HARK!
I hear…a music-meets-comedy confluence (Pittsburgh word)...
“Does anyone remember laughter?” Robert Plant asked in 1971–ad-libbing on the now-classic Stairway to Heaven.
Fifty-one years later, it’s a great question!
What a tough, morbid, not-very-funny few years we've had...
Even so, comedy is perhaps the most reliable, sharpest implement we humans have on our tool belts.
Music–oh yes, that helps as well–plenty!
Which brings us to…Tickle Your Funny Bone’s "One Year Back Anniversary." It happens Tuesday, May 10 at Brigget’s Last Laugh; show starts at 7:30 p.m.
John Henry, who will be performing, launched this night about 10 years ago; he passed it on to Sean McCarthy, who took the show and ran with it, even during the darkest days and nights of COVID.
McCarthy hosts the May 10 blowout, promising a huge show:
“John Henry, Cierra Renee Miranda, Eric Sobczak, from LA, by way of Albuquerque, our dear old friend Jess Wood and also, from Albuquerque, Mr. Jake Otero who is only on Myspace and IG @ jakejakeotero with ‘May's Resident Comedian’ Saskia Bee…”
The music part?
These daredevil comics will be competing with karaoke, running in another part of Brigget’s (“a five-star dive bar”).
What’s McCarthy’s rag-tag organization all about?
“Tickle Your Bone Comedy is anti-unfunny, anti-hack, we are KFC and CBD Friendly, creating safes for all types of your secure storage needs.”
McCarthy himself is the kind of guy who will crack jokes about a brother recovering from heart surgery: “Just goes to show you can live like Babe Ruth and still get out of a pickle called a clogged artery.”
Check him out doing an extended set at Brigett’s a couple years ago here.
On the music front
Kevin Devine rolls into the Crescent Ballroom Friday, May 6.
The indie rocker will be playing cuts from his upcoming 10th record Nothing’s Real, So Nothing’s Wrong, which he pictures as “a beautiful, surreal, cinematic bedroom-rock fever dream.”
He’s swimming deep in Flaming Lips water, here. Good stuff.
Also on Friday night, May 6, there’s a big hip hop show at the Valley Bar.
“Basement Tapes is a mix show featuring the best in independent music from the soulful side of the spectrum. Come out to be immersed in African American Culture and hear classic & contemporary HIP HOP, SOUL, FUNK, AFROBEAT, R&B, rare groove & dusty beats straight from the crates. Hosted by DJ Rikkie Tee + MyGodComplex.”
Support the next generation of rockers at the Rebel Lounge’s School of Rock: 2022 Senior Show.
The Sugar Skulls, the Joeys, Feed and Miserable Ghost will be rocking at the early show, scheduled to start at 4 p.m.
The info: “The School of Rock Sugar Skulls is a teen band that represents the East Valley Schools of Rock in AZ. They range from ages 11-17.”
On Saturday, May 7, the Lost Leaf–which almost went under, last month, until new owners came in to save the all-ages art-music club at the last minute–hosts a local indie rock show featuring State Streets and Pobre Pobre.
Check out some jams by State Streets here.