Brother JT
Nothing People, Swiftumz
- When
- Sat Feb 11, 2012
- Where
- Hemlock Tavern
- Time
- 9:30pm
- Cost
- $8
- Tags
- Music
Description
Brother JT"John Terlesky started taking acid in the mid-’80s as part of Philadelphia’s Original Sins, a poppy garage band that eventually saw the light and turned to psychedelia. The 1990s came around and the gods were calling for a solo effort, so JT recorded Descent, at that point just the fifth LP on the do-no-wrong label Twisted Village label (now OOP). Since that point, JT has released deranged folk and shambolic rock on labels like Drag City, Siltbreeze, Drunken Fish, and Birdman." - Dusted
Nothing People
Nothing People: effected guitars, drones, broken equipment, old synths, reverbs, delays, repetitive chords, feedback, layers of simple ideas, and Baken-ets.
Swiftumz
"The problem with imaginary combinations is that many of them actually already exist. Don’t Trip sounds like a collaboration between Nick Nicely and Eric Hysteric, over which Tony Wilson and Alan McGee would get into a bidding war. Chris McVicker—a.k.a. Swiftumz, famous for penning the fastest selling Hunx & His Punx single—sambas through ’80s Factory singles, afternoon hits of MDMA on the beach, Ibizia before techno, Glaswegian nonchalance, Stolen Kisses and tripping at the Haçienda (the San Francisco one; Manchester’s closed down years ago). Seriously, it’s all present—but like any other great interpreter of Britain’s finest musical traditions, McVicker is just a guy from near Mac Dre’s hometown in Northern California who might laugh if one told him that “More Than Sleep” should be in a Sofia Coppola movie, because he was probably aiming higher than that. Like the best Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk commercial ever."
Comments