Variety was the spice of life at the Blarney Stone for Sleeping With Tuesday’s CD release party, Friday, June 25 which attracted well over 250 people.
Most of the Ghostwood Records lineup were on the bill, which was partially sponsored by L.A. Beat, beginning with Jesse And the Dandelions, who played a brief but energetic set which ended with the audience singing along to their van song.
Local hard rock band the Living Luca were on fire with a short, tight almost possessed set, featuring singer Bridgette Yarwood unleashing her inner beast on stage.
Mutant blues rock duo Smokestack Jacks also had a solid set with deadly slide guitar. They began with ‘Fat Ass,’ off their new self-titled CD.
Steven Foord, coming straight from a special sneak preview of his new place the Owl Acoustic lounge, looked a little tired, but sounded like Rob Thomas as he took the stage like a pro to lead the Necessities through a strong set of folk style rock. He had the crowd shouting along to the chorus “Death To The Sun,” of the ‘Cricket Song.’ They ended with ‘The Carnival Song,’ which had Thomas Woodman playing a kazoo solo.
Headliners, Sleeping With Tuesday, began what turned into an energetic three hour set, included lots of new music from their new CD “Shuffle” including “our radio song “Fa Fa Phone, which brought their ’80s new wave influences right home. They had the audience singing along ‘oh, oh oh,” throughout several catchy choruses in several Cars and Elvis Costello influenced numbers. A reggae groove kept them all dancing in other places.
Singer/ guitarist Johnpaul Smith played a brief acoustic set then brought the band back for a punk cover of “Land Down Under,” after which they played a couple older numbers a than some very cool punkish covers of Ray Parker Jr.’s “Ghostbusters”, and then were called back for encores with included Coldplay’s ‘Clocks,’, The Cars’ “Just What I Needed,” and even the Ramones’ ‘Blitzkerieg Bop.”
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