Last night I ventured out to a punk show way out in Mostoles, which is more or less at the very end of the metro, SW of town. The show is billed as alternative fiestas or Mostoles, because I believe there are some concerts for normals happening now too. But….the show was cool. Mostly I wanted to go and see Kiste Ovariko (Ovarian Cyst) because I had seen something about them and they are all ladies and pretty young too. They were playing when I got there, and were pretty good. They were being loud and yelling at the audience and played a cover of “Soy Lesbiana” (I don’t know whose song that is, ?). Pretty excellent. Then the second band played and that was fine except that at one point they brought out a saxophone. In the past I’ve taken a pretty hardline stance against the sax, but it was starting to relax, that is until last night. I mean it wasn’t bad but would’ve been better without. Then Etxando Mierda played, they bill themselves as punk-hardcore. I also thought they were pretty good – the combo of female and male vocals was rad.
What else….the space, La Casika, was awesome. Like a lot of the social centers in Madrid, it is a squat. There was a building there that looked pretty good, I didn’t go in. The show was on a stage in a large
patio/parking-type area. There was a bar and some trees – really nice. Also cool was the fact that they had a variety of things including diners and juice for sale at the bar and not just beer. The walls were all painted with different things, including the typical stencils but also some really nice spray paint murals. I didn’t really talk to anyone, still working up to it, but one kid did tell me that I missed the best band, which apparently is the Subestimados (the oi! band on the bill).
One thing that is pretty big in the punk scene here, from the looks of it is anti-fascist stuff. There was a
pretty strong contigent of skins at the show and several song were dedicated to this kid, Carlos Palomino 
that was killed by Nazis last year. He was attacked in a metro station and died of his injuries, another person he as with was also severely injured. There is apparently a growing group of young Nazi’s in Madrid, they use the recent increases in immigration here as a way of getting permission to have marches and rallies. So, for example, the big mural behind the stage was centered around a portrait of Carlos (and some other folks) and “BLOOD FOR BLOOD”. Also, lots of gear for sale with the logo of the Mostoles antifascist group, which happens to be brass knuckles. Other than that the punk were the punks – the was a large number of long, not charged mohawks, especially on ladies. Overall, I was really glad I went, even when it took an hour and a half to get home.
