16 albums in 14 years is prolific by anyone’s standards!įrontman Dick Valentine jokes about this soon after the band arrive on stage. That’s not to say they’ve been on hiatus, or taking it easy this year, they have already released their 15th album, and plan to release their 16th before years end, all since 2003. Hailing from Detroit, 6-piece Electric Six have largely flown under the radar since their flirtation with the mainstream back in 2003 with Danger! High Voltage and the hilarious Gay Bar. And that’s before the crowd packs in for tonight’s headliner. My camera lens fogs up almost instantly, rendering it unusable for most of the evening. By the time I arrive towards the end of support band Groves‘ set, it’s essentially a sauna… with a similar lack of ventilation. In terms of the latter, it’s basically one of those hip bars along St Denis, a few steps down from the sidewalk, and it’s abundant in cool and character, but seriously lacking in one thing: air conditioning. Curiosity to see how the band that rocketed into the mainstream in 2003 with those two songs are faring 14 years later, and curiosity to check out this new venue I keep hearing about, Bar l’Escogriffe. It was mostly curiosity that drove me to tonight’s show.
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