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Live Five: Author & Punisher, Patric Petrie, Quel Bordel, The Sleepwalkers, Mursic
Electronic, Celtic world, gypsy punk, Chicano rock, and operatic metal in Little Italy, Poway, Ocean Beach
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Author & Punisher at the Casbah
November 13
Tristan Shone’s industrial drone-doom one-man band Author & Punisher takes experimental electronic machines and processors and uses his inventions to create a sonic melding of man and machine. The result can be heard on albums such as Ursus Americanus, which came with a video for single “Terrorbird” (climaxing with Pinback guitarist Rob Crow spewing blood) that helped the record attract attention on multiple international blogs. Shone (who launched an audio gear company called Drone Machines in 2022) won Best Hard Rock Album at the 2013 San Diego Music Awards for his Author & Punisher EP Women & Children. The Little Italy bill includes Portland, OR heavy metal rapper King Yosef, who first earned attention as a producer for hip-hop artists like XXXTentacion and Ski Mask the Slump God before launching his solo career in 2017.
Patric Petrie at Templar’s Hall at Old Poway Park
November 14
San Diego Folk Heritage and Listen Local join to present Irish-born Patric Petrie, a local violin virtuoso and founding member of the Celtic-worldbeat ensemble Skelpin. Perennially nominated at the San Diego Music Awards, Skelpin won the SDMA for Best World Music Album for their CD A Trip to Skye. A regular on the North County pub circuit, Petrie has also performed and recorded with Steve Miller guitarist Greg Douglass, David Lally, Colin Clyne, and others, including an onstage appearance at Humphreys with iconic world music ensemble the Chieftains. For this Poway concert, she’ll be playing with her bands Calamity and Skelpin, as well as with Matt Hensley of Flogging Molly and more guests TBA.
Quel Bordel at the Holding Company
November 15
Quel Bordel were founded when a Ukrainian gypsy named Jakovich Skolnick (BandapArt, the Plastic Revolution) met classical violinist Regina Brown (Nervous Wreckords, Rihanna) on a French Caribbean cruise line. Beginning in 2013 with a year-long residency headlining Gaslamp venue Jimmy Love’s, the band moved on to headline gigs at the Casbah, the Holding Company, and the House of Blues mainstage. Within a couple of years, they were regularly booking international tours and appearing at music festivals around the world, including Get Shamrocked, and across the U.S. They describe their style as "world punk," a fusion of diverse musical influences with theatrical energy, combining gypsy-inspired sounds with the aggression of Celtic punk rock. Their music features surging guitars, exotic violin, pounding drums, and rousing, shout-along choruses. During the pandemic, they also ventured into instrumental gypsy jazz with an album called Dinner For Derelicts, featuring five cover songs and five originals.
The Sleepwalkers at Winstons Beach Club
The Sleepwalkers have been playing authentic Americana roots rock since 1992. They specialize in original American music styles ranging from blues and country to Tex-Mex, Cumbia, and their own brand of roots rock. They’ve performed and recorded with Link Wray, Ronnie Dawson, Sleepy Labeef, Charlie Ryan, The Texas Tornados, The Blasters, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Kid Ramos, Freddy Fender, The Rev. Horton Heat, The Supersuckers, Rosie Flores, Graham Parker, El Vez, The Royal Crown Revue, Harry Dean Statton, and many others. They’ve been nominated for over a half dozen San Diego Music Awards, including for Best Americana/Roots band and Best Local Recording. The bill includes Los Paisanos, featuring members based in San Marcos, Vista, and Riverside County. The band is known for incorporating diatonic button accordion, piano accordion, and contemporary keyboards into their arrangements of traditional Latin American mariachi, salsa, cumbia, and merengue music.
Mursic at the Casbah
November 18
Mursic is a theatrical symphonic hard rock group with members based in both San Diego and Hollywood. The band's sound is characterized by a blend of classical and synthesized keyboard sounds, creating a heavy, operatic rock style. Mursic is supporting their newest release Oblivion and a newly remastered version of their 2014 album Spawned From A Nightmare, and the Little Italy lineup also includes the Dimes (cinematic, thematic rock with a raw, narrative edge) and the Fever Vault, opening with a moody set of dark ‘80s cult classics.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Live Five: Author & Punisher, Patric Petrie, Quel Bordel, The Sleepwalkers, Mursic
Electronic, Celtic world, gypsy punk, Chicano rock, and operatic metal in Little Italy, Poway, Ocean Beach
Live Five: Author & Punisher, Patric Petrie, Quel Bordel, The Sleepwalkers, Mursic
Electronic, Celtic world, gypsy punk, Chicano rock, and operatic metal in Little Italy, Poway, Ocean Beach
MORE ACCORDION
Author & Punisher at the Casbah
November 13
Tristan Shone’s industrial drone-doom one-man band Author & Punisher takes experimental electronic machines and processors and uses his inventions to create a sonic melding of man and machine. The result can be heard on albums such as Ursus Americanus, which came with a video for single “Terrorbird” (climaxing with Pinback guitarist Rob Crow spewing blood) that helped the record attract attention on multiple international blogs. Shone (who launched an audio gear company called Drone Machines in 2022) won Best Hard Rock Album at the 2013 San Diego Music Awards for his Author & Punisher EP Women & Children. The Little Italy bill includes Portland, OR heavy metal rapper King Yosef, who first earned attention as a producer for hip-hop artists like XXXTentacion and Ski Mask the Slump God before launching his solo career in 2017.
Patric Petrie at Templar’s Hall at Old Poway Park
November 14
San Diego Folk Heritage and Listen Local join to present Irish-born Patric Petrie, a local violin virtuoso and founding member of the Celtic-worldbeat ensemble Skelpin. Perennially nominated at the San Diego Music Awards, Skelpin won the SDMA for Best World Music Album for their CD A Trip to Skye. A regular on the North County pub circuit, Petrie has also performed and recorded with Steve Miller guitarist Greg Douglass, David Lally, Colin Clyne, and others, including an onstage appearance at Humphreys with iconic world music ensemble the Chieftains. For this Poway concert, she’ll be playing with her bands Calamity and Skelpin, as well as with Matt Hensley of Flogging Molly and more guests TBA.
Quel Bordel at the Holding Company
November 15
Quel Bordel were founded when a Ukrainian gypsy named Jakovich Skolnick (BandapArt, the Plastic Revolution) met classical violinist Regina Brown (Nervous Wreckords, Rihanna) on a French Caribbean cruise line. Beginning in 2013 with a year-long residency headlining Gaslamp venue Jimmy Love’s, the band moved on to headline gigs at the Casbah, the Holding Company, and the House of Blues mainstage. Within a couple of years, they were regularly booking international tours and appearing at music festivals around the world, including Get Shamrocked, and across the U.S. They describe their style as "world punk," a fusion of diverse musical influences with theatrical energy, combining gypsy-inspired sounds with the aggression of Celtic punk rock. Their music features surging guitars, exotic violin, pounding drums, and rousing, shout-along choruses. During the pandemic, they also ventured into instrumental gypsy jazz with an album called Dinner For Derelicts, featuring five cover songs and five originals.
The Sleepwalkers at Winstons Beach Club
The Sleepwalkers have been playing authentic Americana roots rock since 1992. They specialize in original American music styles ranging from blues and country to Tex-Mex, Cumbia, and their own brand of roots rock. They’ve performed and recorded with Link Wray, Ronnie Dawson, Sleepy Labeef, Charlie Ryan, The Texas Tornados, The Blasters, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Kid Ramos, Freddy Fender, The Rev. Horton Heat, The Supersuckers, Rosie Flores, Graham Parker, El Vez, The Royal Crown Revue, Harry Dean Statton, and many others. They’ve been nominated for over a half dozen San Diego Music Awards, including for Best Americana/Roots band and Best Local Recording. The bill includes Los Paisanos, featuring members based in San Marcos, Vista, and Riverside County. The band is known for incorporating diatonic button accordion, piano accordion, and contemporary keyboards into their arrangements of traditional Latin American mariachi, salsa, cumbia, and merengue music.
Mursic at the Casbah
November 18
Mursic is a theatrical symphonic hard rock group with members based in both San Diego and Hollywood. The band's sound is characterized by a blend of classical and synthesized keyboard sounds, creating a heavy, operatic rock style. Mursic is supporting their newest release Oblivion and a newly remastered version of their 2014 album Spawned From A Nightmare, and the Little Italy lineup also includes the Dimes (cinematic, thematic rock with a raw, narrative edge) and the Fever Vault, opening with a moody set of dark ‘80s cult classics.