A Review of a DS Show in Deepest, Darkest Manhattan
Writer: Toxic Dan Arky in New York Planet Newspaper - Oct 1992

2OOODS play the ABC No RIO in Manhattan, NY
Being the late working chump that I be, I was not able to make this early evening punk show before the first two bands had already played. I walked downstairs just as Humyn Sewage's last song ended and managed to see four seriously punked up manics thump out thier last note with a vengeance.

I could not, of course, miss Public Nuisance. They've been kicking out party punk/drunk, swillin' pogo fall-down music in a hard-drivin' '77 style for the past seven or eight years. As the Nuisance ripped through their familiar and welcome set, it became apparent to this old punk that several if not most of the squatters for whom this benefit was organised didn't venture downstairs to watch the band. This is a sad fact. Most bands break up or fade away before they even practice as many times as these boys have played these benefits for free, donating their talents to often forgetful punk-squatter anarcho-socializers.

Enough with these punx! Let's get to why we all came here tonight. 2000 D. S. (that's Dirty Squatters to the uninformed) is a British Punk band... and a crusty one at that. If there was any hint of missing bodies during Public Nuisance, 2000 D.S. left no doubt as to whom these punks came to see. Never in my life have I seen so many white people with dreadlocks falling down all over each other; with all the action of the swirling pit, the chanting vocals of lead throatist Greg (or Gary, I was too pissed to remember) and all those that joined him with their throaty expulsions of less than air; the basement of this lovely gathering place developed quite a stink.

A sweaty, crusty, dirty, noisy, smelly, bloody mess is what it was.

Even after having drank several pints of snakebite at Mona's with these guys I still don't remember their names, imagine that, but this band seriously impressed me. With plenty of blub-blubs and wah-wahs coming from bass and guitar respectively and lots of "GRRRR" coming from both, the music swirled around the frantic drumming of the lead singer's brother (both bros. freshly bald after a spot of bother with those dreaded little creepy-crawlies) into a thumping tribal complaint with the urgency of the determined. This band put on one of the best grinding harcore shows I've seen in months.

2000 D.S. will be playing a couple more gigs in the city (including a C-Squat benefit on Oct 30 and ABC No Rio on Oct 31); then they will move on to some other rat-infested hole. Check them out. Some words to the wise: wear your steel toes and please support your local Punk Rock bands.

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