Oh man, this is going to be so fckn sweet. I love this band. If you're not familir with their work, I have in the past ad with some success described them as Cream meets Fushitsusha; that seems to do the trick. Download Punk describes them as "dark and damaged acid rock served in a crude and blown out speedball of Blue Cheer, High Rise, James Williamson, and a shit-faced-drunk Brian Eno-era Roxy Music" and promises "methamphetamine and Schnapps-drenched lullabies takin' it straight into a sonic shit storm, shifting from 4/4 power-rock to imploding free-form".

From the promoter:

"" Ethan Miller and Ben Flashman formed Comets on Fire (wiki) just prior to the turn of the century in the drug-infested hippie town of Santa Cruz, California. Their original intent was to create a rock group free of commercial pretensions or genre trend; one that simply dealt in pure bombast, attack, overwhelming distortion and chaos, and yet possessing a shameless love for anthemic choruses, shattering hooks and riffs, and the smoke and magic of yesteryears' rock and roll iconoclasts. They now number five members, and live and work in San Francisco and Oakland, but have retained their original directive -- harnessing the most crucial elements of freeform classic rock, AM gold, and the never-ending, occasionally psychotropic possibilities of their combined instrumentation. ""

Support from Birchville Cat Motel.

Comets on Fire
San Francisco Bath House
Wednesday 14 March
$30 (+ booking fee) pre-sales from Real Groovy and TicketDirect

Here is the official Comets On Fire site (which unfortunately seems to be down at the moment).

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