Exclusive I’ll Eat Your Face DVD Preview

Posted on 28th Aug 09 by Nay | 8

Beer, beer, beer, kebabs, beer, beer, Mariachi hats, beer, aprons, beer, punters, beer, cider, beer, slaps, beer, cross-dressing, beer, cocks, beer, cocks, beer, arses, tits, guns, beer, hosiery, beer, punters, sunglasses, beer, cars, Cannibal Corpse, beer, birthmarks, beer, wine, beer, curly haired men, guitars and drums: you’ll need Polo mints after 20 minutes of filthy laughs with I’ll Eat Your Face.

A band who appreciate the need for humour, along with realising that the best way to build an interest in your band is to actually be interesting, I’ll Eat Your Face make a DVD return with Clit 2: The Clitenning and prove they could certainly never be described as boring. Except perhaps in the drilling sense – puncturing the underground scene like the Large Hard-on Collider.
Check out the video below, a sneak peak of exclusive extra footage that didn’t make it to Clit 2. Shot on a Handicam by Barrytron and The Boy over a period of months, The Clitenning is a glimpse of them at their very best; groaning, vomiting, roaring, seducing and shooting themselves in the feet as far as future prospects go. They know they’ll never make the finals of The Rose of Tralee and so macho bravado abounds; they simply must have regular liver transplants to cope with all that intoxication. Yet you get the sense that it’s not booze talking, this Cork duo are simply mad fuckers, all of the time (as you can read below in our sober tour series when Mick McGrath-Bryan followed them to Holland earlier this year).

Grindcore is hardly a lucrative scene in Ireland as music fans tend to prefer songs that last more than a minute odd: at Clit 2‘s launch party there were no less than 25 songs crammed into one set. With names like Die Shithead, Fucksticks and Haunted Cunt they’ll never make Dave Fanning’s Top 50 and when your fella’s fucked off with the fish, there won’t be much catharsis in a barrage of blast beats. Or so you’d think. Fact is, a few cold beers, your best mate and IEYF are just the tonic for the music blues. Not that there isn’t a sassy buzz from stuffing your blouse with socks while hoovering the gaff with Queen blaring, especially if you’re not normally used to wearing a bra.

Musically, the DVD features snippets and bursts of their songs but it would fall into a documentary rather than performance category. The band seem to realise that more than MySpace is needed to keep the profile up, especially when gigs are bound to a rigid genre-specific system that doesn’t exactly leave the door open for new fans. So like a good DIY band, they tape their exploits in the hope you’ll pop it on when you roll in from the pub with your mates and fancy a laugh while your chips are still hot. In fact they probably hope for more, that you’ll guffaw and grope, choke and drag yourselves out to the next gig then for a big “Wahey!”
Naturally there’s live footage; count the costume changes and raucous cheers from the audience. The soundtrack pins down just a hint of the thrumming violence into scenes to make you wish they hadn’t cut so soon. There’s no effort to provide a thought-provoking glimpse into the creative manifesto or technicalities of the band other than some funny clips from the studio, or to show off how popular they are, although there are many different faces and local bands involved like Elk, Hope Is Noise and Jezery. Where some musicians might see an opportunity to bemoan a lack of money or support for unsigned bands, I’ll Eat Your Face see a golden chance to present the unflinching personalities that built up Life Destroyer and Now That’s What I Call Manual Strangulation. They’re not a band working hard to break the big time; they’re a hard-drinking band working a path through fat robotic women.

Clit 2: The Clitenning is available from the band or at a gig near you soon.

myspace.com/IllEatYourFaceIreland

On The Road with I’ll Eat Your Face: 1, 2, 3

Thanks to the folks at www.Mixtape.ie for hosting the video…check em out!

Tags: Barrytron, clit 2: the clitenning, Elk, Fat Box Life Destroyer, I'll Eat Your Face, IEYF, Jezery, Now That's What I Call Manual Strangulation, The boy

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