Les Sans Culottes & The Old Ceremony

les sans culottes

Just found out that the first show of The Old Ceremony, my new pop-noir band, will be a month or so sooner than we originally expected. We'll be playing at Local 506 in Chapel Hill next wednesday opening for Les Sans Culottes, which from what I gather, is a fake-french pop band from NYC.

We (the O.C.) are excited about our first show. It's bound to be a learning experience either way. The idea of the band is that we take on extra members at certain shows - violin, cello, saw, theremin, sax, trumpet, trombone, etc. This show will be just the core group - guitar, drums, upright bass, vibes, and organ. We'll be adding a piano player to the core soon most likely as well.

It's great to have an outlet for the non-rock stuff I've been writing for years. Growing up with jazz standards (singing round the piano with the folks) made me really love jazz when it's played as pop music and years and years of listening to Tom Waits and Nick Cave and Kurt Weill have created permanent pathways in my brain for rundown cosmopolitan, dark, pseudo-east-european, or just downright threatening but beautiful pop music.