Tonight! Mer Perfoms with Ragwater Revue
San Franciscans, tonight you are in for a special treat. Mer is performing with the Ragwater Revue at The Stork Club! If you have never seen Mer perform, let me tell you: it’s an experience. I’ve seen her twice, so far. One time, she played violin with The Dresden Dolls, and the other time, it was at our launch party, rockin’ the theremin. And let me tell you people – people faint when she plays. She’s that good.
So imaginging Mer with the Ragwater Revue – “a lethal concoction of booze-fueled swamp lust” – makes me want to hop on a plane to the Bay Area right now. Ragwater Revue combines elements of swampy blues, rockabilly and 1960s garage rock with lyrics that invoke alligator babies, glass eyes and cemeteries. “Imagine an old seedy bar in the 1930s where women adorned in puffy mink shawls smoke using long Cruella DeVille-like cigarette extenders and dark-haired men in suits slowly tap their feet to some jazzy blues,” writes Artsweek California. “Ragwater Revue would be the band on the stage.” As an added bonus, tonight’s show also debuts Coilhouse’s own star commenter Gooby Herms on bass! This show is not to be missed.
21:00 at Stork Club: Death Rock Dive Bar!
2330 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, California 94612. Cost: TBA.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:48 pm
That uber secret COILHOUSE jet hasn’t come through yet, has it?
November 21st, 2008 at 6:50 pm
In general I love Portland and do not regret having left the Bay Area behind. But this, the Election Night improv show, sheesh. Rub it in, why don’t you!
November 21st, 2008 at 7:09 pm
If only it wasn’t going to take 20 years to build the high-speed rail system…
November 21st, 2008 at 8:10 pm
let me tell you people – people faint when she plays. She’s that good.
Yes. Yes she is. Have fun everyone!
November 25th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Oooohweeee I wish I could have been there!!!