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  • From: "Sakura-San" <sorren23 AT nc.rr.com>
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: Stuff to do, week[end] of January 28, 2005
  • Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 03:08:47 GMT

MOWING LAWNS!!!!!!!!


"grady" <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote in message
41FABB83.3070000 AT ibiblio.org">news:41FABB83.3070000 AT ibiblio.org...
> I'll give you next week next week, if I get around to it, or you can DIY.
> Until then:
>
> Friday, January 28
> Transportation, Jule Brown [http://www.julebrown.org], Mowing Lawns
> [http://www.dyss.net/mlawns.html]
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
> Jule Brown is the early show at the Cave. Mark Holland has been
> playing music both with & without his brother Michael for longer than
> I've lived in NC; for most of that time they were known collectively
> as Jennyanykind, but Mark has been doing Jule Brown on the side since
> the 90s sometime, and as Jennyanykind coasted in for a landing, Jule
> Brown just naturally picked up where they left off, with more weird
> droning mesmerizing country blues gospel psychedelia.
>
> The late show is 70s UK glam/pop-influenced rockers Transportation --
> listen for the early Queen & the Badfinger (or don't--it'll come find
> you, no doubt). Also on the bill: the avant-folk (and occasional
> crouch-on-the-floor knob-twiddling-noise) of Mowing Lawns.
>
>
>
> Friday, January 28
> Chrome Plated Apostles [http://www.demonbeach.com], Killer Filler, Red
> Skeleton
> Kings, Raleigh
>
> Chrome-Plated Apostles are Clif, Rock & Hunter from the Bad Checks
> with Clif on guitar and Greg Adams (Pipe MkII) on bass. They're kinda
> like, um, the Bad Checks, only maybe a little dirtier. Is that
> possible?
>
> Red Skeleton covered Dinosaur Jr. at the Cover-Up and the oft-repeated
> joke was that the only thing they'd done was put on wigs; they already
> had the sound down cold.
>
>
>
> Saturday, January 29
> Eyes to Space [http://www.eyestospace.net/], The Prayers and Tears of
> Arthur Digby Sellers [http://www.prayersandtears.com/], Nathan Asher &
> the Infantry [http://www.nathanasher.com/], Feeding the Fire
> [http://www.feedingthefire.com/], In the Year of the Pig
> [http://www.southernloveprod.com/ityotp.htm]
> Nightlight, Chapel Hill
>
> Zip back and forth between here & the Cave (shouldn't be too hard;
> they're literally a few hundred yards from each other) and you can
> potentially see *eight* of the Triangle's Next Generation of bands in
> one night.
>
> Nathan Asher and the Infantry are working on a serious E-Street Band
> fetish--there are like 14 of them, and they end every song with a Big
> Rock Ending. Nathan's rushing tumble of lyrics sometimes gets so
> overwhelming that he starts sounding like one of those logorrheic MCs,
> dropping rhymes faster than you can parse. Mostly he tries to sing,
> though, and in any case the multiplicity of guitars & pianos & whatnot
> leave no doubt that it's a rockband. That wears fatigues. Hmm. The
> earnestness kind of makes me queasy, but it's definitely a spectacle,
> one way or another.
>
>
>
> Saturday, January 29
> Kolyma, TV Knife, Dude Garden
> Martin Street Music Hall, Raleigh
>
> Russ deSena (ex-Chickens, Night Moose, Kolyma) says: "Maybe you saw TV
> Knife do the Flaming Lips at Cover Up? I like em better as TV Knife,
> but Lips analogy holds (sorta) for the original material. DG has James
> from Lord Neck/Night Moose w/ Phil, Chris, and Christie from Bucks
> Deluxe."
>
>
>
> Saturday, January 29
> Can Joann [http://www.canjoann.com/], Fashion Design
> [http://fashiondesignband.com/], Schooner
> [http://www.schoonermusic.com]
> The Cave, Chapel Hill
>
> If you've been wondering what the New Generation of Triangle bands
> looks like, this show would make an excellent primer. Fashion Design
> make the swooshing chorusy coed brit-influenced shoegaze/anthemrock.
> Schooner make the mopey bedroom pop that occasionally bursts into
> great crashing rock moments. Can Joann are a cipher.
>
>
>
> Saturday, January 29
> The Moaners, The Spinns [http://www.thespinns.freeservers.com/]
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> OK, so there's a third secret opening band, and the folks at the label
> all of a sudden couldn't resist sending out a lot of emails dropping
> hints earlier this week, so much so that there's a distinct
> possibility that this show is going to be a mob scene.
>
> If you manage to negotiate that, you'll be treated to the rudimentary
> garage-stomp of the Spinns, and then the rudimentary in a different
> way gtr/drums rock+reel of the Moaners, who are Melissa Swingle
> (ex-Trailer Bride) and Laura King (ex-Gerty, Grand National), who is
> one of the best rock drummers I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.
> Oh yeah: yr $8 gets you a copy of the new Moaners CD, "Dark Snack."
>
>
>
> Sunday, January 30
> Strange [http://www.thisisstrange.org]
> WXDU 88.7 FM, Durham
>
> Strange are from Raleigh; they make huge weird echoey boomy rock, the
> kind that seems like it comes from another world or at least another
> continent. Another dimension? Maybe. Echoes of the Birthday Party, the
> earlier Cult, I dunno, Savage Republic? Name a band from the 80s that
> crashed & boomed a little & invent your own metaphors. 5:00 p.m. 88.7
> FM or www.wxdu.org.
>
>
>
> Monday, January 31
> Velvet [http://www.velvetpop.com], Park Life
> [http://www.parklifeband.com/]
> Local 506, Chapel Hill
>
> This is a free show.
>
>
>
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