Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Cream Calendar A Couple Items of Local Punk News: Jay Reatard and Jeffrey Novak
Posted by Emily Bartlett Hines on Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Earlier, P. Rodg expressed worry about not having anything to do on July 11. I had a similar problem, but with July 9. My concerns have been assuaged by an email missive I received from a certain Jay Reatard, explaining the deatails of his upcoming tour, which will include a stop at The End on the 9th. The Memphis garage punker has "just completed" his new album, according to Matador Records' website; presumably it will come out around the same time.
Reatard is touring with TV Smith of British punk band the Adverts. The decision to bring Smith along makes perfect sense, considering how much the two bands have in common. Reatard's sound shares the same blend of sinister paranoia and big, catchy hooks that the earlier group created on their classic 1978 album Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts. According to Smith's website, we should "expect a solo show and some songs with Jay and band." It will be pretty good, I think. Six or eight years ago, I saw TV Smith play a show at the Velvet Lounge in Washington, D.C. He turned out to be a charming and friendly man who played an energetic mix of new material and old stuff like "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" and "Bored Teenagers."
The End is rather a small venue for a recording artist of Jay's stature; but with two-and-a-half months' advance notice, maybe we'll be able to get there before it fills up. Should you doubt that you need to get excited at this early date, just watch these videos from one of their recent shows. Sick as hell, right?
In related news, Hendersonville, Tennessee's Jeffrey Novak has released his first single on Reatard's Shattered Records. Novak is the frontman for Nashville's Cheap Time, but explains his motives thusly: "I got tired of playing with other people for a while, so I decided to record some solo stuff alone in my bedroom on my 8-track." You can listen to the single here, and, like, download it (for $1.98) if you like it. What do you think?
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Jay is recording Novak's new album as well, which will be released on In the Red from what I have heard. If it's anything like the direction he's taken on After the Ball, it should be pretty awesome.
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Jeffrey's from HendersoN to the West not H'ville to the North fyi. Also... the End is too small for this show, probably.
I still don't know how Cheap Time are a Nashville band. I see them more often in Memphis than I do in Nashville, and I try to see them every time they're here.
who is this emily hines character? this is actually a well-written informative piece, and it caught my attention enough to scroll up and see who the author was.
this chick needs to write for the cream waaay more often
ok NOW The End is too small for this line-up.
we like it that way though, don't we?
Honestly I think the End might be the most suitable place. I thought the Mercy Lounge was gonna be a lot more packed than it was the last time he played, even with a writeup in the Scene, Cheap Time opening, and me flyering the HELL out of that show. I'd say it was maybe a third-to-half capacity. Pretty disappointing.
Blood Visions is still one of my top 10 records for the aughts so far, and his new stuff will probably bring a more mainstream audience to his music. I hope that means a bigger crowd, because with JEFF opening this is a really solid bill.
"well written piece emily. i like the range of your brow."
All asskissing aside,it's not very well written if some of the information is incorrect is it.
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