HEALTH HAVE PISSED OFF THE HIPSTERS
If you’d turned up at East Hollywood’s Il Corral club on a Monday night in 2005, you would have witnessed carnage. A fixture on LA’s underground noise and experimental scene, its crowds were as unpredictable, loud and aggressive as the bands onstage.
“There was a rope swing in the middle of the show floor, that was connected to a rafter on the ceiling,” remembers Health frontman Jacob Duzsik, who played there. “And when things would really heat up, someone would just go and stand on a seven-foot window ledge, and then Tarzan-swing into the circle-pit and double-kick people in the back. It was like Mad Max.”
Illegal shows took place in squats, where people would play ‘free noise’ – improvisational compositions, sometimes bolstered by circuit-bent instruments. It was a far cry from the more arty, serious noise scenes in New York and London, says Jacob, and it was only a matter of time before the rest of the world
