Friday Feb 27 at Bard and Saturday Feb 28 Hampshire College Prescott Tavern: Triple-whammy from Brooklyn to Hampshire: Tall Firs/Talk Normal/Red Dawn II Hampshire bonus: Natalie Weyes Bluhd
Not since Riki Rachtman left Headbanger’s Ball back in ’95 have the words ‘Triple Thrash Threat’ been so poignant. Three bands from Brooklyn who actually aren’t Metal bands at all, but who will probably listen to some Ozzy tapes during the van ride up anyway. Expect friendly nihilistic spasms and gruesome back-slapping good times.
Tall Firs (Ecstatic Peace!) were recently described by some joker with a blog as ‘Like an Explosions in the Sky which failed to Explode’, which was supposed to be a dis but is actually sort of poetic and not all that different from The Guardian (UK) describing a recent live show as possessing “a muscularity that recalls Neil Young in one of his more ornery moods, or a beefed-up Galaxie 500.” Everybody from Vice to Rolling Stone (?!?!?!) says nice stuff about them. Not bad for a couple guys that taught each other guitar over the phone and a drummer who- well there’s actually no making excuses for the drummer. He’s a badass.
Talk Normal: Crushing now-wave duoette inspires the quills of the dilettantes thusly: “…All I can say is don’t take any psychedelic drugs before coming to see TALK NORMAL because they will probably make your brain explode in fear. Take it easy, Wes, take it easy.” -Wesleying @ Blogspot “A band I never have heard of before from NYC called TALK NORMAL, instant crush and obsession. Drawn out and bizarre minimalist no-wave, for lack of better description. Like Die Monitr Batss at 16rpm, but with a more broad range, sort of reminding me of pre-Telepathe band, Wikkid, or even a more deranged Y Pants, but again, taking it to a more broken down level. ” -James Fella, Clap and Cough
Red Dawn II is an old skool hardcore duo including Awesome Allison of Awesome Color on drums. They like: Tequila, Necros, David Hess, No Fucker, Pink Reason, Zombies, Sharks, Courvoisier, Red Dawn, Terveet Kadet, Nigerian Punk, Friday the 13th the final chapter, Treasure Island, Dracula and his lake, Kool G, Orlando James San Felipe, Mango, Boneless Mike, Monkeys, Knives, and the word grip and the word hayaked.
Natalie Weyes Bluhd: That’s either a lot of fake blood in those pictures or someone is bleeding really heavily, and I don’t know which is scarier.