08/09/2024
Nottingham Record Co-op & Gr**go Records present...
REDD KROSS + DALE CROVER
at The Boat Club, Trentside North, Nottingham NG2 5FJ
Sunday 13th Ocotber, Doors 7.30pm
£20 adv from https://linktr.ee/nottinghamrecordcoop
All ages welcome
REDD KROSS
Redd Kross have devoted their career to making subversive entertainment in a high pop celebrity style, reintroducing forbidden classic-rock tropes as melodies, harmonies, ripping musicianship, & primary colors-stuff that had (largely) been ditched in the underground rock's post-punk, No Wave, hardcore, & sensitive-egghead scenes. In their Phaseshifter era, they were the first proper band I ever went to see play live. It left an indelible mark! Having them play in Nottingham feels like coming full circle.
In 1979, two school-kids all hopped-up on punk-rock started their own group in their hometown of Hawthorne, Los Angeles (birthplace of the Beach Boys) and soon found themselves opening shows for notorious scene pioneers Black Flag. Jeff McDonald was 15, his brother Steven only 11. But that didn’t stop their group from becoming one of the most remarkable, enduring and unique outfits punk- rock ever belched up.
2024, then, marks Redd Kross’s 45th birthday – an important anniversary for any group whose heart pulses at 45RPM – and the brothers are celebrating the event with a veritable multimedia extravaganza. There’s a memoir, Now You’re One Of Us, due in November, author Dan Epstein telling the group’s story in the McDonalds’ unmistakable (and occasionally contrary) voices. A brilliant rockumentary, Born Innocent, directed by Andrew Reich, will premiere later in the year. Most exciting of all, a new album – an eponymous double-album, no less, packed with 18 of their sharpest, most addictive songs yet – has hit the racks, courtesy of In The Red Records.
https://reddkross.bandcamp.com/
DALE CROVER
The legendary Melvins, Nirvana and Redd Kross drummer flying solo, with a new album out on Joyful Noise which moves from Nuggets-y garage rock to crafty proto-metal riffage and gorgeously hazy psych-pop.