__Sat Nov 24th__ The Tosspints, Ando Ehlers, Tom McSod
__Sat Nov 24th__ The Tosspints, Ando Ehlers, Tom McSod
Saturday November 24th, 2012
The Tosspints
Ando Ehlers
Tom McSod
10PM
$5
About The Tosspints:
About
Whiskey fueled Irish Punk Rock… Supercharged…
Biography
The Tosspints’ style of music has been influenced by 3 lifetimes of living through the school of hard knocks, brought to bear from war, loss, degradation, and hard drinking. A band created entirely by a family who has had to make it through life the hard way and use their experience to create songs about the more distressed side of being human… Their fast paced no nonsense stage show drives songs
straight into the audience one after the other, pushing their own style of up tempo minor chord melodies out with the highest possible energy level.Their powerful stage presence and unending barrage of music from the beginning of their set to the end of the dark, yet high energy show has earned them spots on stage with iconic underground rock heroes such as The Tossers, The Young Dubliners and Murder by death, and earned festival showcases from The Michigan Irish Music Festival, the Crispy Music Festival, and the George Killians Irish Red Ruckus as direct support for The Dropkick Murphys. Their songwriting skills have been recognized in the 2011 John Lennon Songwriting Contest where they earned a finalist position.Discography includes:
“Blood Sweat and Beards”, EP, spring 2009″11 Empty Bottles”, full length LP, winter 2009
“Blood Sweat and Beards”, EP, spring 2009″11 Empty Bottles”, full length LP, winter 2009
“Cenocillicaphobia” full length LP, CD and Vinyl, fall 2011.
Description
“with a sustained chord and a shout to the crowd, a cymbal crashed, and they were off!, barreling into their 45-minute set with all the kinetic energy Newton’s laws of motion allow for a three-piece Celtic punk rock band. From there, the momentum only amplified. “- Jeremy Benson, 360mainstreet.com
About Ando Ehlers:
Biography
“Imagine the Tiger Lillie’s on speed. They are already on acid right? Now add a handful of amphetamine. Ando came on the stage like a tornado; stomping his feet, twitching his face, rolling his eyes, frothing at the mouth and singing like he wants you to understand something really important. This was Death Polka! …This was hard core punk with a slice of polka, just enough to keep you guessing.”
-Carmen Ghia – Live Seattle: Music in the Clubs“Death Polka is a new genre to me but evidently has found a home in the dark recesses of Milwaukee, Wisconsin to which the keeper of it’s sacred flame is Ando Ehlers. Just as with the existing Polkacore, POPka, and Indie Beardie Polk movements springing up out of the southwest, middlewest, and eastwestwest of the country; Ehlers is keeping it real with a passion and zeal not seen by some since early Stooges-era Iggy Pop. Fans of earlier work by The Decemberists should also take notice of his articulate lyricism laid over the skillfully placed angelic tones of Ehlers’ accordian.”
-Chip Copeland – Sock Monkey Sound”…I sit here in my secret HQ surrounded by piles of punk LPs, stacks of snotty-vocaled 45s, a few boxes of demo cassettes and racks & racks of CDs. In my 26 years of spending my hard earned cash I’ve only asked one thing from a punk release: that it includes one, just ONE, song that focuses anger into a sing-a-long stiletto. A single track that I can identify with and use to vent my anger as I sing along. “Who Cares” has that, a venom-toothed attack on wage-slaverly entitled “Day Job”. It. Kicks. Ass. If I saw them live I’d lose my voice screaming along to the line “let’s all live a lie!”. I’d recommend this CD to you based on this number alone…”
-Jordn Block – Sepiachord
-Chip Copeland – Sock Monkey Sound”…I sit here in my secret HQ surrounded by piles of punk LPs, stacks of snotty-vocaled 45s, a few boxes of demo cassettes and racks & racks of CDs. In my 26 years of spending my hard earned cash I’ve only asked one thing from a punk release: that it includes one, just ONE, song that focuses anger into a sing-a-long stiletto. A single track that I can identify with and use to vent my anger as I sing along. “Who Cares” has that, a venom-toothed attack on wage-slaverly entitled “Day Job”. It. Kicks. Ass. If I saw them live I’d lose my voice screaming along to the line “let’s all live a lie!”. I’d recommend this CD to you based on this number alone…”
-Jordn Block – Sepiachord
Description
Death Polka is the demented offspring that formed from the sacred union of punk, folk, metal, sacred harp singing and bluegrass. Your life will be better if you choose to embrace Death Polka.