Get loose
The D4 are making a racket at the Rising Sun tonight before they tear off to the US to play at Little Steven's International Underground Garage Festival. What? Read this...
"[The Festival] will feature Iggy and the Stooges, the Strokes, the New York Dolls, Bo Diddley, Big Star, the Pretty Things, the Raveonettes, the Dictators, the Electric Prunes, the Mooney Suzuki, the Woggles, the Lyres, the Star Spangles, the Gore Gore Girls, Nancy Sinatra, the Creation and many others. The headliners will play full sets, but most bands will play just a few songs.
For Mr. Van Zandt, who at 53 still wears the loose, brightly colored garb that earned him the nickname Miami Steve, the radio show and the festival - which he hopes to make an annual event - represent a revival of rough, honest, beautiful garage rock as a musical form and a redemption from restrictive radio formats that rely on familiarity and market testing."
The article originally appears on the New York Times site, but its archived over here for your reading pleasure, cos they are stingy at the Times with their archives.
Meanwhile, upstairs at 4:20, i'll be playing in support of my man MC Word Perfect, who is launching his album tonight.
Friday night I will be off to check out Champion Sound with Ruffian, Earl E and Cian at Rakinos, some nice reggae styles, Saturday I'll be playing in Hamilton at Catalyst (Dub Asylum, Bassteppa, the Midnights and more), and Sunday at 2.30pm I'll be playing a short set at the Music Expo at Sky City Convention Centre. Have a good one, yeah?
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