The Echo & Echoplex (Venue Partner)
Echo - 1822 Sunset Blvd
Echoplex - Enter at 1154 Glendale Blvd
213.413.8200
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citizen fish @ echoplex
- When
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Saturday Nov 7, 2009 (5pm)
- Where
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- Price
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$10 advance / $12 day of show
- Links
Citizen Fish || Listen
I don’t know if “ska” is the best term to describe the music that UK band Citizen Fish throws down. While the band has the horns and bouncing beats inherent to the style, they are so much more as a whole. To me, the band sounds like a weird cross breed of The Brian Setzer Orchestra and the educated Sex Pistols. Their singer, simply listed in the liner notes as “Dick,” adds what I’d call a little Irish accent to the mix that gives the band the feel of something you might run across in a dirty London pub.
Their new CD Deadline, a “split” album with New York hardcore purveyors Leftover Crack, is a powerhouse collection of songs proving, despite the frequent whining of mainstream music fans, there are still some great politically charged bands out there, if you know where to look. Fat Wreck Chord Records obviously does. - Blogcritics
Star F*cking Hipsters || Listen
S.F.H. was conceived as an alternate musical project for Sturgeon (aka Stza Crack, the singer/guitarist and primary song-writer for Choking Victim/Leftover Crack) and X-Possibles/L.O.C. drummer Brandon Chevalier-Kolling which was planned to commence in 2005 with the song eventually titled "look who's talking now!" (a version was recorded by Leftover Crack with Brandon on drums for the U.K.'s Radio 1 "lock-up" punk show in the B.B.C.s Mada Vale studios at the end of their 2004 European tour) as their first collaboration and S.F.H.'s jumping-off point. During the final days of an L.O.C. tour that took the band from Florida through Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas and scheduled to end in Louisiana the band was devastated by the untimely death of the Brandon on December 17th, 2004 in Dallas, Texas. After the funeral no plans were made to continue the band and the future of Leftover Crack was unclear and unspokenly non-existent. After a long break and 3 months of aimless travel through central America and Mexico, Sturgeon returned to start the punk band imagined by himself and Brandon: political-punk with a female vocalist and a rotating group of collaborating musicians.
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Molotov Compromise
5pm / $10 advance, $12 day of show / all ages
