Extra! Extra! Canterbury invaded by industrial metal band Revulsion!
Late last week, the normal serenity of historical Canterbury was slightly rocked! Legendary music venue The Beer Cart Arms became host to the equally legendary Tom Arnold’s Revulsion. This one-man, electronic metal band performed an exclusive first ever gig to a barely controllable small to medium sized crowd. Whilst this reporter was not actually there, the rumours of audience whooping, clapping and head-nodding have travelled far and wide. Arnold himself owned the “mother-fucking” stage. Strutting his stuff, he successfully pulled off pose after pose whilst sporting unquestionably fashionable camouflage slacks.
After the gig fans rejoiced in experiencing what one onlooker branded “a sonic onslaught of electric death”. Another was heard to have said it was “alright” and a third commenting that “the beer in here is quite cheap”.
Whilst we were unable to get any formal comment from the band, a group email was sent to Revulsion’s most hardcore fans. A direct quote from the email read:
“People seemed to be really positive about the thing afterwards but I tend to take those compliments with a pinch of salt coz people arnt exactly gonna say ‘ya crap!’ to you are they? 
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No official website has been set up yet, but this reporter believes if every gig is this hectic, it’ll only be a matter of decades before people start paying attention to the Arnold sound. Amen to that.
N.B. Whilst this article is written in good humour I really am impressed with Tom and his music. It is actually quite clever, catchy and is overflowing with potential. Shockingly, I kid you not.
January 24th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
“Venue has currently lost its public entertainment licence until November 24th”
Genius.
That’s a hadouken t-shirt Tom’s sporting. You never know when you’ll need those Street Fighter 2 moves, best to have them with you always.
January 24th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
Ah, that’s because one of Tom’s songs is called Dragon Punch and he samples the hadouken noise on the track. It’s wicked. Chorus goes “and she hits me with a dragon punch yeah! She hits me with a dragon punch yeah!” etc.
Relating his emotional anguish to the violence on a computer game. Post modern genius!
January 24th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
haha! I knew someone out there would appreciate the t-shirt. Well spotted Pete. I am reliably informed that the japanese writing is ‘Hadoken’ in the native tongue. Marsh, thanks tons for the support. Please tell me when you think potential is starting to be fully realised. Nice 1 u main man.
January 24th, 2006 at 11:02 pm
For a minute there, I thought you’d written “fully released”. That would have been funny…
Just me then?
January 25th, 2006 at 10:10 am
I will not fall for your ruse!
Shoryuken is a dragon punch. Hadoken is a fireball.
Please remember I have an honours degree in console fighting games. Officially it was computer science, but I spent more time spent playing sf2 and vf2 than studying.
January 25th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
Heard about the forthcoming computer games exhibition at the Science Museum? That’s gonna be sweet. I spent a whole day at a similar one in the Barbican a few years back.
But don’t you just hate it when people call them ‘video’ games?
January 26th, 2006 at 11:55 am
Let’s go. I love playing ‘video games’ whilst drinking fizzy pop before going to the pictures.
Anyway, seriously, let’s go. PS3! YEAH.
January 27th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
Hi Pete,
woh, i never intended any deception there. i am perfectly aware that the move used as a metaphor in the song is not the same move displayed on the shirt. ‘She hits me with a Fireball?’ no thanks! i might as well cover the theme tune to Fireball XL5. There is simply meant to be a common theme there.
ps: what do you think of the modded pc?
and yes will, i agree, since when have video games ever had anything to do with a video?
July 5th, 2006 at 11:14 am
Having checked out his MySpace I am 90% sure I saw that Keyenstock performance in 2001. My girlfriend was at UKC at the time and she used to live in Keynes. We went to a couple of Keyenstocks and I clearly remember this guy getting up with a drum machine and guitar early in the afternoon of one of them, it was a hot sunny day and we were all sitting on the grass. We all thought he was good, very passionate!
Does this sound right?
July 6th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
That’s the guy. Most probably. I’ll let him know about this post and he can detail me up. I missed it, but in all honesty it must have been pretty terrible. 10/10 for passion though!
July 6th, 2006 at 8:25 pm
Also, my girlfriend at the time was in UKC and lived in Darwin Hall. Bizarrely, we could have been drinking in the same pubs / bars without even knowing.
July 7th, 2006 at 10:53 am
That is weird! Yeah let him know this is cool! I haven’t been to Canterbury for years I used to be there every weekend!
I thought it was alright it was fucking rock and roll anyway, better than some other bands doing an incredibly camp version of ‘Whole lotta love’ by Led Zep. See if he remembers that though that might have been a different Keynestock?
I think it was the same one, they were on first and the singer swapped guitars with the guitairsit to play the solo - GAY! We mocked him greatly! I was with a guy called Jack who used to play in the Grits although they weren’t together at that point and I never saw them play.
Anyway, the power of coincidence huh?
November 30th, 2011 at 8:04 am
The Great Barrier Reef is situated about 30km off Cairns. Cairns has some top quality rainforest on offer.