Anne’s Shore & More #28 – Feb 22 2012

Anne’s Shore & More #28 – Feb 22 2012

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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE WEEK


This Friday night offers plenty in the way of live music in the New London area. The Oasis Pub seems to be booking more music shows lately, and hopefully this trend will continue. The club will have bands on both Friday and Saturday nights this week. On Friday, local favorites Pretty and Nice (http://prettyandnice.com/) will return to the Oasis. The band is from Boston, but they play in New London fairly often. Friday’s show will be the first of their month-long cross country tour.  Also on the bill are one of New London’s best-known bands, Fatal Film (http://fatalfilm.com/), and new local band Hind Legs, who will be playing what I believe is their third show. The music will probably get started around 10:30, and the cover is usually $5.

Also on Friday night, Girls Guns and Glory (http://www.girlsgunsandglory.com/) will be back at the Side Pocket Cafe in Groton for another Blue Collar Happy Hour. These guys always pack the place when they play here, so it should be a great night. I was finally able to see their complete show a couple of months ago, and even though I’ve heard a lot of music from their CDs (they have 4 full-length albums), I was really impressed by just how good they are live. They have been playing various clubs in this area for years and they have a lot of fans in the New London scene. In addition, they played the very first Blue Collar Happy Hour after the series moved to its current home at the Side Pocket. Ward Hayden’s original songs are great, and you might also hear them throw in a Hank Williams tune or two. I believe they did three sets the last time I saw them, and it seemed like they could have kept going for awhile longer. Girls Guns and Glory is an excellent rockin’ honky-tonk band with roots in the good old days of country music. If that sounds like your sort of thing (and if not, why?), then this is your show. Roy Dunn MacLean opens at 7 pm, followed by Girls Guns and Glory at 8 pm. There is no cover.

The Sue Menhart Band (http://www.suemenhart.com/fr_home.cfm) will be playing at Burke’s Tavern in Niantic on Friday night. Sue made a surprise guest appearance singing “Even Her Eyes” with the Hoolios at the Side Pocket last Friday and absolutely killed it. Later in the set Kevin Clark (husband and drummer) even jumped on stage to play rub-board for a few songs. Great fun! Sue has been playing a ton of shows and getting a lot of well-deserved local press lately. The show starts at 7 pm, and (I think) there’s no cover.

If that weren’t enough choices for Friday night, Vince Thompson and friends (www.reverbnation.com/vincethompson) also have a gig at the Voodoo Grill in downtown Mystic. Vince will have Bob Metzger (from Leonard Cohen’s band) on guitar and vocals, Lou Bocciarelli on upright bass, and Jim Gwin on drums. This show starts around 9 pm and they’ll play until about midnight.

On Saturday, Rhode Island folk/Americana band Brown Bird (www.brownbird.net) returns to the Oasis Pub. Last time I saw them there, the band was a five-piece, but they are now playing as a duo, with David Lamb on guitar, banjo, percussion, and vocals, and Morganeve Swain on fiddle, cello, upright bass, and vocals. Their most recent album, released this past fall, is called Salt for Salt. New Londoners Daphne Lee Martin and Raise the Rent are also on the bill.

Here is Fatal Film performing “Meet Market” at the Elm Bar in New Haven:

 

 

CONCERT CALENDAR     
Wed 2/22/12   – Jay Dempsey Band at the Knickerbocker Cafe in Westerly 8 pm NO COVER

- Richard Buckner, the Backyard Committee at BAR in New Haven 9pm NO COVER

 

Thur 2/23/12  – Sandman and friends at Sneekers Cafe in Groton 7 pm

- Sam Bigelow at Cafe Nine in New Haven 9:30 pm

 

Fri 2/24/12      – Blue Collar Happy Hour with Girls Guns and Glory at the Side Pocket Cafe in Groton 7-11 pm NO COVER

- Pretty and Nice, Hind Legs, Fatal Film at the Oasis Pub in New London

- Sue Menhart Band at Burke’s Tavern in Niantic 7 pm

- Vince Thompson and friends at Voodoo Grill in Mystic 9 pm

- Mates of State, the Stepkids, Sean Bones at Intercambio in New Haven (756 Chapel Street) 8 pm

- Nick Depuy at Cafe Nine in New Haven 8:30 pm

- Five in the Chamber, Cinnamon Sky at Cafe Nine in New Haven 10 pm

- Little Ugly at Stella Blues in New Haven

- Gameday Regulars, the Tired and True, Fourth and Goal at Elm Bar in New Haven

- John Fries and the Heat at the Hungry Tiger in Manchester 10 pm

- Shai Hulud at the Heirloom Arts Theatre in Danbury 6 pm

 

Sat 2/25/12      – Brown Bird, Daphne Lee Martin and Raise the Rent at the Oasis Pub in New London

- Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez at Cafe Nine in New Haven 9pm

- Viva La Vox, Filthy Still at Elm Bar in New Haven

- Pianos Become the Teeth, Xerxes, the World is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die, the Saddest Landscape, Wess meets West at the Space in Hamden 7 pm

- The Bittersweet Vine, Uncle Shamus at Two Boots in Bridgeport 9:30pm

 

Sun 2/26/12    – Islands, Idiot Glee, Modern Merchant at the Space in Hamden 7pm

- Short Handed Goal, the Toasters, Senior Discount, the Rudie Crew, the Copasetics at PVD Social Club in Providence 6 pm

 

Tues 2/28/12   – Milksop:Unsung at Cafe Nine in New Haven 9 pm

- Matt Pryor, the Front Bottoms, Zac Clark & Young Volcanoes at Lilly’s Pad (Toad’s Place Upstairs) in New Haven 7 pm

- The Alehounds, Tragically Said at Elm Bar in New Haven NO COVER

- Julia Nunes, Mike Falzone at the Space in Hamden 7 pm

 

Wed 2/29/12   – Saint Motel, Stout Cortez at BAR in New Haven 9 pm NO COVER

- 1974, Ghost of Chance at Cafe Nine in New Haven 9 pm

 

Thur 3/1/12    - Jim Carpenter and friends at Sneekers Cafe in Groton 7pm

- Celebrated Tigers at Cafe Nine in New Haven 9 pm

 

Fri 3/2/12        – Blue Collar Happy Hour with the Mallett Brothers Band at the Side Pocket Cafe in Groton 7-11pm NO COVER

- Black 47 at the Knickerbocker Cafe in Westerly 9pm

- Scott Kelly, Eugene Robinson (Spoken Word) at Cafe Nine in New Haven 9 pm

- Sneaky Castro, 27 Prophets, FOOD at Elm Bar in New Haven

 

Sat 3/3/12        – Sinner’s Circle Vol. XVI with Ian Meadows, Molly Bowers, Ian Maxwell, Trevor Giles at Bean and Leaf in New London 7:30-9:30 pm

- The Saw Doctors at the Wolf Den in Uncasville 8 pm

- Rope, the Mold Monkeys, the Furors at Elm Bar in New Haven

- Ferocious Fucking Teeth, the Naked Heroes, Space Orphans at Cafe Nine in New Haven 9pm

- Bear in Heaven, Slam Donahue, DBK at the Space in Hamden 7 pm

 

 

Anne Castellano is a New London songwriter and musician who has played in several bands over the years (the Uninformed, the Skin Walkers, and the Cavities). She is currently performing as a solo artist but is planning on putting a band together very soon. In 2010 she released a full-length self-produced CD entitled “What’s Been Going On” on the New London-based Cosmodemonic Telegraph label. She is a 30-year veteran of college radio, and is currently doing the Deranged Radio Show on alternate Tuesday evenings from 6-9pm at WCNI 90.9 FM in New London. She grew up in New Fairfield, CT in a musical family, with a father who played guitar and listened to country artists such as Hank Williams and Patsy Cline, and a mother who loved Elvis Presley. Involvement in band and chorus in high school led to membership in the UCONN Marching Band and a two-week tour of Europe performing with the band in the early 1980s. Anne moved to New London in 1987 because of the vibrant local music scene there. In 2005 she began putting together a concert calendar to get the word out about all the local band shows that were taking place in the area. She enjoys books, animals, hiking, and the beach, and sees as much live music as her “day job” schedule permits.

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