Radioactive Chicken Heads @ LICORICE PIZZA RECORDS 10-25-24
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Radioactive Chicken Heads Rocks the Night Away with FREE Shindig!
Punk cluckers the Radioactive Chicken Heads have decided to celebrate their thirty years together, with an anniversary show in where else Los Angeles, California in Studio City! The city not far from Universal Studios theme park, but that's not where these crazy chickens came for they wanted to party the night away during the spookiest time of the year Halloween time!
Friday October 25th 2024 was spent at LICORICE PIZZA RECORDS a vinyl shop and record label, with vinyl's, t-shirts, posters plus more, including a mini stage set-up. Hence where a crowd was lined up around 7PM with the doors opening after 7:30PM with the band playing from roughly 8PM to 9PM, meeting with the crowd afterwards. Taking snap shots, signing autographs and having a good time clucking about the show that had just happened.
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Which was just so much fun and free! The small record shop got full quite quickly, with fans of all ages, kids, teens, to adults, everyone there enjoyed the stage show, gimmicks, and good times thrown together, that everyone jumped around, banged their heads, and had a good old time one way or another. Such songs as "Bird Brain", "Liquid Fat", "I Eat Kids", "Killer Klownfish", "Pox", "Cluck at the Moon", and "RCH Fight Song" along with many others, rounding off to be quite the set list with 21 songs sung total!
Various characters within the chicken band including Frankenchicken, Rockin' Robbin, El Pollo Diablo, and even a robot chicken all made an appearance, making the show much more entertaining. Everyone gave applause and approval with cheers, chants, claps, and the like, making tonight's shindig quite a night to remember. All in all the Radioactive Chicken Heads bring it with creativity, live presence and entertainment galore with their poultry good clucks!
SETLIST:
1. Tales from the Croop
2. Atom Zombie Killer
3. Bird Brain
4. Frankenchicken
5. Black Sabbath/Deviled Egg
6. Headless Mike
7. Veg-o-Matic
8.Liquid Fat
9. I Eat Kids
10. Just for the Taste of It
11. Killer Klownfish
12. Wiccan Chicken
13. Pox
14. Cluck at the Moon
15. Pest Control
16. Rat Fink
17. Uncontrollable
18. RCH (Radioactive Chicken Heads) Fight Song
19. Mirror
ENCORE:
20. Joe and the Chicken Head
21. Cluck You!
Radioactive Chicken Heads' Carrot Top and Rockin' Robin Discusses New Music, Videos, Vinyl Releases and More!
RADIOACTIVE CHICKEN HEADS is a bunch of punks whose mutated likeness has caused some mishaps to create being's that are of the cluck kind and veggie kind. Since forming back in 1993, the band has gone on to release an array of content, albums, EP, demos, with playing shows, touring, as well as doing skirts, plays, TV pilot, and even getting into gaming. A couple of the members go on to discuss themselves, music, and future plans from here on out.
1. First off, introduce yourselves, tell me what is it that you do in Radioactive Chicken Heads?
Carrot Topp: Hey, this is Carrot Topp and I'm the lead vegetable of Radioactive Chicken Heads!
Rockin' Robin: Hi people, it's me, Rockin' Robin. I'm the Queen of the Coop.
2. You were originally formed under the namesake "Joe and the Chicken Heads" who was this "Joe" why the change from that to "Radioactive Chicken Heads"?
Carrot Topp: Joe was a farmer kid, who was the nephew of mad scientist, Dr. Kluckinstein. Joe named the band after himself but we due to artistic differences, we kicked him out and went out on our own as "The Chicken Heads." Once we started making a name for ourselves, the government cracked down on us and forced us to label ourselves "Radioactive Chicken Heads" due to the potentially harmful doses of radiation that we were emitting to our audiences.
3. How would you describe your music to someone who has never heard you before?
Carrot Topp: We play "genetically modified punk rock" or "music for mutants".
4. What image do you think your music conveys?
Rockin' Robin: Fun and colorful. Brings out your inner child.
Carrot Topp: Are you calling us immature?
Rockin' Robin: Well, if you put it that way.
Carrot Topp: I always we were doing something highly sophisticated, but I guess I was wrong.
5. Who are your influences musically or non and who writes the songs, what are they about?
Carrot Topp: My main influences are old school punk bands and novelty records like Dr. Demento plays on his show. Our non-musical influences include cartoons and comic books. We write most of the songs we play. The lyrics are usually written by me and Rockin' Robin. We seem to have a lot of songs about chickens for some reason.
6. If you could summarize the fictional mythology behind this band and its songs, videos, has this ended or is it never ending?
Rockin' Robin: Ummm...what?
Carrot Topp: I think they are asking if we are intending to quit what we are doing.
Rockin' Robin: I don't understand the question.
Carrot Topp: Well, it's not fictional. Everything thing we do is 100% real. To make a long story short, Dr. Kluckinstein created us as part of a master plan to fill the shelves with genetically modified giant frankenfoods that he would own the patents for. We were more interested in rockin' out and escaped from the laboratory. Ever since, he's been sending out his Legion of Goons to try to capture us.
7. If you had to pick one song to show someone who hadn’t heard of Radioactive Chicken Heads, which would it be?
Carrot Topp: Pest Control. Just because that one seems to be the favorite of our fans. It's about me trying to kill Chuck E Cheese.
8. Are you or any of the other members currently involved with any other bands or projects outside of Radioactive Chicken Heads?
Rockin' Robin: I'm currently working on my debut solo album. I'm known all around the world as the Poultry Pop Star. Check out my single, "Hi People, It's Me." It's a hit!
Carrot Topp: I used to front an all vegetable band called the Veg-o-matics but unfortunately, my bandmates were eaten by a giant rabbit named Badd Bunny. Hoping to find some new mutant vegetables one day and bring it back.
9. It's been 7 years since your last album "Tales From The Coop" was released, does the band have any new material in the works, follow-up EP or another LP perhaps?
Carrot Topp: Right now, we are working on finishing two albums of lost and rare Chicken Heads recordings. We are also planning a deluxe edition of our Music For Mutants album, which will include a previously unreleased live set that we recorded in 2008.
10. What could one expect from a live Radioactive Chicken Heads show?
Rockin' Robin: Pure fabulousness, especially if I'm there.
Carrot Topp: You never know what to expect, anything can happen so I recommend going to every show!
11. Whereabouts has the band played and hope to play in the future?
Carrot Topp: We've played all over the USA and parts of Canada, Mexico, and Peru. We hope to play more places that we've never been to.
12. What are your plans for the rest of 2024 into 2025?
Carrot Topp: We're planning to release Tales From the Coop on vinyl for the first time, coming out with a bunch of live action and animated music videos, a comic book, a documentary about the band, and two rarities albums.
Rockin' Robin: I'm planning to release my solo album and more skits and new music videos.
13. Where can we find out more about your band and its music?
Carrot Topp: You can find us at RadioactiveChickenHeads.com.
Rockin' Robin: And...You can find me at HiPeopleItsMe.com and all social media.
Creep It Real OC Brings Out the Spookiness From LA to OC!
For all things spooky, is when fall is upon us, or in some instances all things revolving around Halloween may be all year round! This is a thing for some of us, and Los Angeles County celebrated it this past spring with their “Spooky Swap Meet”, and this year’s 2024 edition being year four. Later on in the year come the fall time, would be Orange County’s turn with their own take of a similar spooky event called the “Creep It Real OC”, both events happening at the Heritage Museums of each owns country. Los Angeles’ had more vintage Victorian houses as opposed to Orange County’s, having some scattered here and there. Both events dwell on the same thing, all spooky and Halloween through and through!
Having attended both takes on this spooktacular way of life, OC was the fun this time, experiencing their own ways with this event, having a magic show, band play, and vendors of appeal, stickers, bags, posters, flags, toys, keychains, a wide range of items. Including snacks, food items, and beverages, one of which came in an actual Jack O Lantern keepsake! This was a very popular item, a lot of the people in attendance carrying pumpkins around drinking from them! The band in question playing on the Sunday and last day of the 2 day event was one called the Radioactive Chicken Heads, a punk rock band, whose act is a bunch of chicken’s fronted by a giant mutated vegetable. The ban being active for quite sometime, doing shows and touring every so often, that this weekend’s festivities brought the band back out, and got their rock on, with three different sets, each getting the crowd’s approval.
RADIOACTIVE CHICKEN HEADS
Their performance was funny, upbeat, and entertaining, the kids and adults alike, cheering to their antics, with the members having numerous characters come out and interact amongst the crowd of on lookers, getting a reaction of joy and fun. The music being punk rock, that’s catchy, mellow, yet fast at times, that kept the energy within the band active yet fun. They are a band that you would have to pretty much see them to believe them and the whole ordeal revolving around this radioactive mutation of creation.
All in all, Orange County’s Halloween take on a spooky fun event is worth the admission, because this weekend was completely sold out! Lots of people showing up, buying stuff, and adoring themselves with scary goods, to creep it real as the event is named after.