Half Cut Hicks • Freud and the Family Solution • Lost Canoe

Half Cut Hicks • Freud and the Family Solution • Lost Canoe

Sooki Lounge — Saturday Feb 7, 4:00pm

Half Cut Hicks, Freud and Family Solution and Lost Canoe come together for a satdee matinee speculate at Sooki. An armchair musicologist recently observed that if the Hicks, Freud and the Family Solution, and Lost Canoe were a Venn diagram, you’d find a good dose of ‘left of center twang’ right at the intersection.

Half Cut Hicks kick things off by throwing banjo, mandolin, trombone, ukulele, guitar, Sidchrome, tenor, bass and drums into a wild, hard-to-pin-down mix. — sometimes labelled Rum Barrel Blues, Trash Grass or Hillbilly Punk — the hicks will be delivering a high-energy, alt-country blast built for stomping floors.

Freud and the Family Solution follow with Italian style, French soul and international muscle — cattle-rustlin’ carnies and bounty hunters from the intergalactic council of freaks, creeps and muthafuckerz. Part sonic theatre, part cerebral rock opera, they bring swagger, spectacle and left-of-centre grooves that refuse to sit still.

Lost Canoe close the day with raw, guitar-driven rock built around a couple of singer-songwriters and a driving rhythm section. Loose but deliberate, noisy yet melodic, their sound pulls from the grit of the John Spencer Blues Explosion, the psychedelic sprawl of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, the drift of Yo La Tengo and the ragged soul of Neil Young — music that stretches out, digs in and hits hard.

Special Guests:
Freud and the Family Solution, Lost Canoe