Apache at Don Pedro
Apache are playing six shows in town this weekend (Thurs-Sat!) They can manage this kind of booking because they are absolutely incredible. Yes, their lyrics are solidly in the "turn brain off before use" category. But with a little help from the audience at Don Pedro, especially Josh (of the band Ex-Humans), they turned a room full of perfectly normal drunks into moshing headbanging psycho-drunks, which is just tremendous fun to photograph.
Posted: 7/3/2010 at 2:06pm Tags: Apache Don Pedro great hair Josh
Nobunny at Cake Shop
I hope these photos make it look like Nobunny's show at Cake Shop was awesome. Honestly, it wasn't. I don't know every single thing that went wrong, but three barely-working mics and several broken bottles on the floor (notice that Nobunny doesn't wear shoes) must have had something to do with it. Too bad, because I have seen plenty of good performances by Nobunny, including his last one at Cake Shop.
Daddy Long Legs at Cake Shop
Bluesmen like Brian of Daddy Long Legs really know how how screamin' should be done. My ears are ringing just looking at this photo.
Posted: 7/3/2010 at 11:40am Tags: Cake Shop Daddy Long Legs great hair
New Bomb Turks at The Bell House
The first show of the New Bomb Turks reunion mini-tour-thing took place in Brooklyn, NY (Hooray for us!) The show included a reading of lead singer Eric Davidson's new book "We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001", which sounded pretty damn good to me. But what really sounded good was the New Bomb Turks. I'm not sure quite sure how much time they took off from touring before reuniting but they sure recovered quickly.
Posted: 6/27/2010 at 4:12pm Tags: New Bomb Turks reunion The Bell House
LiveFastDie at The Bell House
I seem to recall going to LiveFastDie's final show, "The Death of LiveFastDie", sometime last Summer. I guess the offer to play with a reunited New Bomb Turks was so irresistable even "death" could not stop them. A Frankenstein lineup consisting of various people who had and had not been in the band at some point during its lifetime played one hell of a show at The Bell House.
Posted: 6/27/2010 at 2:40pm Tags: LiveFastDie reunion The Bell House
