As soon as I saw the Mosrite bass leaning onstage and the drumhead painted with cartoon letters spelling ‘DEATH’ I said to my concertgoing companion “Looks like we’re in for some Ramones action” and sure enough, two songs before the end came the by-the-numbers cover of “Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World.” The Diana Death Band was a standard rock three-piece just a notch shy of achieving actual propulsion. For some reason it’s never a good sign when women get up onstage and yell “Are you ready to rock the fuck out?” Show me, don’t tell me; I mean, Ruyter Suys she wasn’t. Diana Death played the standard rock chick shtick to the hilt, but there just wasn’t enough going on to hold my attention a lot of the time. 4/4 drumming was nice and solid, bass pretty much just held down the root all night, guitar could have been a touch louder, vocals were pretty standard rock chick fare, songwriting showed touches of flair that were promising. They didn’t ever really “rock the fuck out,” unfortunately — upping the tempo a couple of notches would definitely help a lot of the tunes, and maybe stepping outside the ‘basic rock riffs 101′ songbook too — but it was a fairly solid set of retro-rock action. Maybe worth checking back in on in a year or so.
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