Two days - Sasquatch, Cold Cuts, Danglers, etc.

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

I went to a couple of shows the weekend of May 27-28. I didn't bring my camera.

Saturday night - Sasquatch and the Sick-A-Billies at Cafe 9.
This was the fourth time I've seen them and they still hold up. I don't know how much I care for the new drummer. He seemed to get lost a couple of times. The band played a song that they recorded for an upcoming Troma feature called Poultrygeist and that made me happy.
Pete Yorko was the opener. He was a one-man rockabilly band. It actually kind of worked. Silly, but not too much.

Sunday afternoon - Lamb Bombs and Jimmy Jude and the Cold Cuts at Cafe 9
I showed up late and missed a bunch of bands. They had been there since 2 o'clock, but I had other obligations. The Lamb Bombs were okay. When the drummer sang, it reminded me of the Dead Kennedys for some reason. Decent punky rock.
The Jimmy Jude thing was something special, though. He played alone, acoustically with a taped backing track of drums and other assorted noises. Some of the songs sounded like Battlecats demos, but some were much more emotionally involved than Battlecats songs usually are. The night climaxed with everybody in the bar chanting: "I want a Jungle Jim and a swingset" that morphed into "I want a Jimmy Jude and a four-track."

Sunday night - The Danglers and Kings of Nuthin' at Rudy's
I went to see the Danglers and figured I'd hang around to check out the Kings of Nuthin'. That plan didn't really work out, though, when I stepped outside after the Dangler's set and couldn't get back in. There were so many people there, I didn't even want to try to break through them. Hell, the band alone must have had a dozen people - they had an upright piano and a horn section.
The Danglers played well. Unlike a lot of shows at Rudy's, people actually came into the room when the band started playing. Usually, they run outside so they can continue to socialize.
Then I went to Bar but didn't see the bands. I acutally ended up socializing myself.


http://www.myspace.com/peteyorko
http://www.myspace.com/sasquatch
http://www.lambbombs.com
http://www.myspace.com/thebattlecats
http://www.myspace.com/danglersnewhaven
http://www.myspace.com/thekingsofnuthinboston