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show PREVIEW
BY GRAHAM ISAAC
music
previews rumor has it
Future City Fear
Gettin’ the band back together
ON POSTERS promoting shows with bands featuring members
of better-known bands, it’s common practice to put in parentheses
an “ex-more recognizable band” in smaller type below the
band’s name. It’s not that often, however, that you’ll see a “pre”
affi xed to promotional materials; generally the pre-bands that
spawn later, better-known outfi ts are gone for good.
But not always, as Friday’s show featuring reunited locs Future
City Fear can attest. Future City Fear may not have the
instant name recognition amongst many local music fans that
many of the bands that followed it did, but FCF was instrumental
in not only introducing its members to the scene, but also in
shaping Bellingham’s affi nity for post-punk and prog alongside
the garagey-er elements of the rock scene.
The band, consisting of Josh Holland on guitar
and vocals (also of Cicadas, Black Eyes and
Neckties, and Federation X),
Jeff Kirby on bass and vocals
(also of Old Thunder and the
Marianas Anchor), and John
Dillon on drums, lasted, like
so many others, less than two
years. They formed and played
their fi rst show in spring 2003
with the Market Zeroes, who
later became the Mark. Future
City Fear broke up during fall
of 2004, and its members went
in their own various directions,
both musical and non.
During its all-too-brief lifespan,
the band recorded an album,
I Want It, I Will Kill For It, that
FUTURE CITY FEAR
Photo by Chris Fuller
Hear
WHO: Future City
Fear, The Mark,
Police Teeth
WHEN: 9pm Fri.,
April 27
WHERE: Chiribin’s,
113 E. Magnolia St.
MORE INFO:
myspace.com/
chiribins
will fi nally see the offi cial light of day for the fi rst
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Rumor Has It
HEARD IT FROM a friend who, heard it from a
friend who, heard it from another REO Speedwagon
is coming to town. Yep, the band that
has gifted us with such songs as the aforequoted
“Take It on the Run,” along with other
such monster hits as “Can’t Fight This Feeling”
and “Keep On Loving You,” will pay Lynden a
visit this August during the Northwest Washington
Fair. Although this news is exciting
enough for those of you who have never had
the chance to hear your favorite power ballads
performed live (karaoke does not count),
it pales in comparison when you consider who
will be taking the
Grandstand stage
the very next
night: Ted Nugent.
Now, I know
I’m not the fi rst
to say this, but I
thought we’d all
be snowboarding
the slopes of Hell
long before the
Nuge would ever
enter Lynden’s
city limits. You
BY CAREY ROSS
know, because I
spend so much time considering the relationship
between Ted Nugent and Lynden.
In case you’re unfamiliar with the ol’
Nuge, aside from being an undeniably skilled
guitar player who has gifted us with songs
like “Cat Scratch Fever,” “Wango Tango,” and
the more descriptively dubbed “Wang Dang
Sweet Poontang,” in his spare time he likes
to stockpile weapons and travel the country
as a national D.A.R.E spokesman. As for his
famous all-guns-all-the-time stance, his advice
for dealing with criminals is to “Remember
the Alamo” and “just shoot ‘em.” Now,
I don’t know whose side he’s on with this
whole Alamo thing, but, if I’ve got my history
straight, it seems like Sam Houston and
crew tried to take his advice and it didn’t
work out so well for them. But they probably
weren’t dealing with the kind of fi repower
the Nuge can command.
In other pseudo-celebrity-related news,
I’m told that a song by Kasey Anderson
(“Raining in Hattiesburg”) will appear in an
upcoming episode of the VH1 reality series
Whitestarr, a “comedic romp” about Cisco
Adler and his band Whitestarr (natch). If
you can’t remember why you’ve heard of Cisco
Adler, he’s most famous for having dated
Mischa Barton... and then being dumped by
her after photos taken by Paris Hilton of
his naked nether regions surfaced on the
Internet following the theft of the heiress’
ever-present Sidekick. Mischa Barton is, of
course, most famous for having portrayed
the spoiled teen Marissa Cooper on the O.C.
Which means, if you squint just right while
playing the degrees-of-separation game, it’s
sort of like Kasey Anderson dated Marissa
Cooper. Right, though?