[ATTENDED: April 7, 2023] Brontez Purnell [rescheduled from November 22, 2020, October 2, 2021 and July 13, 2022]
I bought a ticket for this show on November 10, 2019. That’s 1,244 days.
And it finally happened!
In the 4 years since I bought these tickets, my daughter became a fan of the band and I was able to score a ticket for her that wasn’t marked up all that much. So we both got to enjoy the show.
There were a couple of different opening acts planned for this show. I would have loved to see Alice Bag. But for this date we had Brontez Purnell.
I had no idea who this was and even had kind of a hard time imagining what they would do. Especially since his Wikipedia page states:
Brontez Purnell is an American writer, musician, dancer, and director based out of Oakland, California. He is the author of several books, including Since I Laid My Burden Down, and the zine Fag School; frontman for the punk band The Younger Lovers; and founder of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company.
I didn’t know if Brontez would speak, dance or sing.
So it turned out Brontez fronted a three piece garage punk band. And they were very much okay.
The music was really simple and Brontez sang over it. I couldn’t really hear them that well and my daughter said she didn’t really like their voice.
My favorite part of Brontez’s set was that between songs they chatted with us and Brontez is really funny.
They had a recurring joke about X band being an alternative band from the 90s. And when they introduced Bikini Kill, they sued that same line to much shouting.
In Maryland, Mannequin Pussy opened. I would have 100% preferred them. But Brontez said that their new album was coming out on Sub Pop, so someone must like it.
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