Live music review: Dead Coats video release with Transy Warhol and Animals on TV
Last Friday at Austin’s Kickbutt Coffee off Airport Boulevard, The Dead Coats released a music video for the lead single, ‘Fire Again’ from their album Big Wish (2021). Transy Warhol and Animals on TV provided support for the riotous, punk act.
First up was Transy Warhol. Band members Ruby del Mar, Adri Hullet, Simone Thomas, Loise Montalva, and Calliope Davishines came together to form the trans-femme post-punk band. Five or six friends of the band attempted to create a tiny moshpit on the small coffee house floor, including a fellow sporting a neon green mohawk, holding steadfast and unrelenting amidst kicking and shoving.
What screams anarchy more than challenging societal norms on gender? With song, “Real Girls” del Mar sings: “We won’t be what you asked for” with the perfect set up for a call and response from the lead guitar. I highly recommend checking out Transy Warhol, Sorry to the Pharmacists, an unapologetic, queer anthem. Davishines (drums) navigates changes in beat with ease while del Har delivers a disruptive stage presence. For fans of: the Dead Weather.
Next up, a short fellow with shaggy hair and a brocade jacket bounded on stage. For those who are into the talk-sing style of Spoon and Beck, check out “De Vil”. Animals on TV featuring Hogan on vocals witnessed the front man as he sauntered all over the stage, stealing hats from his guitarist, Gabe Posada. Animals on TV delivered a pop-music inspired break between Transy Warhol and the Dead Coats closing set.
Last up, The Dead Coats. Nominated for Austin Chronicle’s Best in Rock category (they’re also on our Best Austin Albums of 2020 list), The Dead Coats upped the ante before the awards on March 8 by releasing their music video, “Fire Again”. The introduction to the new clip kicks off with a parent celebrating her child’s birthday. As the mother remains faceless to the camera, she asks “Do you like your presents?”. “Is it Dead Coats?”, he asks. As he blows out his birthday cake candle, he is in his fantasy, as the sole attendee at a Dead Coats concert, transported away from nonsensical mimes and accordion players.
Directed by prolific Austin photographer, Ismael Quintanilla, and produced by Zero Hour ATX and Dissent Records, “Fire Again” brings you into the weird and vibrant minds of The Dead Coats by way of home-video-bad-porno. Featuring the band, in a cavalcade of costumes, granting one Big Wish for a punk rocker by blasting onto a stage and playing a personal concert.
For fans of Siouxsie Sioux and the Banshees, punk-fatale Lauren Warner wails into the microphone, staring dead at the camera: “You always push too hard when you should give in”. Somehow, the birthday boy has conjured up a mohawk (an art I will never understand) and the plot line is seemingly lost. Joshua Jones matches Warner’s punk-garage energy during the chorus as she fires off short bursts of ammunition: “You always give…. Much too much… then you give me… all your love.”
The Dead Coats wanted to play at Kick Butt Coffee because “that’s where we got our start”, claims Warner.
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