It was fantastic to be on our much COVID delayed East German road trip that finally brought us back to Berlin, via Leipzig and Dresden. It was a double pleasure schedule our travels such that we could have the opportunity to see the wonderful Ruts DC for a third time in the equally wonderful S036 club in the district of Kreuzburg in the company of mates, Nick and Steve.
As usual when Ruts DC are in town I contacted Leigh to try to interest him in a beer. A while later he was waiting outside the venue for Gunta and I and we got to enjoy the band’s sound check which is easy to forego a beer for! Sound tweeked and sorted to the band’s satisfaction, they headed to the hotel and we headed off to locate Nick and Steve.
The clock quickly rolled around to show time. We saw about half of the set by the second support, ‘More Kicks’, who sounded good and tight before the lights dimmed for Ruts DC.
The band played an energetic set at the expected urgent pace making a noise that belies the fact that there are just three musicians up there on the stage.
The good thing is that Ruts DC are still angry and railing against the inequalities that exist in this world. And I thank them for that. It’s just a shame that it is men in their sixties and seventies that are making all the noises of dissatisfaction. Where are the angry hordes of young people whose futures really are on the line? I have never know young people to be so disengaged in politics, at a time when there is so much to fight for and too many things are going in the wrong direction.
On that point is was good to see the S036 stance on the far right spelled out so clearly on each and every wall. Such a contrast to tome of the stuff we had seen on walls in other cities earlier in the week!
‘This music must destroy’… they said it!
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