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Postponed until May 7
Fake Blind Date w/ Holly and the Nice Lions
VAX CARD OR COVID TEST REQUIRED FOR ENTRY!
Postponed until May 7
*Entry to this evening’s entertainment requires proof of vaccination, or proof of negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours of the show* Temperatures will be taken at the door.*
Midwestern music-makers FAKE BLIND DATE are an “alt-pop / eclecti-rock / punkabilly /outlaw-cowgirl / midnight-jazz-dive quartet.” (Yup—yet another one of those. Yawn.)
Ingredients: Milwaukee’s Kari Lueneberg aka Molli Putz, on guitar, lead vocal, and flute; journeyman bassist, singer, ‘n’ harmonica-slinger Paul McComas; unparalleled up-‘n’-comer Megan Rault on sax, flute, ‘n’ jazz vocal; and “Peter Van Eck a- drummin’ like HECK!”
FBD was conceived in May 2018 at Chicago’s Cafe Cabaret Uptown, hatched three months later at a Martyrs’ Club anti-rape benefit, dormant during 2020’s pandemic lockdown, and re-birthed (definitely not “born again”) in June 2021 at Montrose Saloon. A December ’21 live-online podcast benefiting the Ed Asner Family Center solidified the current lineup. Their prior 50/50 originals/covers ratio is tiltin’ toward their own songs as the band eyes an eponymous 2023 debut-album on Chicago Acoustic Underground’s CAUDog Records (the label that released Paul’s-&-Maya Kuper’s acclaimed 2017 Unplugged: A Survivor’s Story… Soundtrack).
Holly and the Nice Lions are a three-piece rock-n-roll monster named by one of front woman, Holly Trasti’s, young students. Their stage presence has been said to rival those of Iggy and the Stooges, Patti Smith, The MC5, and The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s. Their recorded efforts reflect a controlled chaos shining through their darkened and thunderous overtones. Drummer Travis Pashek hits like he is trying to move mountains sonically while keeping everything together. Bassist Steven Spoerl rides the line of melody maker and stark, percussive passion. Holly Trasti wields her guitar prowess with abandon while delivering vocals of the same manner. Holly and the Nice Lions are not suited to be a backdrop to an experience, but rather a band to be experienced.
Doors 7pm, show at 8pm. $10 Cover