Jackfruit @ The Casbah Nov 17th (late show)

[show---whore]

JackFruit

Nov 17th 2006 The Casbah Hamilton

W/TBA

For music check out

www.jackfruitmusic.com

http://www.myspace.com/jackfruit

check out there music, very interesting stuff. great lead vocals, great playing, and great songs.

Monster bass lines lurch around every smooth, molten piano roll taunting limbs to get up, get moving. Forging jazz, two-ton funk, drum n’ bass, and a maelstrom of motormouth lyrics Jackfruit has broken ties from genres and classifications that separate music by creating their own unique bricolage too mind-blowing to pigeon-hole.

After a couple of years at the drawing board and only months in practice, the Vancouver-based foursome took to Mushroom Studios to record their first and currently unreleased independent album that demands to be heard; Check Ça.

From forced screams to falsetto, the verbose Chris Berry (Slow Nerve Action/Duran Duran Duran) offers pointed commentary on politics, consumption, fashion, and roller-skating while synth-wizard Ian Lamont (Slow Nerve Action/Duran Duran Duran) speaks keyboard like his first language - alternating melodic, emotional jazz piano with quick blasts of warm screeching organ. Stéphane Fortin (Blue Quarter/Duran Duran Duran) attacks the bass delivering fireball riffs and growling funkiness as drummer Drew Vendetti (Trip) sets the pace through snappy snare shots and eruptions of stupefying swells.

November 7 - Baba's - Charlottetown, P.E.I

November 8 - Paramount -Moncton, New Brunswick

November 9 - Chuggles - Antigonish, Nova Scotia

November 10 - The Attic - Halifax, Nova Scotia

November 11 - Nep-Tunes - St. John, New Brunswick

November 14 - SKOOL - Collingwood, Ontario

November 15 - 3rd Floor Van Gogh's Ear - Guelph, Ontario w/ Duran Duran Duran

November 16 - Red Dog - Peterborough, Ontario w/ Duran Duran Duran

November 17 - The Casbah - Hamilton, Ontario (The late show)

November 18 - Cecils - North Bay , Ontario

[djmelbatoast]

Go see these guys all you east coast folks.

They are really good and lots of fun.

[StoneMtn]

In. No question.

These guys were the talk of Bonfire Fest in August.

I've seen them twice that I recall, and they are fantastic. Chris, alone, is something to see.

Be there. I will be.

DJMelba:

I still have to mail you some discs we spoke of (different band, not-thread-related). I have been remiss, but will send them this week.

[balogna pogna]

Will the singer be wearing a dildo on his head for this performance?

[Cully]

He wears it on his chin, for pleasure!!

[StoneMtn]

Ya know, in all the times I saw Slow Nerve Action, I don't think I ever actually saw Chris wearing an Accomodator on his chin. I feel ripped off, now that you mention it!

[afro poppa]

November 15 - 3rd Floor Van Gogh's Ear - Guelph, Ontario w/ Duran Duran Duran

nice!

[jayr]

Ya know, in all the times I saw Slow Nerve Action, I don't think I ever actually saw Chris wearing an Accomodator on his chin. I feel ripped off, now that you mention it!

According to legend the accomodator actually broke during one of their last tours. It was quite amusing while it lasted. I think Jackfruit is on a bit of a different plane than SNA was though.........

Can't wait until the 14th to finally see these guys.

Edited November 1, 2006 by Guest

[StoneMtn]

It's cool that Duran Duran Duran's opening, too. That's the one band of Chris's that I never did see, and I think they are technically broken up. (Although, most if not all of them are in Jackfruit, now.)