Mortal Kombat
Does anyone remember playing Mortal Kombat as a child? Man, I used to LOVE that video game. I remember the arcade version of it used to be at the cinema in Invercargill, so whenever us rats were well behaved enough to be treated to the movies we would play Mortal Kombat for hours.
Now, my arcade gaming style is what I like to call “the thrasher” - I thrash all of the buttons at once, thrust the joy stick, bounce about, block and hope for the best. Most ”actual gamers” despise the “thrasher because apparently it takes no skill to be a thrasher and is just plain annoying. (I prefer the term thrasher because it doesn’t have the bad connotations that the term “button-masher” or “masher” has.) Remember Raiden, Kano, Subzero and Scorpian? Boy those were the days. I was a Raiden or Subzero girl myself.. right, left, down, right Y BOOM! Fatality. I am also a big big fan of Sindell.
Anyways the point of all of this Mortal Kombat talk is: Last Saturday I went to Tonice and saw Baraka and The Finnish Hims (get it? nice ay! perhaps hymns?)- for those who are Old School Mortal Kombat Fans and don’t know who Baraka is- that’s him with the blades in the above picture.
The gig was perhaps as Close to a Biff Merchants reincarnate as you could hope for, with noise coming (in various places) from four former members of The Biffs, including a wonderful cover of Tear Drop from Andy Strait, as well as some Alizarin Lizard covers (a band also composed of former members of The Biffs). Check out some Baraka and The Finnish Hims songs here http://www.box.net/qualmspsalmsandfinishhims.
Baraka and The Finnish Hims will be playing at The Cook tonight along side Tono and The Finance Company (click here for an article on Tono and co) and Sex With Bowie. $10 at the door, doors at 8:30pm.
On a last note- its so nice to see bars in Dunedin broadening their horizons, with live gigs being played throughout the city nowadays- not just at the usual ”underground” haunts. I’ll be honest- I am nervous about going to upstairs cook for a gig- my memories of upstairs cook involve first year inter (and intra) hall grind fests. Apparently back in the day the Cook was massive for live gigs, and has hosted some of Dunedins most well-respected names- so the revitalising of those glory days will be a welcome change from said “grind-fests”.
Also, tonight there is a free circus at Sammy’s from 7-9:30. All ages. Should be excellent
