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PAIN TEENS
On a foggy Saturday night in mid-December, the Houston-based Pain Teens performed
at the newly established Bluebird Lounge on Jefferson Street. Original paintings
covered the walls of the lounge. USL students Barrett Langlinais, CeCe Cole, Sidney
Fontenot, and Kirk Bustamante painted some of them. Other Lafayette artists painted
the rest.
Bubba Daddy, a four-man band comprised of current and former USL students opened for
the Pain Teens. After Bubba Daddy concluded their part of the show, a group calling
itself Cathocism came onto the stage. It put on an S & M show highlighted by a preacher,
fire eaters, and whip toters. Two members of the group laid on a bed of nails and had
a brick broken on them, breaking flesh.
Pain Teens drummer Frank Garymartin, guitarist Scott Ayers, and bassist Kirk Carr went
on stage and began to play as female lead singer Bliss Blood proclaimed from backstage,
"I'm ready." Blood, dressed in a black body suit and army boots, staggered around the
stage holding a Beck's beer throughout the 13-song set. The top of her outfit came off
about halfway through the concert, exposing her black brassiere.
The Pain Teens' music revolves around harsh realities of today's society. These are no
glam rockers, and their music attacks issues other artists steer away from like rape,
serial killers, and morbid feelings. Before the show, Blood said the group's song,
"Shallow Hole," was number one in Croatia for three weeks.
The Pain Teens played until they were told they had to quit near midnight. The crowd
left exasperated. The Lafayette show was the group's only scheduled concert in
Louisiana. According to Bliss, a phone call was all it took to get them here. "People
are into us more here than in Baton Rouge or New Orleans," said Blood. "We'll be back.
Lafayette's cool, I like it here." Shortly after the Pain Teens concert, rumors spread
that the lounge would not be housing any more concerts. That left the future of live
alternative music in Lafayette in doubt. - by Todd Kleinpeter
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