Don’t be a wanker, go see Wreckless Eric at the Star Bar tonight
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
You have no excuse not to go out and see Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby perform at The Star Bar tonight. The guy is a legend and doens’t make it through these parts very often.
Sadly, local powerpop hero and unapologetic Wreckless Eric fan Gentleman Jesse Smith has been removed from the bill in order to spend some time recovering from injuries received during a pretty brutal mugging in L5P last week. Here’s to wishing him a speedy recovery.
Wreckless Eric never quite gained the notoriety of his Stiff Records‘ labelmates Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe — at least not in the States. But as one of the original Stiff exports of the ’70s, he was no less an important figure in the second British pop invasion.
Through his early, out-of-tune singles “Whole Wide World” and “Semaphore Signals,” he gained a rep as the label’s punk sympathizer. Born Eric Goulden, he was a gruff counterpart to the well-mannered Lowe and the purportedly pompous Costello, and was never afraid to call anybody out. “I always liked Nick Lowe, but I thought Elvis Costello was a bit of a wanker,” he offers through his pinched British accent.
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