December 2, 2009 8pm
The Summit
2210 Summit St.
(614) 268-9377
$8 adv / $10 door
Ages 18+ - under 21 $2 surcharge at the door
Holly Golightly and The Brokeoffs
http://hollygolightly.com/
Holly started her musical career as a co-founder member of all girl garage band Thee Headcoatees, who were Thee Headcoats splinter group in 1991. Holly made her first solo album, The Good Things, in 1995.
Although often connected with garage rock, Holly’s music is more a mixture of pre-rock electric country blues, folk and less frantic rock & roll. It brings to mind a bourbon soaked honky tonk bar, evenings on a dusty front porch with your faithful hound, cracked hearts and foot stomping good times. She creates a world all of her own, one that’s warm hearted, true to it’s roots and not swayed by fads and fashions.
Since her debut in 1995, Ms Golightly has been a rather prolific lass, releasing 14 long play solo records and umpteen singles (too many to list here) for a wide variety of labels and has toured America, Australia, New Zealand and Europe regularly.
Holly has collaborated with all kinds of folks, including the 1999 release with Billy Childish ‘In Blood’, on which the two gleefully celebrate one chord, one sound, one song. Another notable collaboration is 2001’s ‘Desperate Little Town’ with Dan Melchior. After playing with The White Stripes in the USA, and supporting them at a few London shows, the three of them became friends, and the trio recorded ‘It’s True That We Love One Another’, for the White Stripes album Elephant. Holly has also recorded with The Greenhornes and they released a special Christmas 2002 single together on Damaged Goods called Little Stars. Holly also appears on the Greenhornes album Dual Mono. She has also been a guest vocalist on various other bands projects, including live with Mudhoney and Rocket From The Crypt, appearing on several releases with them. On the b-side of her 7″ Walk A Mile, there’s an exclusive duet, ‘Don’t Fuck Around With Love’, featuring the ever-so wonderful Sexton Ming. And well worth a listen is her guest vocal on The Flaming Stars new album, ‘Born Under A Bad Neon Sign’.
Holly also sings the title song, ‘Theres An End’, for the recent Jim Jarmusch movie Broken Flowers and has another song included on the movie sountrack.
Hollys Christmas 7″ single for 2006, ‘Christmas Tree On Fire’, was something of a live sensation over the holiday period at her London shows.
Most recently, Holly and her long-time US band mate Lawyer Dave, have a new side project under the guise of Holly Golightly and The Brokeoffs. Their debut album ‘You Can’t Buy A Gun When You’re Crying’ was released on Damaged Goods Records in March 2007. They toured the USA and Europe extensively throughout 2007 and are now recording some new songs for a next record.
A new Holly Golightly and The Brokeoffs album is expected in early 2010.
The Blakes
http://myspace.com/theblakes
‘Who’s this? This shit is good!’ - IGGY POP
Soak the Kinks in cheap booze, reignite the Stooges’ strut…gritty-yet-hazy rock music. - SPIN
Swampy guitars, twitchy rhythms, and power-pop vocal harmonies! - PitchforkMedia.com
Breakout stars. - Filter Magazine
The Blakes, praised by Pitchfork for their “swampy guitars, twitchy rhythms and power pop vocal harmonies”, recall the stinging catchiness of early Who, Kinks, and other spitfire rock bands. With the influences of Hank Williams and Brian Wilson hanging from their sleeves, brothers Garnet and Snow Keim busked across America, scribbling songs in hostels and motel bathrooms, en route to Seattle. There they met animalistic, drummer Bob Husak in a local coffee shop, and The Blakes were born. The dynamic threesome hit the road and have been bringing gritty rock and roll to the masses ever since. Mixed and mastered by Martin Feveyear (Kings of Leon, Cornershop, Mudhoney), the band’s single has arrived in the form of a limited edition 7″ featuring the raucous growl of “Two Times” and the poppy burst of non-album b-side “Die.
Angela Perley
http://myspace.com/angelaperley
Don’t be fooled by Angela Perley’s youthfulness and honeyed disposition; she and her country-fried indie rock mean business. A native of Hilliard, she began her musical career while attending Ohio University. She played in Athens folk-rock bands Vintage Green and Scarlet and the Yellow Moons before moving back earlier this year to dive into the Columbus music scene.
With an all-star band featuring guitarist Chris Connor (The Muzzleloaders, John Mullins Band); keyboardist Nate Hollman (The Muzzleloaders, John Mullins Band, Screamin’ Peach); bassist Billy Zehnal (Playhouse, The World-Famous Weedeaters); and drummer Jesse Cooper (The Receiver), Angela feels immensely grateful to play with such skilled musicians. “The guys in my band understand what I’m doing and really connect to it,” she said. “They’re so talented that when I play a song they immediately know what to do.”
Angela wears vintage hoedown dresses and speaks lovingly about her custom-made Dobro. After staring at it for months in the window of an Athens music store she traded two guitars for it. “I just fell in love with it,” she said. “It’s my little piece of Athens.” Her music is deeply influenced by Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, but her lyrics are inspired by the phases of the moon, the change of seasons — and cold-blooded murder. Last month she won a songwriting contest in Marietta for her murder ballad “In Bisbee” about an Arizona cowboy who fancies the mayor’s wife and winds up in a shootout.
After writing nearly 80 songs in the past year, Angela has worked intently on honing her old timey sound. She likes recording at home all in one take, sometimes on her porch to get birds in the background or in her bathroom for extra reverb. For years she packaged her homemade recordings in decorated brown paper bags and handed them out for free. She’s currently recording her first full-length album with Vital Music Records in Grandview and hopes to release it by Thanksgiving. She frequently pops into open-mic nights at The Thirsty Ear and The Treehouse. “They’re a great way to experiment with new material,” she said. “I feel like I have a lot more work to do and want to keep moving forward.” - Alex Kelley, Columbus underground