The New Parish
579 18th St
510.444.7474
This event has passed.
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Courtesy the Clientele
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Thursday Sep 9, 2010 (8pm)
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- Price
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$15
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The Clientele formed a long time ago in the backwoods of suburban Hampshire, playing together as kids at school, rehearsing in a thatched cottage remote from any kind of music scene, but hypnotized by the magical strangeness of Galaxie 500 and Felt and the psych pop of Love and the Zombies. Singer Alasdair MacLean still recalls a pub conversation where the band collectively voted that it was OK to be influenced by surrealist poetry but not okay to have any shouting or blues guitar solos. From that moment on, they put their stamp on a kind of eerie, distanced pure pop that has been stripped to its essentials.
-The New Parish
