Le Rug / Hop Along, Queen Ansleis / Chaos Character / Ollie Byrd @ Micheline’s
Le Rug is back in the basement this Friday, with good friends Ollie Byrd, far-flung spastic-industrial Chaos Character (from Providence, RI), and Hop Along, Queen Ansleis! Hop Along’s in the city for a little bit, and we’ve snagged her and her acoustic guitar for some sweet children’s screamalongs that double seamlessly with a raised whiskey glass. Grab your big socks, pull them all the way up to your knees, and jump on the J train!
-The Bands!-
LE RUG
HOP ALONG, QUEEN ANSLEIS
OLLIE BYRD
CHAOS CHARACTER
Friday, January 23rd
8pm, $5
@ Micheline’s
1124 Broadway (btwn DeKalb and Kosciuszko)
[Take the J to Kosciuszko, and it’s directly beneath the train tracks…]
[LE RUG]
“A pop music exorcism. Ray Weiss (also from Hundred Dollar Elephant and The Medics) channels post-punk fire from somewhere mysterious inside of himself. He must be hollow, because it couldn’t possible fit anywhere else. Double-drum dance solos, electric keyboard freakouts, tearing apart his guitar until he looks like he’s going to vomit… Le Rug starts off every set by doing a nose dive off the roof’s edge, and just keeps gaining speed until the whole room goes splat.”
“Frances makes silly folk songs that might make you smile or sigh. She has two brothers, and they are both drummers. One’s in a band called Hey Hey, and they are great. The other brother is great solo. frances has one album out, called “Freshman Year,” and a bazillion awesome new songs that she teases everybody with at her shows. If you like stories and singing and yelling and bells and banjos and drums and some kazoo, You might like this. Hope to smile, yelp, and jump up and down with you at the next show.”
“Musically, Byrd excels at creating a full band sound by himself, embracing his influences while noticeably striving for something to call his own. The songs are broad, well structured, extremely animated, and sometimes adventurous. They progress, revert, and often explode delightfully at the end. This, combined with Byrd’s new-millennium yet down-home production style, result in songs that are raw, stirring, and unpredictable. The potential here is astounding.”
“Insanity, but with a mixer, and maybe a sequencer. It’s hard to tell what’s on the table, honestly, or what all the knobs and dials are connected to. They certainly make alot of noise, though.”
[Thanks to Todd P. for helping with the listing of this show, and Joe Ahearn for helping with the silly cartoon flyer… and don’t forget to check out our photo gallery and YouTube account for videos of past spectacular feats of sweaty synchronized spasming!]