This Saturday night, January 26, we’ll be playing the unofficial post-show party for the STrange Beauty Film Fest. YAY!
Just as important it is the CD release of old friends and fellow stalwarts of trudging through the 9-5 to glory FONTANA. Come see them. Come see us and by all means stick around to hear Fontana accompany a film about bugs.
Gone to play music, record new songs, surf ride our bikes, camp on the coast through Hurrican Sandy, dropout and unplug….
Well we are back and playing at The Pinhook on the 30th with Paleface! We are incredibly excitied about this show. Never met Paleface but they are part of the Olive Juice music family, Schwervon Major Matt, Prewar Yardsale, etc.
This is a post Thansgiving show….I plan on burning off my meals and binging and purging evil and good spirits alike!
Join us to bring awareness to the Bull City Connector bus. A free bus that runs through Downtown Durham. We use it often!
The Show starts at 5:30 and goes to 8:30 Beloved Binge, Ellertronic and The Wigg Report will be playing. Bring anything that makes noise so you can play along….let’s turn it into a bit of a block party!
Then Stick around to see Cantwell Gomez and Jordan and Phil Cook an His Feat celbrating their split casette tape release with Chaz’s records…Hell of a F*cing day….
Saturday we will be playing the Motorco garage with Saint Solitude from Asheville.
Before the show we are meeting folks on Bike at Bull McCabes to fuel up and ride to Motorco….bike parade!
Meet at Bull McCabes at 8:30 ride to Motorco at 9:30ish show starts at 10 we go on at 10:45.
Seven Stars cycles is sponsoring the ride.
The good thing about the folks in Wigg Report operating their band on a stream-of-consciousness level, is that we’re never left wondering what they might be up to. They just are, and while they’re just being, music happens around them. Their “new songs” only last a day or two before they’re on to the next idea. If it’s been a month between catching sets of theirs, chances are extremely high you won’t see many of the same songs.
I’d love to see the piles of rehearsal tapes littered around their living room/practice space/recording room. Today I came to work to find a CDR crudely taped to the shop’s front door. A piece of paper was shoved behind the CDR with a note scrawled on the back of a shopping list. Want to take guesses on the item at the top of the list? It’s not too hard. It was coffee.
The Wiggs can slip effortlessly between anxious garage, shout-along anthems and bizarre children’s music for adults, but strangely no song ever seems out of place or too different for the whole. It’s still unmistakably the Wigg Report. With their bare-bones (and 100% bike-able) set up of acoustic guitar, pedals, bass drum, snare, saxophone and korg, the unpredictable three piece skirt the realms of DIY, outsider rock and folk rock – in the sense of true folk art – but to them they’re just simply playing music. And that’s what keeps them so lovable.
Falling in line with their prolific unpredictability, the above track explores a darker, more eerie pop side of the band. I think you’ll dig it. This is the song recorded in their living room that fell out of the CDR left taped on my door this morning.
Thanks Samarella, a reader and fan! for sending us this link. Some of these folks look like Durhamites…..not saying who
March 31st before our show @ Motorco we will meet at Bull McCabes 8:30. Fuel up on your beverage of choice and ride your mother f%$king bike with us to the show.
Seven Stars Cycles are sponsoring this with us.
Coffee bike will be on hand at the club!
Can we get any other people in on this?
March 31 motorco
Saint Solitude and The Wigg Report
We (Christine and Stephen) went out on our “Bike Friday Family Tandem” Friday night. It was a trip! Christine was the “captain” or in the front and Stephen had the pleasure of holding on for dear life in the back. Needless to say, the night got more and more interesting as it got later. First stop, Broad Street Cafe. Just don’t take that corner too quick! Whoops, Stephen just fell off! Are you OK? Yes, apparently he is as he is doubled over crying laughing. So back to the Pizza, Hoppyum beer and Calamari…..yum…but we also enjoyed two guitar players up on stage…one who may have been visiting another planet that night.. oh well. that was kind of our plan too…so Second stop, The Green Room….more local beer thanks to Duck Rabbit Stout! The place was packed, all pool tables and shuffle board tables full but we were content people watching from the bar and chatting with the friendly bar tender. But cant stay because we have to ride that bike! So third stop, La Salamandra for a Craig Powell house show….in the restaurant. Here tonight are 2 out of town bands. We saw Total Slacker from Brooklyn -which they were not…total slackers that is. We still have one song “you have to love yourself” stuck in our minds. One look at these skinny 3 some and you would not believe the heavy wall of sound they could produce ! My neck still hurts from rocking out! We totally dug this band….hope they come back. It’s late and our balance is starting to come into question……time to go.
Back on the bike, up and down hills, crashing into the yard and another night done!
Stay tuned because we are coming up with a way to let others experience a Wigg ride.
Since Saturday we have been seeing folks walking around in a daze! The show at Pinhook left behind some carnage (hangovers).
Special thanks to those who shouted out lyrics, requested songs and shared something with the crowd.
Brainbows ripped The Pinhook up. They have an amazing energy that really knocks people back on their heels. I saw some heads shaking which is suprinsingly enough, a hard task to accomplish. We hope to play with them again soon…real soon! What a great band.
Free Electric State also got some hips swiveling in the crowd and a light show that added to the swirly, groove they had going on. I heard one person state they may have had an out of body experience.
We ate at Salamandra last night. One of my favorite spots to eat in all of Durham! Manuel, the owner was saying how much he loves having The Layabout shows at the restaurant. He was super happy while talking about the shows. When I asked him how everything else was going he told us his wife almost died and she now has to receive dialysis twice a week. Obviously this is bad news for him and it will cost him a Sh*t load of money. So, I was thinking if you have gone to see a show there but not visited on another night or day, you should go. If you are vegetarian he has food for you, if you eat meat he has food for you. I do not think he has any vegan plates……buy a beer, or paleta (Popsicle) then.
Manuel is a great guy that seems to understand and embrace the Durham music community…….let’s pay him a visit and welcome him to the scene.
Hillsborough road in Durham….go check it out eat and drink!
Independent pop/punk, indie, anti-folk band located in Durham, North Carolina. email us at: wiggreport @ yahoo.com
