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THE ICARUS LINE AND WHITE COWBELL OKLAHOMA Tuesday July 20 at Lucky Bar
| Message Board > Up n' Coming! (aka Shameless Promotion) > THE ICARUS LINE AND WHITE COWBELL OKLAHOMA Tuesday July 20 at Lucky Bar |
| lucky bar User Info... | This promises to be a double bill of epic proportions. This show will not be seen anywhere else but here. I promise that everyone who sees this show will talk about it for years to come. THE ICARUS LINE: Like most originals, The Icarus Line have endured more than their share of abuse, derision, critical condescension and even outright hostility. Nay sayers mouths have been filled with their feet once having heard �Penance Soiree�. Have you been longing for a band to come along that encompasses everything that rock n� roll was originally about? All that cool shit you read about in Mojo� you know� danger, excitement, tour, tour, tour, sex, drugs, & rock n� roll? Well, look no further. I�ve witnessed the consequences firsthand of The Icarus Line being pushed to the breaking point. Meltdowns (always commonly on the road) include being chased out of town (literally) by angry promoters, fistfights with soundmen and crew members, arrests, being sued, entire back-lines and stages destroyed, and guitar cases containing Stevie Ray Vaughn�s guitar being smashed open (it seemed inappropriate for such a pretty guitar not to be used). The consequences of the last instance included multiple death threats. Turns out Texans love Stevie. But let�s not paint such a grim picture. These boys enjoy themselves on the road as well, even if their laugh is at the expense of others (for some reason, spray painting other band�s tour busses gets their rocks off the most). A leer seems to lurk behind every word on �Penance Soiree� that vocalist Joe Cardamone sings, spits, or screams into his microphone as if with a scowling surreptitious pleasure, like some weird kid gang leader phoning in the details of the next job to his army of thugs. And if you don�t watch out you just might get hit with his swinging mic, or maybe a slashing guitar that seems to jet into the audience ever so haphazardly. Jagged, crunching, erratic, but rhythmically right every second of the way is the rest of the band: Aaron North, Alvin DeGuzman, Don Devore, and Jeff �The Captain� Watson. BE WARNED: The Icarus line are able to meet any audience on it�s own terms, no matter what charming devilish bullshit the crowd might think up. They�d like to fuck you up and blow you to the back of the room, all while doing their street-strutting Jaggerisms. Members of the band often enter the audience to see exactly what�s what, and even from the stage, their piercing red smeared eyes reach out searchingly through the onlookers, sweeping the joint and singling out hecklers. Hey there, you in the crowd� this is your stage as well as theirs, and if you can take it away from them� well, fuck buddy, you�re welcome to it! But good luck because the kings of the motherfucking mountain must maintain the pace, as well as the authority, and few can. In this sense, The Icarus Line are of the rarest kind. They have won the stage, and nothing but the force of their own presence entitles them to it. This world traveling act is wide open. Do your worst mate, falsify The Icarus Line! It�s your night pal! �Man I could get up there and cut that shit.� Well, here�s your chance� but there�s no takers. People stare and gawk, and at most crowd the front of the stage even though it�s danger in the front row. This ain�t like watching monkeys take shits at the zoo kids, and these aren�t caged animals. Approach at your own risk, for there is always the chance of having a limb or an organ picked at in the shuffle of it all. Yeah, it�s safe to say that this band will scare the shit out of your mom. The Icarus Line�s sound isn�t one of a punk band in the classic sense, yet at times it feels like they are the only punk band left. You might say their ethos, sense of integrity, confrontational nature of their performances, and their belief in what they do is very punk rock. They sound like what dangerous rock music should sound like in 2004, and are here to fill the void created by nu-metal, mall-emo, jock-punk, frat guy rock, and teeny-weenie bopper dance music. Most bands are soporifically lazy these days, and that�s why The Icarus Line and any other band that challenges their audience, are the answer we�ve been looking for. And in case you don�t know anything about music, but it�s your job to review their new record (which is usually the case with �music journalists� these days), here�s some influences you can drop into your review to make yourself look smarter: The Stooges, Black Flag, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Born Against, Led Zeppelin, The Jesus Lizard, Mudhoney, Black Sabbath, The Velvet Underground, Billy Childish, The Birthday Party, My Bloody Valentine, Funkadelic, Spacemen 3, The Stone Roses, The Rolling Stones, The Wipers, Suicide, Joy Division, The Who, Tones On Tail, Guns N� Roses, Gram Parsons, and Primal Scream just to name a few. Let�s put it this way, if good rock n� roll was a steamroller they�d be lying under it, and me too. I know because I�ve seen their record collections. All five members of The Icarus Line live in Los Angeles, Hollywood district. If you ask The Icarus Line just exactly who they think will relate with their songs on �Penance Soiree�, they�d reply with, �losers, drug addicts, high school dropouts, freaks, and fuck ups�� Perfect. In closing The Icarus Line are the best rock n� roll band in the entire world right now and no one reads this far anyways. Rock N� Roll is better than politics, it�s better than sports, it�s better than high school, it�s better than college, it�s better than your slave driving job you hate, it�s better than money, fuck, it�s better than drugs, and I�ll go as far as saying it�s even better than sex. WHITE COWBELL OKLAHOMA: Take every clich� you�ve ever heard about the southern part of the U.S. � from in-breeding and alcoholism to Bible-thumping, gun-toting and being too �familiar� with some of the barnyard animals, mix well with way-out theatrics, some role-playing Torontonians and then spank it with a hard-driving, head-banging version of 1970s Southern rock, and you might just come close to the entity known as White Cowbell Oklahoma. Now imagine having to interview one of the members of the band. As far as the truth goes, WCO are a Toronto-based raunch-and-roll band with anywhere from 10 to 30 members, claiming to hail from Oklahoma, and infamous for their live shows which have featured such diverse entertainment as naked women, fire-eating midget henchmen, leather-clad dominatrixes, and four-foot penis statues spewing flaxseed oil onto audiences. �I gots one word for you, and that�s �lurid,�� drawled Clem (whose momma never gave him no last name, he said), guitarist for the band. �We are the antidote to Alcoholics Anonymous. �Actually, it is a combination of science, witchcraft and old-time religion,� he said. WCO have been causing quite a stir, and creating a loyal fan base in Toronto over the past three or four years, and now Clem said they�re headed out West to convert the rest of the country to their brand of rock-and-roll salvation. Reality takes a bit of a nose-dive at this point. �This is the start of a new tour into British Columbia, Canada and the southern realms of Mordor,� he said. �This is the first time we�ve been to this part of British Columbia, Canada, and we hear there is a lot of mountain lion, mountain goat and Bigfoot huntin� to be had." �We have a special tour van what got a special turret installed for our rifles equipped with night scopes and laser sights, and we are gonna do a little bit of Bigfoot huntin� on the way up to Whistler, because they�s good eatin� I hear,� he said. Want to know how the band came up with their country-fied moniker? �It�s a phallic thing really,� he said. �Y�all heard of bands like White Snake and things like that what have a phallic connotation? �The cowbell is a very phallic instrume nt, because it�s a symbol of violence and sexuality, and hyp-no-tizing rhythms.� he said. �Also the reason we took the name White Cowbell Oklahoma, was because the name Black Oak Arkansas was already taken.� Clem said the debauchery that ensues at WCO shows is caused by the band�s �spiritual� rock-and-roll sounds, which infect listeners with a kind of religious abandon. �When you hear the sound of the Bell, you just got to move to the bar, buy two drinks, and move in front of the stage and start copulating madly and rip off your clothes,� he said. �When you hear us, you can�t help yourself. �You need to get out of your mind, whether it be on illegal narcotics or legal beverages,� he said. �There is mad copulating that goes on, and people just rip off their clothes and start doing lurid acts there in front of the stage, on the stage and backstage... hopefully.� As for why the band needs 30 or so members, Clem said it was to ensure there were always enough guitarists to go around. �It�s a war of attrition, you see,� he said. �There is actually 72 members of White Cowbell Oklahoma at any given time. �We have so many guitar players so that if somebody goes down, or somebody gets put behind bars, or one guy wakes up and can�t even remember his name from all the drugs he took, it�s all right, we leave him behind, I say,� Clem said. �As long as at least 10 guys gets on stage and rocks your mind, and inspires a whole bunch of naked breasts to be bared on-stage for the rest of the audience, then it is fine by me.� The band has been known to sonically attack audiences with no less than nine wailing guitars on stage at once. �There is an assault of at least four electric guitar players at all times, and we have had up to nine guitar players on stage,� he said. �We�ve had up to three drummers at once, too, including on multiple occasions in Toronto we had members of the Tragically Hip, Barenaked Ladies and Sloan play with us. �We do not just play to you, we assault you, we fight you, we rape your minds and your ears and your senses,� he said. �It�s just quite insane.� THE LUCKY BAR: This will be the show of the year. Hopefully we will still be standing at the end of it. Ben. - Fri, 2 Jul 2004 4:39pm | ||
| lucky bar User Info... | Tickets will be on sale Monday at Lyle's and Ditch. - Sat, 3 Jul 2004 1:57pm | ||
| The Other Nick User Info... | white cowbell oklahoma slay. go to their website to get an idea of their antics. i think its http://www.whitecowbell.com - Sat, 3 Jul 2004 2:11pm | ||
| Sandor User Info... | ARGH! Fuck I hate being a minor! - Sun, 4 Jul 2004 8:18am | ||
| Lucky Bar User Info... |  Ben - Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:21pm | ||
| Nik Olaz User Info... | both bands are good. - Wed, 7 Jul 2004 4:13pm | ||
| Livevic Scott User Info... | Yeah I saw Icarus line a couple years ago at Logans (then Thursdays) and they were pretty cool, this is gonna be a really fun show to watch! - Fri, 9 Jul 2004 8:50pm | ||
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