New 12 months’s Eve reveals and all-day music festivals are two of essentially the most egregious offenders on the subject of promising massive issues and delivering disappointment. Excessive cowl prices, costly drinks, obnoxious crowds and the like can bitter your expertise shortly. However then there are the exceptions. Welcomings of the brand new 12 months that really feel like nice massive home events with discovered household. Low-key, low-cost music fests that concentrate on native music and bands that play as a result of they love taking part in. Generally after we’re fortunate, we get each, as is the case with Bisbee-based First Pageant.
Now in its second 12 months of existence, the fest takes place in one in every of Bisbee’s favourite dives, the Hitching Publish and runs from midday to closing time on New 12 months’s Day, with 14 Tucson and Southern Arizona bands taking part in in roughly the order that follows:
- 12 pm – Hank Topless
- 2 pm – Borts Minorts
- 2:45 pm – Machine Oil
- 3:30 pm – the Freezing Arms
- 4:20 pm – Lemon Drop Gang
- 5:20 pm – Feminine Gaze
- 6 pm – the Web sites
- 6:20 pm – the Hen Lords
- 7 pm – Idiot Aloof/ Jimmy Descant
- 7:45 pm – Comfortable and the Ghosts
- 8:20 pm – the Soiled Licks
- 9 pm – Misplaced Okay
- 9:45 pm – Watercolor
- 10:20 pm – Awkward Moments
- 12 am – Sherbet & Champagne
Your pleasant scribe checked in with pageant organizer John Sweeden who additionally organizes the common Habitation Realty Speakeasy live performance sequence and performs guitar within the band the Web sites.
Tucson Sentinel: Hey, J.S., what is the take care of this First Pageant factor? And the way did all of it come collectively, anyway.
John Sweeden: “So it began final 12 months proper about this time. I had this loopy thought to attempt to throw collectively a last-minute music pageant for Soule. I knew of this bar (the Hitching Publish) in Bisbee that was form of sleepy and beneath new administration. So I requested if I might have January 1 to convey a bunch of bands down and play. After all they mentioned sure and so now that is the second 12 months for the primary pageant.”
TS: So, give us the deets!
J.S.: “It is on New 12 months’s Day, beginning at midday and it goes till 2 a.m. on January 2. This 12 months we’re asking for a $10 prompt donation on the door. The bar can be planning on contributing some cash, however all the cash will go to the bands identical to final 12 months. This 12 months it’s going to be very eclectic and the fest will most actually have a bit of little bit of one thing for everyone. For example, we’re introducing a horseshoe match from midday to 2 p.m. Hank Topless goes to play whereas that goes on, with Johnny O’Halloran serving because the gamekeeper. After that, from 2 p.m. until 2 a.m. there will likely be 12 hours of stay music contained in the membership. From midday on (until in all probability round 2 p.m.) we will likely be giving out free espresso and donuts whereas they final.
TS: Feels like a blast. I simply may see you there!
The Second Annual Bisbee First Pageant will happen on the Hitching Publish, 316 Pirrung Ave in Bisbee, starting at midday on Jan. 1, 2022. A $10 donation is requested on the door, with all proceeds going to the bands.
And, if you wish to make a weekend of it, head as much as Bisbee on New 12 months’s Eve to catch Bisbee’s most interesting, the Exbats, who’re headlining the New 12 months’s Eve “Liquid Gentle Present Occasion” with Treasure Mammal and Class. The present will begin at 9 p.m. in Brewery Gulch at 54 Brewery Ave, Bisbee.
In the meantime, again in Tucson, you possibly can take a look at one in every of these advantageous occasions and get again dwelling in time to consolation your fireworks weary pets:
- Miss Olivia’s New 12 months’s Eve Celebration – 8:30 p.m. Sea of Glass
- Noir 12 months’s Eve (that includes Xixa) – 8 pm Membership Congress
- Sophia Rankin & the Sound – 6:30 pm Tucson Occasions Sqaure (fifth St & Toole Ave.)
- The Bennu and Whiskey Treats – 9 pm 191 Toole
- New 12 months’s Eve with Golden Boots – 5 pm Westbound at MSA Annex
- Queer 12 months’s Eve 9 pm – The Rock
- Stranger Issues NYE Snow Ball – 9 pm Surly Wench
- New 12 months’s Eve Block Occasion 5 pm 400 E. Toole Ave
JJP’s native better of 2022 (reimagined as street journey motion pictures)
It is the time of the season when music writers get requested about their high releases for the 12 months and, as is custom, your trusty neighborhood music author has as soon as once more narrowed her high picks to native releases. Behold my high three native picks for 2022 (together with a fancifully imagined Nineteen Seventies B film trilogy to which they might function imaginary soundtracks.
Golden Boots – “Liquid Ranch”
Think about a few good hearted, good time boys with guitars and checkered shirts, packing up for a street journey circa 1976 or so in some form of cool however low key nameless Oldsmobuick with an additional highly effective antennae with which to choose up barely staticky AM radio indicators.
Now think about that antennae has an uncanny capability to hone in some form of unbelievable cross-country free-form radio station specializing in music from an uncanny valley someplace between power-pop and country-rock with a contact of classic psych-garage, some Crosby, Stills, Nash and typically Younger overtones, and lyrics that seemingly channel bizarre futuristic dispatches from alien guests, quasi-supernatural societal collapse and the post-apocalyptic reign of our future robotic overlords. And, unusual as that soundtrack might sound, you understand fairly shortly that it is catchy as hell and enjoyable to bop to.
This imagined movie and really actual album is the newest from Tucson’s personal Golden Boots and also you owe your self no less than as soon as hear.
Test it out for your self at https://goldenboots.bandcamp.com/album/liquid-ranch the place you can even purchase a digital obtain or order the album on vinyl or CD
Birds and Arrows – “Electrical Bones”
Now that your thoughts’s eye is hanging out in a mid -’70s cinematic universe, you may as nicely stick round for an additional native launch with an equally retro sound. To be honest, although, you may in all probability must flip your Oldsmobuick’s dial to the FM band for Birds and Arrows’ 2022 launch “Electrical Bones,” which would not be misplaced hanging out on the dial with bands like Coronary heart, Unhealthy Firm, Zeppelin, Skynyrd and Buckingham-flavored Fleetwood Mac. If the imaginary Boots film from the final evaluation went a bit of bit SciFi bizarre, be assured that this imaginary sequel is chock filled with road-house roughhousing, motorbike gangs, sketchy hitchhikers with hearts of gold and a shock unlikely love story that does not resolve until the film ends. It is roughly the proper accompaniment to a street journey of your personal.
You will discover this prime nugget of native ear sweet (and buy a duplicate when you’re so inclined) right here: https://birdsandarrows.bandcamp.com/album/electric-bones
Class – “Epoca de Los Vaqueros”
So now we have arrived on the third movie in our imagined street journey movie franchise, a lesser-known film that not many of us have seen, however is actually a cult basic. Get it, a CLASS-ic. We have arrived in NYC in about 1978 and we’re hanging out in a dingy membership that is form of a cut-rate model of CBGB attempting to win the cash to repair the Oldsmobuick in some form of insane battle of the bands with visitor appearances by the Ramones, some lesser Intercourse Pistols and a few down on their luck New York Dolls. Bebe Buell stars because the love curiosity and there is a bizarre cameo by Iggy Pop as a result of he wanted the cash. In actual life none of this ever occurred, however in my ears (and yours as soon as you have heard the report) it isn’t solely actual, it is value seeing time and again. In lieu of that, you may simply need to hear: https://nowthatsclass.bandcamp.com/album/epoca-de-los-vaqueros
Honorable mentions
Freezing Arms – “It Was a Good Run”: https://thefreezinghands.bandcamp.com/album/it-was-a-good-run
Abes Bones – “Caught within the Act”: https://abesbones.bandcamp.com/album/caught-in-the-act
Lenguas Largas – “Is This Nonetheless Laughing Hyenas?”: https://midtownislandrecords.bandcamp.com/album/is-this-still-laughing-hyenas
Sherbet & Champagne – “Elderfraud”: https://sherbetandchampagne.bandcamp.com/album/elderfraud-ep
Gabrielle Pietrangelo – “House Recordings”: https://gabriellepietrangelo.bandcamp.com/album/home-recordings-2004-2020
Hank Topless – “Thank Your Soiled Stars”: https://hanktopless.bandcamp.com/album/thank-your-dirty-stars
Watercolor – “Time and Area”: https://watercolorband.bandcamp.com/album/time-space