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Live
Recommendations for Monday, March 27, 2006
Th' Faith Healers
Th' Faith Healers, Fresh Kills - Northsix $10/$12
Th’
Faith Healers have returned from a twelve-year
hiatus and are playing Northsix tonight. For those of you
that don’t remember ‘em, they were the first band
on Too Pure Records – and were immediately ahead of
their time – towering above their English contemporaries
except for perhaps labelmates PJ Harvey and Stereolab (OK,
plus I guess Psychic TV, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, and Spaceman
3 and their spin-offs - alright, I'm making it public, I always
found Britpop shallow and derivative). They explored a variety
approaches but were best when they were doing their distorted
contemporary take on Can Monster Movie – which
doesn’t mean much now that everybody and their mama
sounds like Can but really meant a lot in the early 1990s
when it was more than you could've wished for from a band
(go to their
myspace page to hear "Dont' Jones Me").
I have no idea what they’ll be like twelve-years later
but can’t imagine it sucking - it'll just be strange
to find them finally living in their own time - if they haven't
now moved forward another decade. Also you should get their
early for Fresh
Kills, not only because they just got off a very
hungry tour and are tighter than my current financial situation,
but because singer Zack just walked out of six years of barbacking
at the Mars Bar last night and is sure to be full of the self-conscious
anxiety that is his best asset as a performer. Hence, he’ll
probably require some of you to buy him drinks for a change…
Also
recommended:
Part Chimp, Die!Die!Die!, The Drift - Cake Shop $7
J Dimenna, Good Evening, Mason Dixon, Dogs of Winter
Sin-e $8
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to NYNT's Live Archive here.
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