Chainsmoking Records Presents: Moto & The Midnight Creeps
flyer by Jake Sauer @ One Lucky Guitar
Thursday July 9th, 2009
Chainsmoking Records Presents:
M.O.T.O
The Midnight Creeps
Thomas Function
The B-Sharps
$5
9PM
Raw Power Rocks the Brass Rail
It takes cahoonies to title your band’s album after Iggy and The Stooges’ highly influential protopunk album Raw Power, but then, the same is true for even playing the protopunk garage rock that The Stooges exemplified. Chicago’s punk staple M.O.T.O. has proven themselves on both accounts. The collection of songs that vocalist and guitarist Paul Caporino deemed fit to call Raw Power (Criminal IQ) was declared the number one album of 2005 by the Chicago Reader.
M.O.T.O. is currently traveling across the U.S. in a tour that will take them east to New York, then south through Atlanta and Austin before they return to Chicago. Fort Wayne will have its chance to catch them live on July 9th at the Brass Rail performing alongside Midnight Creeps, Thomas Function, and Fort Wayne’s B-Sharps
Though Rhode Island’s Midnight Creeps hail from the same punk and glam background as M.O.T.O., vocalist Jenny Hurricane supplements the sound with an arsenal of sleazy stories about “sin, sex and destitution.” In a review of their album Give the Night a Black Eye (Red Car), Classic Rock magazine described Midnight Creeps as “punk rock’s sexiest villains.”
Thomas Function is yet another high-energy rock currently touring the south and Midwest. Though reviews of their debut album Celebration (Alive) tend to highlight the group’s Alabama origins and the hints of country in their music, the melodic keyboards and jangly guitars that define the Thomas Function sound are more typical of power pop and indie rock than anything stereotypically Southern.
Returning from their Cherchez Kahuna (Chain Smoking) tour, the B-Sharps will open with their own mix of garage rock.
The show was organized by Chain Smoking Records, a local record label and promotion company, and the Brass Rail.
