[CANCELLED: July 8, 2020] Parquet Courts / P.E.
Parquet Courts were scheduled to play Jersey City on April 4. With the rescheduled dates, they added a show at The Stone Pony, which has now been cancelled.
Parquet Courts was one of the first shows that was postponed because of the coronavirus. They postponed their show by two months. Needless to say that was very optimistic and they have now cancelled everything.
I had tickets to see them at White Eagle Hall, but the rescheduled date of July 13 wasn’t going to work for me, so I was thinking of going to this show instead (even though White Eagle is 10X better than The Stone Pony).
I’ve seen Parquet Courts twice and enjoyed both shows more than I thought I would. I wasn’t sure if I’d need to see them again, but when I saw that they were playing White Eagle Hall in Jersey City–a great venue that is pretty close to me, I immediately grabbed tickets. It then sold out. And then I found out that our Scout Troop had an even planned that night so I couldn’t go anyway.
So this postponement worked out pretty well. Except that the rescheduled show is right during out Troop’s Summer Camp. The Scouts don’t want me to see this band!
Public Practice was supposed to open. Now the openers were P.E.
P.E. were supposed to open for Pottery back in May Pottery cancelled their tour and now P.E. is getting cancelled again.
P.E. is a band formed out of the band Pill (who I’ve not heard of but who were a skronky and intense DIY art-punk band). Three members of Pill have gone on to form P.E. The song I heard “Top Ticket” was a propulsive thump, strung along by drill whirs and Torres’ snotty deliver: “I want the top ticket/ Nothing average, nothing contrived/ None of that consumer-grade shit.”
