![]() Fantasy, or just some Guy? (Illustration By Nathan Jensen) Also, new ACG addition Attack Formation's next LP, Somebody as Anybody, will be out Aug. (Ultimately, no charges were filed.) Amid all this excitement, famous British label Rough Trade picked up GF's Lying and Manipulating for UK release, and their own label, Australian Cattle God, has several on tap: 2004's previously self-released Gorch Fock debut, and August West Coast tour partners Tia Carrera's November Session LP, both due in June. It was the Fockers' first local appearance since returning from an eventful East Coast tour, which found Gibby Haynes checking out their show with the Heroine Sheiks in New York, and an unnamed member cooling his heels in a Washington, D.C., lock-up after attempting to douse his own member in 151 and set it ablaze to protest the club's miserly "pull door" practice of only giving money to those bands that patrons expressly say they're there to see. Stars-and-stripes-clad frontman Joey Ficklin commenced last Sunday's bout with a solo trombone rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," then the band spelled the defending champion Holy Rollers' thrashing of the Cherry Bombs with a thunderous halftime set. He even dares to drop the word "disco." "No more crying-in-your-beer shit for a while," he promises.įocked Up Last glimpsed shaking apart the Room 710 balcony, to the detriment of bassist Win Wallace's rib cage, rampaging local septet Gorch Fock may have finally found a venue big enough to contain them: the spacious hangar at the old airport that now houses the Lone Star Rollergirls. When he gets back, Bartell hopes to begin recording a proper follow-up, which he says will be more upbeat than his past melancholy musings. ![]() Since Too Soon sold out its first and only pressing ("I don't even have one"), Bartell is cobbling together a disc of unreleased material live recordings, demos, covers, rehearsals, etc. Catch them when you can: Bartell plans on spending parts of June and August, and most of July, on the road, leading up to Seattle-based label Sarathan's September re-release of his 2004 album, Too Soon to Say, with new artwork and two songs from his 2001 debut EP, Reference. "I think people forgot we were there for a while," he figures. ![]() Just back from Philadelphia, where he played a radio conference and discovered an after-hours speakeasy called the Pit, and on his way to the Kerrville Folk Festival, which he attends every year, Bartell continues holding down Wednesdays at Ego's with his band Love Seat. Frame of Reference Morrissey-mad Austin tunesmith Shane Bartell might consider adding some Rick Nelson to his repertoire he's a travelin' man, and then some. ![]()
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