Bollock Brothers’ Punk Antics Prove to Be Underwhelming

Never mind the Bollock Brothers. The English-German quintet, which plays Club Postnuclear in Laguna Beach on Sunday night, has pulled such ridiculous stunts as re-recording the entire debut album by the Sex Pistols, “Never Mind the Bollocks” (hence their name).

The band has garnered KROQ favor for its rendition of decadent French popster Serge Gainsborough’s “Harley Davidson of a Bitch.” Its latest assault on good taste is rather an easy target--a version of one of the lamest songs of the decade, Berlin’s “Sex.”

In any case, anyone expecting an evening of sharp wit and loony antics would have been underwhelmed by the Bollocks’ performance at Bogart’s in Long Beach on Thursday night.

These guys are hardly the Monty Python of post-punk. As the group stomped its way around a keyboard-flavored brand of post-punk disco, leader Jock McDonald tonelessly dead-panned his way through at least three songs about Dracula and other monsters (a half-funny one compared a meeting between Frankenstein and the Wolfman to Rodney Bingenheimer, a KROQ disc jockey, encountering Boy George).

Other songs had bits of Beach Boy and Doors tunes thrown in (probably for that “L.A. appeal”). There was a piece about a gay habitue of an “acid house” disco, and a paean to Brigitte Bardot.

The high point of the evening occurred when two nubile So-Cal nymphets were pulled onto the stage to squeal “woooo” during a tawdry bit of innuendo about Dracula’s vampiric prowess.

This group’s genial but inane pub-rock buffoonery is best suited for the British equivalent of frat boys so bombed on brews they don’t realize that, with material as thin as its musical settings, these Bollocks be boring.

The Bollock Brothers and Fanfare play Sunday at 9 p.m. at Club Postnuclear, 775 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach. Admission: $10.50. Information: (714) 497-3881.