Defiant Scum

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Background Information
Name (English)	Definat Scum
Origin	Hongkong
Genre	punk rock
Years active	2006
Members
Vocals: Muzz the Maniac Guitar: Pierre the Frenchman Bass: Kv@x Drums: Julian the powerhouse (ex-Hollow)
Former members
Drums: Nicky Guitars: Jake the Snake Bass: Kuro the pick biter

History

From the streets of Kowloon come Defiant Scum! After noticing very little punk music in Hong Kong amidst all the metal-core and pop music it was decided that someone should get off their arse and form a band. Thus, Defiant Scum emerged in September 2006.

They've got 10 songs recorded for a cd which will be burnt in time for their China tour in July. Defiant Scum and The Squawk are touring China from 18th-22nd of May. They'll be playing in Changsha, Wuhan and Beijing. They are playing quite regularly anywhere they can in Hong Kong so it shouldn't be hard to catch a show.

How did it all begin? well....

Muzz had been into punk music for about half his life and used to sing in a band in Sydney, Australia. He moved to Hong Kong (for reasons outside of music) in early 2006. After going to every gig he could find, he became quickly aware of a distinct lack of the music he liked here. He managed to get in contact with Kuro who at that stage was the only person he'd met in HK who knew what real punk music was. She didn't know anyone who liked the same music as her. Snake arrived from Australia a few months later and it was quickly decided a band needed to be formed. The main drive for this was to hopefully kick start a punk scene in Hong Kong so they'd have bands to go watch on the weekend. Finding more people for the band was close to impossible until everything fell into place one night in September 2006. They met Jan who had just come to HK from Germany for a little while to study and Nicky who was keen to try drumming for a punk band! Jan was in a couple of punk bands in Germany and Nicky was in a couple of metal bands in HK. They had their first rehearsal the following weekend.

After 2 rehearsals they already had 3 songs..... by the end of November they had 10. They played their first gig at an open mic night at The Wanch in early December and through word of mouth managed to pack the little pub wall to wall with some even standing on tables. That night was like a goal achieved because they had different people approach them and say they were forming punk bands. A scene is forming!

Unfortunately, at the end of December Jan left to go back to Germany (he is missed!) and Henry (who also played in another band in HK) stepped up to fill in for him on bass.

At the beginning of February the beautiful Kuro has left for Switzerland to study and has been replaced by Pierre from France on lead guitar who plays in a ska band back home. Nicky is out and was quickly replaced with Julian from Germany who is an absolute powerhouse drummer. Kuro has returned to play bass for our China tour.

On May 8th, 2010, they performed at The Underground for the Underground Heavy 3 event. According to Shashwati:

Moving on from a gender-bending, essentially unmusical act, Defiant Scum was a return to the hard-hitting, gritty streets of punk/hardcore that are so rare here in HK. They began with a new song, Every Day is the Same, heralded by crashing, machine-gunned drums and angry, yelled vocals. Their presence was as loud as the music, because they certainly couldn’t be ignored if you were anywhere in the vicinity of the stage. In the honoured tradition of punk music, the songs were really short, and if you weren’t paying attention, you’d probably miss huge chunks. They reminded me a lot of the Germs, with their mix of an irreverent attitude, the punky hooks, balanced out with the skilled, more metal-esque solos. The frontline of revellers was visually populated mostly by Wu So Lui, continuing with the ponytail-banging (only, off the stage, this time). Defiance marked by a very cool method of short yet noodling riffs, and a pogo-worthy rhythm. In what was to prove a continuing theme that night, one cymbal repeatedly fell off; but, they didn’t let it impinge on their show.^[1]