Holly Golightly and The Brokeoffs @ Hi Dive, Denver CO, 2010-04-27

First and only time I have seen Holly Golightly.  If your unfamiliar she came up during the 90s in the UK through an association with Thee Headcoats and Billy Childish.  Some of her stuff is more garage rock but she has a ton of releases so it is all over the place.  

This show featured her more country side  project The Brokeoffs with her long time partner Dave Drake.  Holly doesn't tour much but the recorded output is impressive.  There are 10 Brokeoffs albums.

Holly and Dave are full of good stories and banter through out the set.  The thread about not being welcome back in Utah is amusing.  Lots of fantastic songs from across the catalog,

Crowd is a bit chatty on this Wednesday night but not intrusively.  Fun listen.  Enjoy.

Holly Golightly and The Brokeoffs

Hi Dive

Denver CO (USA)

2010-04-27

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Source: AT933 >SP-SPSB-1 > M10

Transfer: M10 > USB > Adobe Audition > CDWave > FLAC 

Run time: (66:13.49)

01 - intro -

02 Crow Jane

03 My 45

04 You Can't Buy a Gun When You're Crying

05 Devil Do

06 - interlude -

07 Time To Go

08 Blood On The Saddle

09 - interlude -

10 When He Comes

11 Medicine County

12 Bottom Below

13 - interlude -

14 Mother Earth

15 Won't Go Out

16 Just Around The Bend

17 I Wanna Hug Ya, Kiss Ya, Squeeze Ya

18 Escalator

19 Gettin' High For Jesus

20 - encore -

21 Black Night

22 Boat's Up The River

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Messer Chups @ Streets Of London, Denver CO, 2018-10-16

Messer Chups is an interesting group.  An experimental, slightly jazzy, surf rock band from St Petersburg Russia.  Led by Oleg Gitarkin they been putting out albums under this moniker since 1999 when it began as a spin-off of his other band Messer für Frau Müller.  

Those Messer für Frau Müller albums going back to 1991 and the early Messer Chups albums have a lot of samples and fit more into the experimental category than later Messer Chups releases which are more straight ahead surf rock.  A friend turned me onto them around 2015 and I saw them live at the Tiki Oasis fest in 2016.  Been hooked ever since.

This was the 2nd of two shows that they played at Streets of London, now just Streets, back in 2018.  I had tickets for both but blew off the first night.  I regret that a little bit now.  I believe that these were their first ever Denver appearances.

If you dig this hit up their band camp pages and grab one of their many releases.  Keep supporting independent music, artists, and venues anyway you can these days. Eventually we will get through this current pandemic and will be ready to rock live and in person once again.

Enjoy

Messer Chups

Streets Of London

Denver CO (USA)

2018-10-16

Recorded and Presented: SxPxDxCx

Source: AT933 >SP-SPSB-1 > M10

Transfer: M10 > USB > Adobe Audition > CDWave > FLAC 

Run time: (42:10.09)

01 Dick Tracy

02 - unknown title -

03 Midnight Call 

04 Rockin’ Zombie

05 The World We Knew

06 Insomnia of the Mummies

07 Jokermobile

08 Green Flippers

09 Theme From "The Munsters" 

10 Dracula Hates Photoshoots

11 Das Boot

12 They Call Me Zombie

13 Magneto

14 Popcorno

15 Stampede

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John Doe & The Sadies @ Lion's Lair, Denver CO, 2009-07-28

This was a fun one.  John Doe fronting a band comprised of The Sadies.  John Doe is from X of course and if your not familiar with The Sadies they are a long running Canadian rock/county band started by the Good brothers in 1994.  They have a big catalog that is worth exploring.

In 2009 they put out an album called Country Club that features a ton of cover songs from known and not so known country artists.  Good stuff.

At this show they played many of those tracks and did some X, John Doe solo, and Sadies songs too.

The Lion's Lair is tiny and recordings from their can features plenty of bar room atmosphere but this is mostly free from that.  You hear the occasional bottle clinking and some crowd chatter but during the music I think this sounds fantastic.  I wish I could remember where I setup my mics for this.

Enjoy

John Doe & The Sadies

The (Worlds Famous) Lion's Lair

Denver CO (USA)

2009-07-28

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Source: MBHO KA-200N > JK Labs DVC-V12 > JB3 

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Time (79:48.36)

01 Stop The World And Let Me Off (Carl Belew)

02 It Just Dawned On Me (X)

03 - they don't get it -

04 Help Me Make It Through The Night (Kris Kristofferson)

05 Going Down The Red River (Gun Club)

06 The Have Nots (X)

07 Big Iron (Marty Robbins)

08 Husbands And Wives (Roger Miller)

09 - The Losing Kind intro -

10 The Losing Kind  (John Doe)

11 Take These Chains from My Heart (Hank Williams)

12 Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver) (Merle Haggard)

13 Detroit City (Billy Grammer)

14 A Fool Such As I (Hank Snow)

15 I Still Miss Someone (Johnny Cash)

16 Old Moss Back (Jim Oertling)

17 The Night Life (Willie Nelson)

18 Working Man Blues (Merle Haggard)

19 The New World (X)

20 Tiger Tiger (The Sadies)

21 - encore -

22 The Cold Hard Facts of Life (Porter Wagoner)

23 Anna Leigh (The Sadies)

24 The Sudbury Nickel (John Doe & The Sadies)

25 There Stands The Glass (Blaine Smith)

26 Call Of The Wrecking Ball (The Knitters)

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