After doing 5 shows in Texas including multiple SXSW gigs, feisty Melbourne band Amyl and the Sniffers play their first headlining gig in San Francisco at Thee Parkside on March 22 2019. Here are two songs excerpted from the ferocious and fast, barely 35 minute set featuring diminutive dynamo Amy Taylor on vocals. Here’s Westgate and Cup Of Destiny in front of a sold out SF club crowd.
Mayhem Via Melbourne
In the midst a long awaited and sold out 17 shows in a row stand at The Chapel in San Francisco in March of 2017, former Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy added a special David Bowie Tribute night to the slate of performances.
His voice was a bit of ragged glory all night, as he could barely speak, yet managed to soar through the choruses of the Bowie back catalog. After this song he introduces the touring band featuring drummer Marc Slutsky, guitarist Mark Gemini Thwaite, and multi instrumentalists Casey McAllister and Emilio Zef China who’d just tackled the classic 70’s glam rock album cut Jean Genie.
A band for over twenty years, formerly based in Seattle and now spread all over like a blood spatter at a crime scene, Die Feisty Fab Four aus Seattle schießen locker aus der Hüfte zwei neue Punkrock-Smasher, die sich anhören, als ob keine Minute vergangen wäre. Und immer noch wildern sie sowohl in 70er und 80er UK- als auch US-Gefilden, um ihren Sound zu schmieden. のニューアルバムがお出ましだ！何時ぶりなんだいったい！わっしょい！
Kendra Smith Makes Her First Appearance With The Dream Syndicate in 35 Years, And This Clip Documents The Moment Before a Sold Out Crowd In San Francisco.
This Multi-Camera Live Video Features Her Husky Voice On “Too Little Too Late” Reprised from The Band’s Acclaimed Early 1980’s Debut Album And The “Kendra’s Dream” From The Band’s Recent Reunion Recording “How Did I Find Myself Here?”. Both Songs Were Recorded at The Independent in San Francisco
Just days after completing a Mexican Tour, Colin Jerwood configured his US touring version of Conflict, and started from Phoenix, bringing the band up to Oakland, for this pit stirring set conclusion shot at the non-profit Oakland Metro venue at Jack London Square 5 20 2019, presented by Numbskull Shows. Joining vocalist and band founder Colin in this US touring lineup in this video is William Faith on guitar, Preston Maddox on bass and Andrew Sole on drums. Special thanx to touring bassist Preston from Austin TX for the setlist
For Those In Dire Need Of Some Funk Punk Rock & Soul
Here are the amazing @TheBellRays doing the song “I Don’t Wanna Cry” from their album Punk Funk Rock Soul, Vol. 1 in a live video that I shot at @TheeParkside in February of 2019. With the BellRays there is no conscious effort to ‘combine’ rock and soul because they don’t see them as divided in the first place. Blues is teacher. Punk is the preacher, and The BellRays were always listening.
I first heard the voice of Lisa Kekaula come booming out of the speakers at Red Devil Records in Petaluma about twenty years ago. I asked the proprietor is this was an old soul record I was unfamiliar with, and he said no, it was a new group called the Now Time Delegation, featuring former Big Boys guitarist Tim Kerr. It turns out he’d poached Lisa and her husband Bob Vennum to work with him in a special configuration that did some touring to promote their only release on the In The Red label circa 1998. (I’ll link you to some footage I shot from that tour when I get time).
Fast forward twenty years, and Lisa and Bob are still holdin’ down the fort and take it on the road as their main band The BellRays, mixing up hard rock, funk and soul into a fierce blend that is best caught live.
Join their mailing list at http://TheBellraysRock.com so you can stay up to date on their next run through your town. Chances are you won’t hear the BellRays on the radio, but you’ll hear ’em in your head and feel ’em in your loins!
Love Me From A Distance” a live version of a song from the Elettrodomestico album If You’re a Boy or a Girl.
Shortly before the Hemlock Tavern shut down for good in San Francisco, I was privileged enough to attend an evening’s show where Jane Wiedlin (formerly of the Go-Go’s) was giving her latest musical project a chance to test it’s club rock legs. Featuring her latest songwriting collaborator, Pietro Straccia on guitar, plus some local pedigreed rockers like Dawn Richardson of 4 Non-Blondes on percussion and and longtime Tom Waits’ guitarist Joe Gore playing bass, they put a great intimate show in a tiny sweaty club that has since been torn down.
Founder of UK anarcho-activist band Colin Jerwood configured his US touring version of CONFLICT, and started from Phoenix, bringing the band up to Oakland, for this set conclusion shot at the non-profit Oakland Metro Operahouse venue near Jack London Square 5/20/2019, Conflict, Kicker at the Oakland Metro presented by Numbskull Productions.
Joining Colin in this this live video is the US Riot Fest lineup of William Faith on guitar, Preston Maddox on bass and Andrew Sole on drums.
Special thanx to touring bassist Preston from Austin TX for access to the setlist
Caroleen Beatty & Doug Hilsinger’s Enorchestra – Golden Hours (live @MakeOutRoomSF) from LilMikeSF on Vimeo.
Doug, Caroleen, Sunny, Steve, Bruce and Dustin dusted off their unique guitar centric take on the 70’s era Brian Eno classics live at The Make-Out Room for a sold out Enorchestra + Mayya & the Revolutionary Hell Yeah! concert held Saturday April 6th 2019. This is but one of their many Enorchestra takes Brian Eno’s rock classics.
in 2004, Doug Hilsinger and Caroleen Beatty lovingly made a homemade cover version of Brian Eno’s second solo album, “Taking Tiger Mountain (by strategy)”, a wonderful record originally released in 1974 on the EG label. Brian Eno happened to hear the new versions of his old songs and was joyous, proclaiming “I like it very, VERY much!”.
And so it was released on cd by DBK Works label, with Brian Eno writing the liner notes. Two years later DBK went out of business and the cd is now out of print. if you want a CD with all the artwork, get in touch with Doug Hilsinger thru saucefaucet.com
