Saturday's all ages show started off with the eagerly awaited return of Better than a Poke in the Eye. With a fist full of new tunes 'BTAPITE' came out swinging playing to an enthusiastic crowd of crazy eye poking supporters, many of them sporting trendy Poke in the Eye merchandise.

Los Capitanes took the stage with drummer swapping antics-a-go-go and skatalite tributes-a-plenty-plenty. For an afternoon the crowd certainly did go quite mental, after only a few songs the shirts began to fly as a topless crowd ebbed and surged in a sweaty half naked frenzy of skanking and moshing. It wasn't long before ska guru's the Porkers finally took the stage, proving not only is ska not dead but that it is in fact it is barely even injured. The young crowd took easily to the Porkers and skanked verily and merrily.

AT 8:30 that night, Final Warning took the stage and once again delivered a tight set of hard hitting political ska driving the growing crowd into a furious entanglement of flailing arms and legs.

Thanks to everyone who came along and supported the bands and especially those who came to both shows, Saturday was a complete success and we have only youse to thank. Los Cap will be returning to a venue near you soon enough so keep your ears and eyes open for our next gig details...

Park live 05 went into over drive on Australian Day with Australians-a-plenty flocking to glebe park to skank openly and proudly all in the name of skanking openly and proudly. Big word up on the flip side to fill in Los Cap drummer Jimi Moore who played like a man possessed the whole way through the set proving that once and for all the best drummers are those possessed by the Devil and or/ evil Jesus. Muchos thanks must go to Karen and her gang of merry men* for organising the event, a good time was had by all, especially the guy who rushed the stage and flopped out some shirtless free style rap (Is there any other kind??).

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Los Cap will be performing at 4:30pm next Wednesday in Glebe Park as a part of the Park Live 05 Australia Day Festival. Now obviously because its the Australia Day Festival anyone who doesn't come clearly isn't Australian and will be sent to Woomera to think about what it means to be an Australian. So to all you terrorist non Australians who don't come to Glebe Park and who aren't Australian, keep an ear out on the hand made ham radio you smuggled into the detention centre and you might be lucky enough to hear some Los Cap shenanigans going down on FM104.7 earlier in the day.

In Other radio related news, Los Cap CDs will soon be available to purchase at 2XX HQ in civic, so keep your ears peeled for Los Cap Ska, coming to an airwave near YOU.

Word to all the dope ass homies who made it to the show on Friday night. I'm sure that everyone who went will agree that all the bands definitely turned it on something dead tough and showed everyone a really top time. A heck of a lot of well rude skanking went down all in the name of charity; props go to Andrew for organising the event and raising a truck load of money for the tsunami disaster.

Unfortunately this Friday's gig will NOT be an all ages event. Massive apologies to all the underage rude boys and girls, rest assured we'll be cracking out some more underage stuff real soon including the massive Australia Day festival in Glebe Park.

Los Capitanes will be playing at the Ground Floor next Friday night along side 104 band Me the Conqueror, Penguin and Pot Belly Champs Static Empire to raise money for the Tsunami disaster. We're told that the event is being covered on local television and a massive new sound system is being brought in especially, so come along and see the best live music Canberra has to offer and support this awesome cause. Check the gig guide for more info about Friday as well as some new up coming gigs.

Well now its the year 2005 (year of the shaved llama), which means that basically anything that happened last year is SO last year and obviously anything happening this year is SO this year. As a result Los Capitanes has decided that the only way to stay hip and/or happening is to party like its 2006. So strap yourselves in for another year of manking (manic-skanking) and Absinth fuelled los cap shenanigans, the ska insurrection is at hand!