SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Fronted by British punk veteran Jon Brooder, San Francisco garage-rock quartet the Seagulls play songs from their forthcoming new album after they headline Thee Parkside Saturday night time.
Raised in South London in the course of the Nineteen Seventies, Jon Brooder discovered inspiration in ’50s rock, Motown, rock regular, British pub rock earlier than the preliminary wave of UK punk rock took maintain of his creativeness. He would find yourself taking part in bass within the Conflict-inspired late ’80s punk band Lightning Strike, which performed CBGBs after relocating to New York and managed to attain a report cope with RCA.
Although the band solely managed to launch its debut album earlier than getting dropped by the main label, the expertise whetted Brooder’s urge for food for making music and his want to dwell within the U.S. He would transfer to San Francisco within the early ’90s, ultimately working with the bands the Hairdressers and the Music Lovers, an indie-pop challenge led by fellow Brit songwriter Matthew Edwards. It was within the latter band that Brooder met keyboard participant Isaac Bonnell.
The 2 musicians would begin the Seagulls in 2012, constructing on their shared expertise to play a mixture of covers and unique music that nods equally to roots-minded songwriting, punk vitality and a bluesy swagger that recollects legendary British pub-rock band Dr. Feelgood — who the Seagulls have been recognized to cowl once in a while. Rounded out by longtime drummer/singer Geri Vahey (who performed within the bands Skint and Mother’s Favourite Vase) and newcomer Christina Michelle on bass (Fog Metropolis Swampers, Malice Cooper), the band managed to ramp up its exercise prior to now two years regardless of the pandemic.
After releasing the holiday tune “Spirit in the Air” in December of 2019 earlier than COVID shut down the planet, the Seagulls have put out a pair of EPs (recorded each dwell and within the studio) and several other digital singles, with a number of the materials addressing the stark new actuality of sheltering in place and lacking human interplay. The band additionally performed a gradual string of out of doors exhibits in San Francisco and at Winters Tavern in Pacifica as companies gamely tried to function amid new COVID protocols, offering a little bit of reduction for individuals starved to for dwell music hoping for a quick second of normalcy.
The Seagulls trekked to the UK this previous spring, taking part in a collection of gigs in and round London. They headline this present at Thee Parkside Saturday night, previewing songs from its forthcoming album This Time Subsequent 12 months. The band is joined by famous SF storage punk/soul combo Scorching Laundry. Fronted by pint-sized spitfire singer Janette Lopez, the group mixes the vocal harmonies and sass of legendary lady group the Shangri-las with the blistering proto-punk of Detroit heroes the MC5 on their recently released album Pawn Shop Gold. Opening garage-rock crew the Boars options former members of such notables as Skankin’ Pickle, the Sermon, the Fells and the Impalers.
The Seagulls with Scorching Laundry and the Boars
Saturday, Nov. 5, 8 p.m. $10
Thee Parkside
