Just a little bit about us…
The Plastic Bastards came together from two out-of-work actors. One was a musician, and the other a sound engineer. They were looking for an outlet for their extremely askew sense of musical humor. They were originally intended to be just a ‘studio band’ using a tascam 4 track porta-one studio to make their music.
Then the music industry really pissed them the fuck off!
With such manufactured crap as Milli Vanilli and The New Kids On The Block. They decided to go live (more or less).
These boy bands would lip-synch to their own voices and pretend to play instruments ‘live’ on stage. And some (cough cough Milli Vanilli) didn’t even actually sing their own songs. These fucks were making people pay large amounts of money to see a ‘live’ concert that was not even live. And in the latter case, was not even the actual artists performing. What a damn rip-off! So The Plastic Bastards decided to split the difference with a reasonable honest alternative. They would actually sing live with their own voices to taped music they made themselves. And not pretend to play fake instruments on stage! At a cheap price…
Going balls out.
The Bastards decided to throw video presentation into the mix by combining live-action with filmed, interactive video. Their stage show became a hybrid of live concert and one long live interactive music video, from beginning to end. The entire show featured The Plastic Bastards live on stage and The Plastic Bastards not live on video. The video versions of themselves provided backup vocals, bizarre antics, humorous segue ways, and interactive conversation between their live selves. A very loose esoteric storyline was threaded throughout the concert. Often described as “The Monkeys on bad acid”, “Bubblegum Punk”, “Uneasy Listening”, or, as some would have it… “A Hot Mess”.
Some of the most common questions asked of The Plastic Bastards are: “Who are your musical inspirations“, “Are you taking medication for that”, “What have your boys been smoking”, and “What the fuck is wrong with you”.
