Friday 22 March 2019

FIFI & THE MACH III - Live @ The Underground Vol. 27 ~ 8.6.2002 + Vol.70~28.10.2003


FIFI AND THE MACH III are/were one of the hottest punk bands from Japan, founded 1983 in Kita Kyushu as the Mach III. Just at this time Fifi became pregnant, must have to stop and the rest of the band had to continue with different singers, but since 1989 only Fifi sang and they changed the bandname to Fifi and the Mach III.

In 1990 they released a demo....and it even sold, preferably in Tokyo. The second demo then went to Kunio Yoshiwara of Barn Homes/1 + 2 Records, who gave a copy to Jeff Dahl and who then made sure that 1 + 2 Records signed them.
Nolly and Fifi remember…."at first we only talked about a single, but in the end we recorded 14 songs directly. We told him to pick the best, but Jeff decided to take them all and put them on an album"….called “Attack The Zombies”.

Over the next 12 years, they released another 3 Albums, 10 Singles/EPs and 3 Compilations.

They toured a lot and gained great reputation as a live band. In 2002 & 2003 Europe was their destination and in both years they visited the UNDERGROUND CLUB in Köln-Ehrenfeld, not without giving the people there what they want....loads of very fine punk rock bangers, somewhere between the RAMONES and Surf, varied and driving….with very cool female vocals…wild, loud and snotty. EXCELLENT!!!



A technical note:
The in total around 150 shows were recorded mainly through the soundboard, but, as usual in clubs of that size (around 300), guitars weren't put through the soundboard too loud as they come loud enough from the amplifiers.
MiTcH: "That might (compared with having been there that night) sound a bit lame and too voice-orientated, but in my opinion MUCH MUCH better than any audience recording.
By the way, ALL recordings were done with the band's permissions. NEVER was a show recorded without the bands' OK !
Most comments were like as long as you don't make money with it, it's fine for us".



*** All the credit is due to MiTcH uSeLeSs ***


FIFI & THE MACH III - Live @ The Underground Vol.27 (8.6.2002)     WAVE   320

FIFI & THE MACH III - Live @ The Underground Vol.70 (28.10.2003) WAVE   320

Enjoy!

1 comment:

  1. Thanks Pubbi andMiTcH uSeFul

    Nice to see activity in your blog

    I love Fifi!!!!!

    The 2 missing names of the track listing are:

    Angelfuck (The Misfits)
    Land of 1000 Dances

    Thanks again

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