As if hobnobbing with VJ Matt Pinfield at this year’s South By Southwest festival weren’t enough of an accomplishment for 2007, Vegas punk foursome The Objex recently completed a DIY 14-day, 12-gig tour of the U.K.
Beginning June 19, vocalist Felony Melony, guitarist Jim Nasty, bassist Aly 2X and drummer Joe Perv leapfrogged through Edinburgh, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Gloucester and more. “The Edinburgh and Gloucester crowds were awesome,” Perv offers as a highlight. “They were really into it; they’re not afraid to mosh. They were looking for what we gave them.” After playing the latter’s Hurricane festival with Goldblade, Perv proudly reports that the rockabilly veterans are now looking to complete a similar rotation in the United States.
“There were plenty of cold beers going around. I don’t drink, so I was driving,” Perv adds in regard to the band’s offstage antics. “I drove 2200 miles ... by default. Six of us and nine bags in the van. It was like Negativland; looking right when I needed to be looking left. No police to pull you over, but everywhere you go there’s speed cameras.”
Though a few problems sprang up, such as terrorist-spooked London officials making the band wait three hours before proceeding, and Nasty’s mutilated passport and Oregon DWI nearly preventing him from re-entering the U.S. via Canada, the new Area 108 regular-rotation additions returned stateside in time for New York City’s Afro-Punk Festival on July 5. “Next time we’ll just handle it legally,” Perv concludes of the group-travel legalities. “If we do it punk rock again we won’t mention we’re a band. We’ll just get off the plane separately. And hire a driver.”
Currently working on their new album, due out around the end of the year, The Objex will tour the Northwest through September.
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July 27, 10 p.m. Bunkhouse, 384-4536.