Israeli punk band Monotonix played one of the most unpredictable and mayhem fueled gigs i’ve ever seen at The Annandale last night.

The room was about half full, so to begin the 3 piece band set up their gear in the middle of the room for the audience to circle around.

From the get go it was bedlam. Frontman Ami was grabbing people’s drinks and spitting them back in their faces, running along the bar, lifting a girl in the crowd and placing her on the drummers shoulders, placing a garbage bin over the drummers head, then grabbing a drum and playing while elevated by the crowd.

At one point the whole band relocated to be playing on top of the thin bar – the next moment the singer had coaxed the crowd to lift him above their heads on a couch.

Perhaps the most brazen moment of the night was when the band marched right out the frontdoors of The Annandale onto Parramatta Rd leading the crowd as they went. The band played as the audience huddled around and the singer scaled a traffic light. He then leapt onto the crowd’s outstretched arms.

The Annandale staff had been nervously eyeing the chaos all night, but it was only once the action moved outside and people spilled onto the road that they intervened, forcing the band to head back inside.

I’ve seen some stage antics in my time, but this was the most wild and unpredictable.

Monotonix frontman Ami Shalev plays drums while elevated by the crowd

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