(tiny) world dominators II

Swedish Fetus Lounge
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Swedish Fetish
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The Golden Dogs

Mailing List Show – Cameron House
Apr 21/05

WHAT IF there was a band who had opened for The Libertines, Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, and Bloc Party all in the space of a few months, yet still orbited outside the indie rock snob consciousness, yet ALSO seemingly slayed a fair proportion of people into salivating horny fanatics through each performance?

WHAT IF this same very band invited 40 or so of these salivators to the Cameron House, outfitted them with fake name tages, face masks, and (not really necessary) noisemakers? And then proceeded to play Ukuleles for 30 minutes, including a very stirring rendition of Neil Young’s Helpless?

Yes that would be the Dogs, a band completely uncaring of cool factor and wholly committed to having fun on stage. Shocking, really, but the fun is infectious, especially when the stage partially catches fire(!) during a cover of Wings’ 1985 and keyboardist Jessica Grassia puts it out as if its an everyday occurrence.

How many lead singer/madmen guitarists out there proceed to the back of the club to complete a guitar solo, on the laps of 3 fans, while drinking their beer? Dave Azzolini is a true mad hatter, and seems perfectly in his element in the above situation just as much as crouching over a microphone and ukulele while wearing giant toy sunglasses.

World domination has never been this fun. Get on it already.

also: yes Nana, I'm reading blink too!