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The King Khan & BBQ Show - On sale Friday!
09 Sep, 2009
Foundation Concerts & Timbre are very pleased to announce a couple of dates with one of the best garage duo's The King Khan & BBQ Show, in Calgary and Edmonton. The duo will be on their CD release tour for their new album "Invisible Girl", due November 3 from In the Red in the U.S. As evidenced by the leaked title track, Invisible Girl has all the primitive 60s punk stomp you'd expect, plus some old-school harmonic sweetness. Joining the duo are supporting acts Those Darlins and Sub-Linguals.
Now, I could tell you about Mark Sultan, I mean, BBQ's past in bands like Les Sexareenos or The Spaceshits, and that his new album will be out soon on Bomp. I could tell you about King Khan's pseudo-celebrity in Europe, or his past in The Spaceshits. These names and facts probably mean nothing to you. Let's talk about the real nitty gritty - The King Khan & BBQ Show. First, I must say that these guys are blood brothers, man. Real tight. They played all over the place before in an aforementioned band outta Montreal. And they're the best of friends to this day. When King Khan (then 'Blacksnake') decided to stay in the land of kraut and honey, they always maintained that they would soon lay waste to this miserable world. Songs flowed endlessly like blood from a cancerous abscess. They took it easy, honing their craft, playing sporadically around Germany and Spain to crowds outraged by their incredible sound and nasty live show. Orgiastic, anarchic, hypnotic and personal are the shows to this day. Two guys. One smashing snare, bass drum and tambourine with his bare feet, molesting his guitar and singing like a possessed angel. The other spinning and howling like a freak while belting it out on his guitar like a real gone savage. What does it all sound like? It sounds like five men. People throw the typical suspects into their descriptions as a defense against the real sound: The Velvet Underground, 13th Floor Elevators, Black Flag, The Falcons, Sam Cooke, The Users, The Sonics, The Cramps, Bo, Jerry Lee, The Gonn... Their sound is all of this and more, but all of their own. The show? A mess. Love songs, punkers, improvised riot-starters, dance-floor shakers, sing-along stompers, wild rockers - you name it. They always drench the crowd in raw energy, and they're always the last ones dancing and drinking at the bar.
The King Khan & BBQ Show w/ Those Darlins and Sub-Linguals Wednesday, November 25 - Warehouse, Calgary Thursday, November 26 - The Pawn Shop, Edmonton Tickets are $18 advance at Ticketmaster, Megatunes, Sloth (Calgary) & Blackbyrd (Edmonton) ON SALE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 AT 10AM presented by Timbre & Foundation