a whole gig ».

So, what can puppets live can look like. First the stage, a 1,60meters high board with a hughe « puppetmastaz » on it. No supporting Act, and then, comes the deep bass. This gig is actually at the « Orangerie », the biggest room of the « Botanique » in Brussels (the one where I saw Yoav a couple of Months back), it’s about 300 people at the most, but SoldOut nonetheless. And here comes on stage Midi mighty Moe, a red Worm, with a destroyed Voice.

And here we were, the soul purpose of the puppetz. Deliver a message to the Humans. Join the movement, Revolution is coming, Puppetz time is close, bring on the Puppetz Nation. (i’m sure that now I’m probably filed by the FBI for words like « movement, revolution, nation » no? :p ). And that’s what’s just great about this crew. Yes, music & lyrics are great, but they just put it in a rhetorical way that just make you think a little bit.

They keep explaining how puppets will soon be all over, and so be aware of that Humans. But behind that, as long as the show is going forward (and people jumping on it as well), the message is clear, even Puppets who have at the beginning a more « democratic » way to do things, finally gets into a military tyrannic regime. And that’s where it’s great. Where they stop and say « c’mon, ur not gonna use bombs, ur turning into a Human here ».

And so it’s just a lot of fun! A teddy bear chasing Mr Maloke with a Chainsaw, the 1st puppet in Space, loads of little scenes like that. But in the end, they are telling ourselves that they are puppets, and they know it, but just think a little bit about all of that. Now, I can’t promess I won’t see them again, because puppeting while singing is just harshly difficult, for that, a lot of respect. But it’s just a whole lotta fun. 2 puppets on stage. One is a dog « everyone makes woooof wooooof » the crowd ‘wooof wooof ». The other is.. a fluffy stuff « na na na dude, everybody makes meaaaoooooowwww » « meaaaaooowww ». And starts an « old school » tarck, midi mighty moe… and the place went crazzzzyyyy… (sound is loud, but worth going to hear at the 4th minute to see the interaction with the audience)

Congrats to the puppet nation representant in the place as well (Puppetmastaz encourage people to come in with a Puppet, and there was like 5 ot 6 in the audience… I should have taken loooping :/  ). Well, the best is to see them live, ’cause they are touring a lot, especially in France, but damn it it’s good, we laughed, we sang, we moved! But there’s one who’s talking way too fast even for me.. I swear.. I understood some words that sounded like English, but gosh it was fast

The Guys even cam 3 time in front of the stage without the puppets, the rumor has it it’s not that often, so we were pretty glad this happend and even without the puppets, they are kinda jumping all around, wig on the head, sunglasses, scientific blouse ^^

Thanks @Carlo for enabling me to go there even if it was soldout, really appreciated!!!!. And then, I received a call, a sweet, nice, unexpected call. Someone in an other gig, I wasn’t there to see this other artist, but for a few minutes I was standing in that other gig place with that person. I was actually sat in the atrium part of the Botanique, eye closed, just hearing, listening, appreciating the music as much as the attention. Not much else to say… or so much more…

All the pictures can be seen in HiRes on Flickr as usual!

In my hears : Ayo -Piece of Joy-  ♫ « what can i do what can i say to make you happy again ? /what can i sing what can i bring to make you smile ? /what does it take for me to take these tears away from you ? /maybe i can give you a piece of my joy…. my joy« ♫

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