A massive shout out to his vocals as well, surprisingly good, especially on 'first taste'. He is so talented and to see him hopping between drums and guitar was awesome. 'First taste' had almost progressive rock/space rock flourishes, whilst Manipulator hammers away with psychedelic goodness. The myriad influences that infuse his work were at play. Jeffrey Evans, Magnetix, White Wires, King Louie One Man Band, River City Tanlines, Thomas Function, The Magic Kids and The Shitty Beach Boys.Ty and his band were absolutely on fire. Other bands featured in this year's festival lineup include Gentleman Jesse and his Men, The Intelligence, The Loose Diamonds, Msr. Another Columbus legend, Don Howland (Bassholes, Gibson Bros.), is also returning with his new band, A Burning Bus. Obnoxious, snotty and frantic, the Reatards provided the blueprint for the last decade of garage punk bands.Įarlier this year, Spin Magazine declared that Goner Fest "showcases talent galore." Goner Fest 6 will be no exception: Additional highlights include appearances by Columbus, OH garage legends Cheater Slicks, Ramones loving Muppet rocker Nobunny, Bay area reverb wonder kid Ty Segall, San Francisco shape-shifting noise pop folks Thee Oh Sees, Puerto Rican psychedelic garage collective Davila 666, Omaha, NE cave poppers Box Elders,New York gal gang Golden Triangle, and French popsikegroup Sonic Chicken 4. At Goner Fest 6, Jay will be joined by original Reatards Steve Albundy (the Feelers) and Elvis Wong (Tokyo Electron). Mark Deming at All Music Guide gives a pretty apt description: "Folding together equal portions of greasy '50s pop, Memphis-style rhythm & blues, and a punk rocker's sense of casual experimentation and musical cross breeding, the Compulsive Gamblers were at the forefront of the Memphis roots punk scene."Īlso on the bill is a reformed version of Jay Reatard's first band, The Reatards, with a line-up that dates back to 1998 when Jay was 17 and his first album, Teenage Hate, was released on Goner Records. The Compulsive Gamblers existed both before and after the Oblivians, and were fronted by Oblivians co-founders Greg Cartwright and Jack Yarber. Highlights of the Goner Fest 6 roster include reformed versions of two legendary Memphis bands from the 1990s: Previous festivals have attracted rock and roll fans from Austria, Japan, Germany, Italy, Holland, France, UK, Australia, Croatia and Canada. As noted in Paste Magazine, the event "tends to fill three days with so much overdriven, yelp-tastic rock 'n' roll that, for the slightest moment, the city of Memphis becomes one big parents' garage."Īttendance for Goner Fest 6 is anticipated to top 2500 people for the weekend as many as half of whom will be traveling to Memphis for the event. Over the last half-decade, Goner Fest has increasingly found itself on the radar of mainstream independent music. Goner Fest 6 will bring together 38 bands from six countries for four days and three nights of rock and roll mayhem.
There will also be various daytime music and art shows throughout the weekend, as well as a Saturday afternoon mini-fest at Murphy's. While Goner Fest 6 will open and close with shows at the Goner Records Store, the main event, four evening showcases, will be held at the Hi-Tone Café. Tickets are now on sale for Goner Records' sixth annual music festival, which will take place September 24-26, 2009, in Memphis, TN. "But if I'm not doing music, I feel like I'm wasting my time." "There are a lot of ways that I am a slacker," he explains over the phone a month after the fateful Amnesia show as he and his band drive to New Orleans. Despite his omnipresence on SF's dive bar scene, he's pretty modest about his dedication to his music. He's constantly playing gigs at bars like the Knockout, the Hemlock, and the Eagle Tavern - basically anywhere flannel is the prevailing fashion, alongside those straw fedora hats favored by the fixed-gear crowd. Sludge or no sludge, Segall's solid work ethic is evident. However, he also delivered a few examples of his self-described "sludgier" work on the brand new Lemons (Goner Records). After sets by openers Snakeflower 2 and the Rantouls, he mostly played familiar songs from his 2008 self-titled release on CastleFace Records.
Clearly the night's headliner at Amnesia, he packed the joint. Once upon a time, Segall was a one man band, but he's expanded his outfit to a three-piece. After my own greasy foray into a Popeye's a few blocks away, I was ready to see the wunderkind, who is freshly graduated from the University of San Francisco.