WE’VE GOT TWO PAIRS OF TICKETS TO GIVE AWAY. COMMENT BELOW WITH YOUR FAVORITE BAND T-SHIRT THAT YOU OWN OR HAVE OWNED (i.e. Dando’s Lou Reed t-shirt above). SHOW IS MONDAY NIGHT, SO WE WILL SHOOT THE WINNERS AN EMAIL ON SUNDAY. GOOD LUCK!
WFPK Presents
It’s A Shame About Ray Tour 2012
The Lemonheads with Meredith Sheldon & Deer Meet
Doors at 8pm / 18 and over
Special 4 pack discount – buy 3 tickets, get one free
Show Time: 9:00 pm
BUY TIX HERE – $15
About The Lemonheads (if you didn’t already know):
The Lemonheads:
Evan Griffith Dando formed The Lemonheads with two high school buddies in late winter ’86, in their senior year at Boston’s tiny Commonwealth School. A few months later, they spawned what is now one of the most sought-after punk relics of the 80s, the indie EP Laughing All the Way to the Cleaners. Boston-based Taang! Records immediately picked up on The Lemonheads, with three college radio pleasers to follow: the LPs Hate Your Friends (1987), Creator (1988), and Lick (1989). In 1990 Atlantic Records took notice of the massively expanding Lemonheads fanbase in Europe (where they toured in 1989) and America by signing the band and releasing their well-received (in Cambridge, Massachusetts) fourth LP, Lovey.
Even by this time, The Lemonheads lineup had been volatile: more than a dozen different configurations over a period of just five years, all sorts of bit parts and reshuffles, with Dando as the only constant. At one point it got so confusing that an ex-drummer, just a week after getting kicked of the group, answered The Lemonheads’ ad to replace himself. By a conservative estimate, the band has had more than ten bass players and at least a dozen drummers over the years.
But out of this primordial chaos came a veritable Golden Age for The Lemonheads. A 1991 tour brought Evan to Australia, where by chance he met songwriter Tom Morgan and future Lemonheads bassist Nic Dalton. Their collaboration made all the difference for the next Atlantic release, It’s a Shame About Ray (1992), a concentrated blast of pure pop perfection that clocks in at just under 30 minutes. Thanks to songs such as “Confetti”, “My Drug Buddy”, “Rudderless”, and “Ceiling Fan in My Spoon”, Dando hit a whole new audience (“they’re getting younger,” he confessed to Kathie Lee Gifford at the time).
6 comments
Luke B. says:
March 2, 2012 at 3:50 pm (UTC -4)
Smashing Pumpkins MCIS tour shirt
Ashley says:
March 2, 2012 at 5:45 pm (UTC -4)
Oasis ringer tee
Jerry Scrogham says:
March 2, 2012 at 9:44 pm (UTC -4)
’94 Lollapalooza Tour. I wore that shirt out. Great lineup.
jb says:
March 3, 2012 at 6:55 pm (UTC -4)
pixies lost cities tour 2011
Carrie says:
March 4, 2012 at 12:41 pm (UTC -4)
Guns n Roses…Jump Into the Ring Mother F****r
Meghan Greenwell says:
March 4, 2012 at 3:14 pm (UTC -4)
Wilco shirt that came from a show in Minneapolis I drove 11 hours to see!