{"id":3244,"date":"2011-12-16T15:19:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T19:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punkoutlaw.com\/po09\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2011-12-16T16:05:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T20:05:29","slug":"normandi-blue-rocks-whittier-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/2011\/12\/normandi-blue-rocks-whittier-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Normandie Blue Rocks Whittier, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve followed us for a while, you may remember waaaayyyy back in 2006 or 07 we were covering a somewhat legendary band called &#8220;Calavera&#8221; who had been one of the first Latino Psychobilly bands around, usually splitting their time between LA and Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p>In case you forgot or very likely never saw it, below is a video we did on the band back in those days.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n34H_397OeI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Shortly after this interview aired on the national TV show I was producing back then &#8220;American Latino TV&#8221; the band went on hiatus and I had largely lost touch with them. But from time to time I&#8217;d catch up with Alex Blue, the guitarist for the band, who sent an encouraging email when I had gotten robbed in Buenos Aires in 2010 and was pretty down about the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now I&#8217;m spending some time in LA and taking the opportunity to hit up the psychobilly\/punk events going on and one such event went on last Sunday night out in Whittier, CA a suburb of Los Angeles. Punk Outlaw was a presenting sponsor&#8230; but you&#8217;d never know it from the limited exposure we got (long story I won&#8217;t bore you with&#8230;at least not now), but it didn&#8217;t really matter as the crowd was super light.<\/p>\n<p>But the good thing about a light crowd is you at least get to interact one on one with the people and we met some super cool cats who I sure hope to run into down the road and some other events. A few fine folks bought the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.punktologycd.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Punktology Vol. 1 &#8211; Free Cuba Now! CD<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and Punk Outlaw Tanks.<\/p>\n<p>Mucho appreciated guys.. hope you enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>The other good thing about the evening was the bands were pretty tight, at least the ones we saw. It opened with <strong>Psycho Madbatz <\/strong>playing some old school psychobilly fronted by a petite but but bad ass female on the vocals who let it rip.<\/p>\n<p>Then to my pleasant surprise, next up was Alex Blue&#8217;s new band <strong>&#8220;Normandie Blue&#8221;<\/strong>. Normandie Blue is more straight ahead punk music with three guitars blaring over Alex&#8217;s vocals. It&#8217;s loud, it&#8217;s raucous and I loved it. You can tell Alex has had some time under his belt on stage, because he performed like a pro despite the low turnout.<\/p>\n<p>The band seemed to give it their all and they ended the night with some cool spin on a couple of covers after cranking through some kick ass original material. Alex has promised me a CD and I can&#8217;t wait to hear these guys with some good sound mixing where I can make out the vocals and lyrics better but I&#8217;m expecting big things. And I think you might be hearing big things from Normandie Blue in the future.<\/p>\n<p>And who knows? A possible Calavera reunion maybe? Well, we can all hope. That band really rocked man.. Spanish or English didn&#8217;t matter, I dug them a lot and you can be sure if they do reunite, I&#8217;ll be doing my best to cover it for you guys.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the pics from the Sage Nightclub in Whittier last weekend below.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3244 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/2011\/12\/normandi-blue-rocks-whittier-ca\/383880_323282071023803_100000260382844_1296108_1050970775_n\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/383880_323282071023803_100000260382844_1296108_1050970775_n-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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