{"id":39665,"date":"2018-05-26T08:19:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T12:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=39665"},"modified":"2018-05-26T08:19:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T12:19:21","slug":"on-stage-trashcan-sinatras-at-sellersville-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=39665","title":{"rendered":"On Stage: Trashcan Sinatras at Sellersville tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Denny Dyroff<\/strong>, Entertainment Editor, The Times<\/em><\/p>\n

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Trashcan Sinatras<\/p><\/div>\n

On May 27, the Sellersville Theater (24 West Temple Avenue, Sellersville, 215-257-5808,\u00a0www.st94.com<\/a>) is hosting a very special acoustic show by one of Scotland\u2019s all-time favorite rock bands.<\/p>\n

The Trashcan Sinatras, who have been representing Scotland in the international rock scene for more than three decades, are visiting the past with their \u201cOne Night, Two Albums\u201d tour of the United States and Canada. The trio features the three musicians who have been the nucleus of the band since its inception in 1987 in Irvine, Scotland — Frank Reader, Paul Livingston and John Douglas.<\/p>\n

The band has released just six albums over the years \u2013 \u201cCake\u201d (1990), \u201cI\u2019ve Seen Everything\u201d (1993), \u201cA Happy Pocket\u201d (1996), \u201cWeightlifting\u201d (2004), \u201cIn the Music\u201d (2009) and \u201cWild Pendulim\u201d (2016).<\/p>\n

The first of these, \u201cCake,\u201d featured the debut single \u201cObscurity Knocks\u201d and its follow up \u201cOnly Tongue Can Tell,\u201d both of which became alternative radio hits in the US and introduced the group to what has become a loving and loyal fan base around the world. The second album, \u201cI\u2019ve Seen Everything,\u201d is best recognized by the hit single \u201cHayfever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe catalyst for this tour was just finding ways to work,\u201d said Reader, during a phone interview Wednesday afternoon from a tour stop in Atlanta. \u201cThe three of us are the core of the band. We\u2019d always write the songs on acoustic guitar.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, we decided to go out with just three of us. Our shows went over well. After that, we were looking for a way to work again. The opportunity to do this tour came up and here we are.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cOne Night, Two Albums\u201d tour will consist of two sets per show, allowing \u201cCake\u201d and \u201cI\u2019ve Seen Everything\u201d to both be played in their entirety. In addition, the trio fills out the sets with a selection of songs from other records to make sure no two shows are the same.<\/p>\n

According to Reader, \u201cWe had resisted playing many of our older songs on tour as they were from a different time in our lives. But as we prepared for the \u2018All Night\u2019 tour and really got into it, we realized the songs are like long lost friends or family. In many cases, you can welcome them back into your life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trashcan Sinatras formed in 1987 in the quiet coastal town of Irvine \u2013 not far from the bustling metropolis of Kilmarnock. \u201cCake,\u201d their John Leckie-produced debut album, was critically lauded and featured the band\u2019s blistering debut single \u201cObscurity Knocks\u201d as well as a couple other alternative radio hits (\u201cOnly Tongue Can Tell\u201d and \u201cCircling the Circumference\u201d).<\/p>\n

In the United States, \u201cCake\u201d spent three months on the Billboard 200. The follow up album, \u201cI\u2019ve Seen Everything,\u201d which celebrates its 25-year anniversary this year, included the single \u201cHayfever,\u201d which not only was a hit on the modern rock radio charts but also featured in an episode of the \u201cBeavis & Butthead\u201d animated television show.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe three of us started the band and we\u2019d write songs together,\u201d said Reader. \u201cWe knew each other from the pubs in our town. That\u2019s the culture we grew up in. Irvine was a small town and one pub was commandeered for rock and punk music. There was a lot of music being played. Politics, music, art \u2013 there was a scene there\u2026. a lot of talent there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since those early days, Trashcan Sinatras have successfully released multiple albums and toured the world many times over. Their most recent effort, \u201cWild Pendulum,\u201d was recorded with producer Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, First Aid Kit, Rilo Kiley) at his ARC Studios in Omaha. Released in April 2016, \u201cWild Pendulum\u201d received a warm welcome from music critics and fans. The band returned to the road for the first time in five years, supporting the release with concerts in the US, Scotland, England, Ireland, Japan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first time we\u2019ve toured with this acoustic format,\u201d said Reader. \u201cIt\u2019s been fun. We\u2019re a pretty relaxed-nature band and we tend to involve a little bit of talking. We talk about the times when this music was made. The set is really interesting \u2013 in an unexpected way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for Trashcan Sinatras \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/jjPoqopzkT8<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show at the Sellersville Theater will start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 and $39.50<\/p>\n

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Rising Appalachia<\/p><\/div>\n

There are few bands in the world of rock music today that explore the territory marked out by Rising Appalachia.<\/p>\n

On May 27, Rising Appalachia will be performing its impossible-to-categorize music when it brings its \u201cCome to Life — East\u201d tour to the World Caf\u00e9 Live (3025 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 215-222-1400, www.worldcafelive.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Rising Appalachia brings to the stage a collection of sounds, stories, and songs steeped in tradition and a devotion to world culture. Intertwining a deep reverence for folk music and a passion for justice, the band has made it a life\u2019s work to sing songs that speak to something ancient yet surging with relevance.<\/p>\n

Whether playing at Red Rocks or in rail cars, at Italian street fairs or to Bulgarian herbalists, this fiercely independent band has blazed a unique and colorful path across the globe. Now 11 years into its movement, Rising Appalachia believes that the roots of all these old songs are vital to our ever-evolving soundscape.<\/p>\n

Led by the collective voice of born-and-raised-in-Atlanta sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith, and joined by their talented band (percussionist Biko Casini and bassist\/guitarist David Brown), Rising Appalachia is a melting pot of folk music simplicity, textured songwriting, and those bloodline harmonies that only siblings can pull off.<\/p>\n

Listeners are treated to a musical tapestry of song with clawhammer banjo tunes, fiddle, double bass, acoustic guitar, djembe, barra, bodhran, spoken word, and a wealth of musical layering. It is both genre-bending and familiar at the same time.<\/p>\n

The band is touring in support of its seventh album \u2013 \u201cAlive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur most recent album is \u2018Alive,\u2019 which came out not long ago, and our most recent studio album is \u2018Wider Circles\u2019 from 2015,\u201d said Song, during a phone interview Friday afternoon prior to soundcheck at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe \u2018Alive\u2019 album was a collection of songs from our big East Coast tour last year. We had a great sound engineer, so we recorded 35 shows. We were able to capture the true taste of our live performance. We had our band so it was an exciting way for us to capture the live sound with them \u2013 the sound we\u2019ve been honing with them for the last four years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sisters and their band knew that the live shows were something special and they successfully documented them.<\/p>\n

According to Song, \u201cCaptured from the live lightning bolts that pass between audience and performer in the concert hall, \u2018Alive\u2019 is a magical mixing of free-folk, sister-soul, banjo-bass, and acoustic dance-beat throwdown between the beloved members of Rising Appalachia.<\/p>\n

Featuring the peppered layers and instrumentation of special guests Arouna Diarra and Ayla Nereo, this album is a compilation of our favorite musical arrangements throughout the years. \u00a0With these songs we celebrate what makes us truly come alive, rejoicing in our creative and communal shared experience through live song and story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Album eight is on the horizon.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur next album is in the oven \u2013 it\u2019s cooking,\u201d said Song. \u201cFor a while, it didn\u2019t feel like it was yet time to move on from our last album. Now, the songs from \u2018Wider Circles\u2019 have gone through a full maturation process.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been writing. We\u2019re starting to tour some of the new songs to see audience reaction. Usually, we record first and then tour the music. This time, we\u2019re testing the material live. We\u2019re neck-deep in the creative process.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2015, Rising Appalachia founded the Slow Music Movement to help maintain an independent musical spirit in the face of such a fast-paced world. They are creatively committed to keeping their work accessible at the local street level as well as expanding to larger audiences abroad, and have continued to maintain autonomy by self- managing, recording, producing and creating, and directing their work.<\/p>\n

According to Song, \u201cMusic is the tool with which we wield political prowess. Melody for the Roots of each of us\u2026spreading song and sound around the globe. Music has become our script for vision — not just for aural pleasure, not just for hobby, but now as a means to connect and create in ways that we aren\u2019t taught by mainstream culture.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are building community and tackling social injustice through melody, making the stage reach out with wide arms to gather this great family. It has taken on its own personality, carrying us all along the journey. Here\u2019s to poetic observations, social change, lyrical messages, political focus, symphonic coercing, ferocious bantering, bicycles and train tracks, primal will, fresh air, harmony, flow, and beautiful noise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every live show by Rising Appalachia is a pleasantly different experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really enjoy writing the set lists for our live shows,\u201d said Song. \u201cI try to create an arc with new songs, older songs and some things we don\u2019t play that much. Every show is different.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for Rising Appalachia \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/tx17RvPMaQ8<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show at the World Caf\u00e9 Live will start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $22.<\/p>\n

Other upcoming shows at World Caf\u00e9 Live are Joshua Park on May 27, and \u201cSatellites Are Spinning: A Sizzling, Sonic Celebration of Sun Ra\u201d on May 30.<\/p>\n

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Mastodon<\/p><\/div>\n

This week, another Atlanta band will be visiting Philadelphia for a show when Mastodon shares the bill with Primus on May 30 at Festival Pier at Penn\u2019s Landing (601 North Columbus Boulevard at Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, 215- 629-3200, www.festivalpierphilly.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n

However, even with the \u201cHotlanta Connection,\u201d it is unlikely \u2013 extremely unlikely \u2013 that Mastodon and Rising Appalachia ever shared a bill \u2013 or even now shares any fans.<\/p>\n

Mastodon has been linked to a variety of similar genres \u2013 groove metal, prog metal, dark metal, sludge metal, alternative metal, experimental metal, and groove metal. Suffice it to say, Mastodon is a metal band — one of America\u2019s premier metal bands for almost two decades.<\/p>\n

Now, Mastodon \u2013 Brann Dailor, drums, vocals; Brent Hinds, lead guitar, vocals; Bill Kelliher, rhythm guitar, backing vocals; Troy Sanders, bass guitar, vocals, keyboards — is on the road touring in support of its latest album, \u201cEmperor of Sand.\u201d The album was released on Reprise Records in March 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a really long tour we\u2019re on now,\u201d said Kelliher, during a phone interview Friday afternoon from a tour stop in Glen Falls, New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nine weeks long and we usually play five nights a week. It\u2019s pretty big. Normally, we\u2019re out for four or five weeks at the most \u2013 just to keep sanity in the band.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m one person at home and a totally different person with the band. When I\u2019m home with my wife and family in Atlanta, I\u2019m the father who takes the kids to school and goes to their soccer and baseball games.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Emperor of Sand\u2019 came out a little over a year ago. We started touring right when the record came out. Since then, we\u2019ve toured the states a lot, been to Europe twice and just got back from Australia. In September, we\u2019re doing shows with this band Netherlands and that might wrap it up. We\u2019re getting near the final phase of the tour cycle for the album.\u201d<\/p>\n

Time off the road is time cherished for Kelliher and his bandmates.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat keeps the band together is not having to be out touring continually,\u201d said Kelliher. \u201cWe take off to have time with our families and time to work on new tunes. I\u2019m always writing. I use ProTools on the road. I\u2019m always trying to be a step ahead. You have to keep your music fresh.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe recorded \u2018Emperor of Sand\u2019 with producer Brendan O\u2019Brien in October and November 2016 at The Quarry, a studio in Kennesaw, Georgia. We like to work close to home so we don\u2019t have to spend money to live in New York or L.A. for a month or two.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did as much as we could at The Quarry and then went to L.A. to mix it at Jim Henson\u2019s studio there. t was a fast record. We did a lot of demo-ing at my house. We knew what we wanted when we went to the studio to cut the album.\u201d<\/p>\n

Themes of death and survival are woven into the songs\u2019 lyrics, which were inspired by experiences members of the band had when family and friends were recently diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe elephant in the room was cancer,\u201d said Kelliher. \u201cMy mom, who passed away two years ago, had brain cancer. Brann\u2019s mom also was dealing with cancer. It was a very emotional time. Music and lyrics came pouring out.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll my emotions came out in the music. I\u2019d fly up to Rochester (NY) every week to see my mom. The cancer shit was on our minds the whole time and it bled into the music. It\u2019s kind of a healing album.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for Mastodon \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/HEubrZV04b0<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show at Festival Pier at Penn\u2019s Landing, which also features Primus, will start at 7 p.m. General admission tickets are $20.<\/p>\n

Also, at Festival Pier this weekend, HoagieNation, a music festival curated and headlined by Philadelphia\u2019s own Daryl Hall & John Oates, will be held on May 26. The show also features Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers, Train and Fitz & the Tantrums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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