NYC Show Obsessive

  Bill: Towncryer/Sneaky Monkey Venue: Cowgirl Seahorse , 259 Front St. , New York, NY Date: 8/25/25 Door: Free 9pm Towncryer Affiliated: Mirror Queen, Roger That, Hopewell, Ghost of Past Mistakes Active: 2021 (Brooklyn, NY) 8pm Sneaky Monkey Active: Unknow (New York, NY) Kenny was up to his quarterly shenanigans with Towncryer.  Sneaky Monkey came on first doing covers of Midnight Oil, Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road" before the audience ganged up to sing along with Bowie's "Starman." Towncryer have evolved into a guitar/bass/drums trio with a keyboardist in waiting but not quite ready for live consumption.  Perhaps next time.  In the meantime, we had to make do with the current renditions of The Byrds "One Hundred Years Ago," The Stones "Dead Flowers" and I think a cover debut of "Every Little Thing" by the Be-a-tles.  Two sets we done, tequila shots were hoisted, and Monday became Tuesday. FOR FURTHER REVIEW:  Towncryer/Sne...

  Bill: Paul McCartney Tribute Featuring Nite Music/Rich Meyer/Skyjectors/Wild Honey Pie/HoloVortex/Leigh Celent/Brian Kish/Michael Lynch Venue: The Gutter , Brooklyn, NY Date: 6/15/25 Door: Free 10:45 Nite Music Active: 2022 (Brooklyn, NY) Latest Release: " Never Let You Go " (Nite Music, 2025) Bandcamp   Facebook   Instagram   10:30 Rich Meyer Active: 1996 (Brooklyn, NY) Affiliated: Ghost of Past Mistakes, Hopewell, Mercury Rev Facebook   Instagram   Discogs   9:55  The Skyjectors Active: 2024 (New York, NY via Philadelphia, PA) Instagram Missed: The  Wild Honey Pie /HoloVortex/ Leigh Celent / Brian Kish / Michael Lynch The Gutter had a low key annual Paul McCartney Sunday night tribute show that Rich Meyer was involved with, so I met up with Kenny, Rich & Darla to grab some food at Bennie's after the BBQ pop up we were looking for near the Gutter was closed.  I had no idea who was playing or what the format was but fortunatel...

  Bill: Towncryer Venue: Pangea , New York, NY Date: 5/3/25 Door: Free 9pm Towncryer Affiliated: Mirror Queen, Roger That, Hopewell, Ghost of Past Mistakes Active: 2021 (Brooklyn, NY) Another week, another night of Towncryer.  Two sets at Pangea in the East Village. Lychee vodka made a special guest appearance.  Lychee is sometimes considered a nut as opposed to a fruit.  Towncryer can confirm this with ease.  I was listening to Blind Faith on 8-track and realized they also did a version of the Towncryer standard "Well All Right" that Buddy Holly did in 1958. Not too many clips, a couple from the bar were obliterated by chatter. FOR FURTHER REVIEW:  Town Cryer @ Cowgirl Seahorse, New York, NY 4/7/25 Town Cryer @ Cowgirl Seahorse, New York, NY 1/20/25

  Bill: Roger That!/Town Cryer Venue: Cowgirl Seahorse , New York, NY Date: 4/7/25 Door: Free 9:15pm Roger That! Active: 2017 (Brooklyn, NY)  Affiliated: Windbreaker (2017-2020, changed name to Roger That!), Kenny "Kreisor", Guitar Vocals: Mirror Queen, Kreisor, Aytobach Kreisor Latest Release:  Flashback Fever  (Tee Pee, 2024) Facebook   YouTube 7:30 Town Cryer Affiliated: Mirror Queen, Roger That, Hopewell, Ghost of Past Mistakes Kenny set up his roughly quarterly Seahorse Monday night with two of his bands, Rot ger That! and Town Cryer.  Both have played the South Street Seaport restaurant before and now I'm getting a bit of a band evolution documented since I tend to show up for these guys regularly. Roger That! have been relentlessly recording and probably have two albums in the can at this point.  Still, last Fall's Flashback Fever is the "new record."  Paul the singer got the ladies screaming after he dumped water on himself after using the...

  Bill: Town Cryer/Soul Cake Venue: Cowgirl Seahorse , New York, NY Date: 1/20/25 Door: Free 8:30 PM Town Cryer Affiliated: Mirror Queen, Roger That, Hopewell, Ghost of Past Mistakes 7:30 PM Soul Cake Affiliated: Bowery Boys, Irthlings, Fugitives Facebook   Monday nights singer/songwriter series at Seahorse near South Street Seaport in lower Manhattan brought back regulars Town Cryer with Joff Wilson's trio Soul Cake opening.  I got there a little late as Joff noted but I did catch 7 songs starting with their Cure cover.  This format was guitar-bass-flute for Soul Cake.   Joff's calling card song for years has been " When The War Is Over " which he closed with.   Kenny has added a drummer after he and Rich Meyer became a duo, so we could call it a band at this point.  Both have been around enough to have originals to mix with covers.   They whipped their drummer into shape with 20 songs to learn in the past month.  They do some...

 Bill: Even Twice/Ghost of Past Mistakes Venue: Young Ethels , Brooklyn, NY Date: 10/12/24 Door: Free 4:30pm Even Twice Active: 2011 (Brooklyn, NY) Latest Release: Over/Underground (Even Twice, 2024), This Is Boomerang (Rock Hand, 2019) Bandcamp   Facebook   Discogs   AllMusic   YouTube 3:30pm Ghost of Past Mistakes Active: 2019 (Brooklyn, NY) Affiliated: Rich Meyer  (Hopewell) Facebook   Instagram   Discogs   I went to Young Ethel's Saturday afternoon since I promised Rich last week at Mama Tried that I would see his show.  I last remembered seeing him debut the band at the Gutter all the way back in 2019.  He's done some recording with this band and played around town here and there and it is coming together.  In this one he is the frontman as opposed to being bass player in Hopewell or sideman for other things. Even Twice have been around over a decade and even have physical releases.  I noticed one of the duo wearing...