The Sailor Jerry Blog

11/10/2008

The Homosexuals Play Philly This Friday (11/14)!

This band was the HIGHLIGHT of last year's SXSW (as can be witnessed in the picture above and video below!) and I can't wait to see them again!

Here's a bit about them if you're unfamiliar:

"The Homosexuals lived and played in London in the late '70s and early '80s, and the evidence suggests that they were magnificent—as potent and visionary as Wire or Pere Ubu. So how come nobody's ever heard of them? In part because they'd do anything to avoid the obvious, to the point of perversity. Their name could barely be printed on a fanzine cover; they never really made an album, and nothing by them was even on CD until this year. Two singles, one sleeveless EP, a pile of pseudonymous releases and side projects and cassettes (all heretofore condemned to collector hell by their radiance and rarity)—really, most of what's left of them is their ephemera. The Homosexuals' Record, a posthumous collection of half-disintegrated work tapes (mostly slammed out live in a friend's studio after the Police had left for the night), finally went digital a few months ago, but Astral Glamour is the total experience: three discs' worth of everything extant involving two of the band's three principals, guitarists Bruno McQuillan and Anton Hayman. (The third, bass monster Jim Welton, a/k/a L. Voag, a/k/a Amos, deserves his own anthology.)

The show is at Danger Danger (5013 Balitmore Ave, West Philly) and, if everything goes as planned, should be life altering!