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04/06 Kate Clover with Monica LaPlante and Spit Takes
at Turf Club
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Los Angeles’ rising underground punk star Kate Clover (with her band Brandon Welchez on guitarist, Bill on bass, and David S. Field on drums) headlined the Turf Club, in St Paul, on Saturday, April 6th, in support of her sophomore album The Apocalypse Dream. Last year, she toured with The Hives, select dates with Superchunk, and F**ked Up.
The band, themselves, are incredibly well-dressed and looks like a rather handsome family… which incidentally, Clover’s husband, Brandon Welchez, is the guitarist in the band.
Welchez is actually in another band called Crocodiles, who we in June 2012, and said, “The last time I saw Crocodiles was at the Turf Club supporting Brandon’s wife’s band, the Dum Dum Girls (in Oct 12, 2011). I was pretty surprised by their energy then, as well, as I had expected them to be laid back, too-cool-for-school Cali surf-rockers, but Brandon Welchez is completely and utterly absorbed in the music from the minute he hits the stage. This show was no different and the enthusiasm and intensity was a bit higher, with Brandon jumping into the crowd to pogo around a couple of times, spitting profusely on the stage during songs and whirling around so much that he unplugged his guitar.”
Clover’s set is mostly from The Apocalypse Dream, and have been consistently the same for most of the tour. For the Turf Club show, she decided at the last minute to play “No More Romance.”
“Follow Your Heart” ended her set.
Opening the show was local Monica LaPlante. We’ve seen LaPlante a few times, but our first time seeing her pretty funny at a Halloween show in 2016 at the Triple Rock Social Club, where we described her as, “Local musician Monica LaPlante opened up the show, fifteen minutes fashionably late. The band was in the Halloween spirit, dressing up as a reverse Robert Palmer and his voluptuous band. With her new album Noir available digitally (and now physically) via Hollander Records, the band is climbing up on the local radio stations, including The Current and Radio K.”
For the Turf Club show, LaPlante said that she’s been addicted to Turner Classics and generally speaking in her oh-so-southern movie accent. She ended her set with her hit song, “Hope You're Alone.”
Also on the bill was Spit Takes, a new riot-girl-ish, lead by singer VansAnn. I got a sense that they were inspired by Bikini Kill, but according to the group, they align themselves with British punk rock X-Ray Spex (who Kathleen Hanna admitted to being a fan of too).
They were a lot of fun to watch, and hopefully we’ll catch more of them in the future.
The band, themselves, are incredibly well-dressed and looks like a rather handsome family… which incidentally, Clover’s husband, Brandon Welchez, is the guitarist in the band.
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Crocodiles (22 June 2012) |
Clover’s set is mostly from The Apocalypse Dream, and have been consistently the same for most of the tour. For the Turf Club show, she decided at the last minute to play “No More Romance.”
“Follow Your Heart” ended her set.
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Monica LaPlante (30 Oct 2016) |
For the Turf Club show, LaPlante said that she’s been addicted to Turner Classics and generally speaking in her oh-so-southern movie accent. She ended her set with her hit song, “Hope You're Alone.”
Also on the bill was Spit Takes, a new riot-girl-ish, lead by singer VansAnn. I got a sense that they were inspired by Bikini Kill, but according to the group, they align themselves with British punk rock X-Ray Spex (who Kathleen Hanna admitted to being a fan of too).
They were a lot of fun to watch, and hopefully we’ll catch more of them in the future.
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