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Wig Wam Bam number 70
October, 2005

LOCAL SHOWS
NM venues, bands from here or there


HOLIDAY SAIL 8/17/05 Launchpad


Ok, I’m a close-minded jerk ‘cause I kept thinking Holiday Sail was emo without even listening to the MP3s. Well, smack me upside the head with a backpack holding a water bottle, a pile of chapbooks and a pack of Skittles candy because it was not even remotely teensy-weensy close to that. Sure, I coulda done without the last reggae-style number (I can always do without reggae, with the exception of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare). But otherwise it was an inspired contrast of Rob-o-rama’s old school rahr-rahr-rahr punkcore (both vocally and on guitar) and Minie’s acousti-sweet vox.

I kept thinking Josie & the Pussycats (no not that piece of crap movie but the soulful 70s kiddie TV tunes) and maybe a dash of alternarock’s Letters To Cleo (a conundrum in itself since Cleo’s Kaye Hanley was responsible for the Pussycats movie soundtrack but it really wasn’t her style at’all). And all tempered with some early Maximum Rock n’ Roll growl.

Add their lightning-pop drummer and the set was satisfying as can be. I’m sold on the Holiday Sail.