WEEKEND WATCH: 12.5-12.6
You don’t have to worry about stray gunfire at area clubs this weekend, you just need to know where the best local bands are playing. The Weekend Watch series may or may not provide you with all the answers…
FRI 12.5
Our local punk rock friends in The Concept (Mike Withrow, Bryan Flowers, Dave Cantrell and Ross Anderson) will rock The Blue Parrot (14 1/2 Capitol St.) in Charleston Friday night with Civil State, a newer band to the area, which you can catch on this recent episode of thegazz.com’s “Radio Free Charleston” Web program. The show should start a little after 10 p.m., and the cover should be like $5; call 342-2583 for more info.
Our funk rockin’ friends in Morgantown’s Thred will be joined by ‘85 Flood and The Sam Lamont Band Friday at 123 Pleasant Street in Morgantown, which wins the award for the only venue in the state with a current non-MySpace based website. It doesn’t seem like Thred’s played a show in a while, so if you’re up that way swing by — if you’ve ever been into a band like, say, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, you’ll dig Thred. Call 304-291-0800 for more info.
SAT 12.6
The Empty Glass hosts their End of the Year Top 100 Party Saturday night, in celebration of their being named one of the Top 100 bars & nightclubs last year by, appropriately enough, Bar & Nightclub magazine. Starting around 7:30 and featuring The Carpenter Ants, The Scrap Iron Pickers, The Diablo Blues Band, Super Chimp, area honky-tonk trio Buckstone and hosted by Mike P & the Lower Case G’s. You not only pay just $8 for the cover, you get a free Empty Glass t-shirt, which is always good in this economy. Any follow-up questions, call the Glass at 345-9893. The bar is located at 410 Elizabeth Street.
Out in Huntington Saturday night there’s quite a rockin’ show at Shamrock’s Irish Pub, with one of our favorite new local bands, Huntington’s Attack Flamingo, playing with fellow Huntington-based electronic rockers Bad Employees, Sir-Boy (who drums in Flamingo) and Atomic Johnny. If you like fat synth with well-written, high energy space rock, check out Attack Flamingo’s recently released nine-song effort “No Star Could Be As Large,” the majority of which you can hear on their MySpace site. And as long as Dido’s lawyers don’t get their way, they’ll get to not be sued for the cover. Shamrock’s is located at 1050 3rd Avenue (’twas formerly Marley’s Doghouse). The show should start after 9 p.m., and the cover is just $5.
