Friday, October 25, 2013

Salvador Dali Parton Supergroup to Play Nashville Saturday Night

They wrote their first songs Thursday. They rehearsed the first time Friday. They perform their first shows Saturday, October 26. Six shows, that is, all over Nashville--in honor of Halloween.

Salvador Dali Parton is a supergroup made up of Jake Orrall (JEFF the Brotherhood), Mike Harris (Apache Relay), Winston Marshall (Mumford & Sons), Justin Hayward-Young (The Vaccines), and Gill Landry (Old Crow Medicine Show) who will perform . .
A sixth show will be announced day-of.

What will they sound like? "We'd love to tell you," says their release.* "But the band hasn't even practiced together yet." The group plans to record the Saturday night gigs and release a live album of the best of it.

Rolling Stone review

Salvador Dali Parton disbanded just after 1 a.m. Sunday morning at East Nashville’s fooBAR. (an officially unannounced stop?) "ending a debauched six-hour career" that included six performances. Old Crow’s Gil Landry, reflected during a brief break after the first gig: "A debacle, a glorious debacle." 

Salvador Dali Parton, intended as a one-off joke, featured Marshall and Landry on guitar, Apache Relay’s Mike Harris on bass, and JEFF the Brotherhood guitarist Jake Orrall on drums. Vaccines’ singer Justin Hayward-Young, who fronted, declared: "I don’t know when it all began, but this is the end."

SPD’s six songs, written Thursday and rehearsed once Friday, "sounded like a (predictably) sloppy, sludge-y early Black Sabbath ground down into Dadaist shambles." Or "something like Spinal Tap’s taking on Neil Young and Crazy Horse." 

Last year Marshall tapped Landry, Harris, and members of Matthew and the Atlas to form the Anal Beatles, a "similarly jocular hardcore punk outfit" that lasted "one tiny, drunken club show." Though the one-night supergroup did play a house party at "Nashville power-punkers Diarrhea Planet’s crash pad", as predicted, a rumored seventh show at Jack White’s Third Man Records "turned out to be a hoax."   

SEE: Nashville Scene and Rolling Stone

*from Nashville label Infinity Cat, whose artists include Jeff The Brotherhood.

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