Live performance review from Heavy Summer: Hotter Than Hell:
1. 你老母去踢波
2. 將軍澳五花腩
3. 搭地鐵疑似俾靚女抽水
4. 愛與痛的邊緣 (cover: Faye Wong 王菲）
5. Teenage Neurosis
6. Like A Rolling Joke
7. Girl Upstairs
8. 50路A0骨灰龕
Bare Bay’s song titles immediately drew laughs from the crowd, but beneath the humour lay a surprisingly accomplished pop-punk trio. Their set was a love letter to the genre’s early-2000s golden age, packed with breakneck tempos, big choruses and lots of silliness.
Guitarist/vocalist 月巴came in rather flat on opener 你老母去踢, causing a certain amount of wincing and side-eye, but things quickly stabilised as his nerves dissipated. 將軍澳五花腩 leaned into mid-2000s indie-punk territory with shades of The Cribs running through its melody and vocal delivery. By 搭地鐵疑似俾靚女抽水, the Green Day influences were impossible to miss – it was a very Dookie-era track, driven forward by drummer 阿豪’s tireless performance.
A brilliant pop-punk reworking of Faye Wong’s 愛與痛的邊緣 arrived mid-set. 月巴sounded completely at home charging through the lyrics, while bassist 阿麥 supplied a groove that elevated the material.
Humour remained central throughout. Before Like a Rolling Joke, the band joked that it had been written when 月巴was 16 and desperately wanted to lose his virginity, prompting plenty of laughter. A punter, who was inexplicably wearing a balaclava, shouted for a circle pit, and the band agreed by encouraging one. Guest guitarist Charlie Pun added a more rhythmic dirge to the latter half of the set, particularly on Girl Upstairs and the furious closer 50路A0骨灰龕.
The finale exploded into ska-punk chaos, with bobbling bass, frantic fretwork and a rapidly intensifying pit. Bare Bay may not be reinventing the genre, but they delivered one of the evening’s most entertaining sets.
-El Jay
