Triple Feature
Helping hands (plus one musician) at the 4th WallMain Era plays lights out at the 4th Wall on Friday, 23 February 2024.
This Body Is All I Have In The World is a longer band name than Rusty Mullet in the opening slots.
Digital Awareness in the house.
Massive Hump Nights incoming!
Good For Her, a new film series at the Capitol Theatre, has been added to Hump Nights for the month of March.
The promotional tagline is “NEVER UNDERESTIMATE WHAT A WOMAN IS CAPABLE OF…” and the series includes everything from A-list classics and cult favorites like Thelma & Louise and John Waters’ Serial Mom.
What’s that mean? Ace the Hump Nights quiz, win free passes to these films and the entire Hump Nights calendar for March.
All. Month. Long.
Don’t sleep on this one, the deadline for the March quiz is 3/5, the popcorn is already popping.
Rusty Mullet
This Body Is All I Have In This World
This Body Is All I Have In This World sounded like a completely different band since their gig at Deep Cuts just a couple of weeks ago. Small wonder – the earlier gig was a solo production put on by guitarist Tyler Zucco-Bernard. The setlist was full of songs off their latest LP soon, I’ll let you go, but you can’t fire up the rock n roll generator to full power without the trio of guitar, bass, and drums in all their proper places.
What was the full band experience like? Loud, gazey, roaming, precise and a little bit out of control all at the same time. The bassist lays down a mellow post punk line. The drummer nearly bounces out of his seat with the force he’s laying on the skins. And the guitarist Zucco-Bernard is sliding, scrapping, massaging, pounding, kneading and slapping the strings as much as he’s ever picking them in a conventional mode.
When asked about the guitar technique after the show, Zucco-Bernard talked about different influences from different music scenes, and namechecked one band in particular: Tela Bella. Check it out.
Main Era
The four-piece Main Era also dropped a new album, called The Bank, A Farmer, out via Candlepin Records.
The house lights were already dim to accommodate the Digital Awareness lightshow on the movie screen. But it felt like the dark room got stuffed into a black velvet knapsack when the band started into its setlist, a complete blackout except for the movie screen, which turned the band into not much more than sound-making silhouettes.
Once upon a time Main Era reigned supreme as local twee thrashlords. Songs like “Clandestine Sadness” rocked an irrepressible indie strum that mapped itself onto proven pop song structures for a satisfying listen. No more! The new album is darker, a bit less pop, a bit more artcore. There’s still passages for popthrash, but the band finds its way there through heavier and less predicatable paths. Shades of Daydream Nation-era Sonic Youth.
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