Richard Lloyd Group/City Ice @ Sleepwalk, Brooklyn, NY 1/20/26

 


Bill: Richard Lloyd Group/City Lights

Venue: Sleepwalk, 251 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn, NY

Date: Tues 1/20/26

Door: $20

9pm Richard Lloyd Group



Active: 1973 (New York, NY)

Affiliated: Television

Latest Release: The Countdown (Plowboy, 2018)

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8pm City Ice

Active: 2024 (Brooklyn, NY)

Latest Release: "Rough Sleeper" (City Ice, 2025)

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I hadn't seen Richard Lloyd in a little over a year, so I thought I'd check in at the start of his 3 day NYC club run.  He is doing Union Pool tonight and Baker Falls Friday with a Jersey date at Crossroads in Garwood opening for the Dictators Thursday.  Busy for sure, part of a longer January tour that stated at the beginning of the month.

Unfortunately Johnny Law came to call with decibel counters, so the Group were forced to turn their amps down "5 percent" before they started.  I stood in the front off to the side so that didn't impact me much.  In fact, had I not known, I wouldn't have noticed at all.  People can hem and haw that maybe he lost a step like almost all guitarists seem to do in their 70's, but in an ever shrinking world of icons where people like Tom Verlaine and Bob Weir are gone, I'm just happy Richard Lloyd keeps on and active.  The playing sounded fine to me, the songs sounded like the songs.  He's got two clear eras in my mind: the Television records and the solo ones which I bought a bunch of in the mid aughts after he blew my mind with 6 Hendrix covers in the Webster Hall basement.  Although Richard had it on his set list, he skipped  my favorite "Fields of Fire" but he'll probably get to it another night in this local run.  For covers he wrapped with what he wrapped with last time: "Psychotic Reaction" and "Eight Miles High" in stretching form the way it was meant to be played live.  Or at least the way the Byrds did it live except different. 

I enjoyed City Ice even if I thought their songs were a little thin.  They were a freak flag trio with gritty rock vocals and there ain't nothing wrong with that if you are in the mood for it, which this particular night I was. I wasn't in an over analyzing mood and they were a good watch and hang band well played for what they do.

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Richard Lloyd Group @ Heaven Can Wait, New York, NY 10/4/24

Matthew Sweet-Girlfriend (1991)

Matthew Sweet-Altered Beast (1993)

Matthew Sweet-100% Fun (1995)







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