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******** "ROCK
& ROLL IS SUCH A HASSLE: VARSITY DRAG LIVE IN EUROPE" in stores, iTunes, etc. JULY 13th!
RECORD
RELEASE PARTY: The Middle East, Friday July 24th! ********
UPCOMING SHOWS:
*Friday July 24, The Middle East, Cambridge
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RECORD
RELEASE PARTY for "Rock & Roll Is Such a Hassle"
*Friday, August 21st @ CHURCH (end o' summer party, w/amazing special guests)
2009 UK TOUR DATES: Oct. 3: Cambridge
Oct. 4: Peterborough
Oct. 5: Norwich
Oct. 6: Exeter/Leamington Spa
Oct. 7: Cardiff
Oct. 8: Bristol
Oct. 9: Leeds
Oct. 10: London
IN OTHER NEWS: * Look for our
new page on FACEBOOK, and become a fan! * Currently working on new studio
album, due October! WOO-HOO!
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LINKS! Pictures from the LEMONHEADS/VARSITY DRAG show! ********
>>PICTURES from our June show with THE LEMONHEADS at Bowery Ballroom, NYC!
>>REVIEWED! Our most recent-ish (?) Cambridge show...
>>NEW MP3s! Live 'n' unplugged on WAAF...
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| Ben 'n' Lisa let loose at T.T. the Bear's, 2008 |
Still Noisy
After All These Years
Varsity Drag and the persistence of rawk
Take one cranky, irascible former B-list punk rock star...add a long list of willing co-conspirators and one very patient,
long-suffering spouse...and you got the latest reason to avoid rock venues all over the free world.
Yep, it's all true: Varsity Drag represents the latest free-form Deily-based musical enterprise, rooted in the pre-grunge
pop punk and "alternative" (back when there was such a thing) music of our collective youth, and hurled with cheerful
defiance at the new millennium.
With origins shrouded in the not-terribly-distant haze of the San Francisco Bay area, in the last few years we've been
doggedly pursued by a UK record label who kindly insisted on putting out our record, got ourselves distributed all over the
world, and found ourselves careening off on a 25-city European tour--all without quitting our day jobs.
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| Cantab Lounge, Boston. 2008. |
We play our own new tunes. We play my tunes from the
old (heretofore retired) TAANG!-era Lemonheads catalogue. We play any kinda nonsense we can get away with.
The current lineup consists of yours truly,
my hyper-talented wife (and the band's only Screen Actor's Guild member) Lisa, and long-time collaborator Josh Pickering (PODS, Kodachrome, and
Populuxe--practically my fave band, like, EVER--to name a few). Past members have included Greg Randall and Will Anderson
(Unbalanced), Pat Spurgeon (Rogue Wave, Antenna), Ian G. Miller (Splayed Innards), Andrew Perfetto (Zug Zug), Bob Spector
(The Specs, Zachariah)...not to mention former Lemonheads-fill-in drummer and kid brother Jonno.
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| Cutting a rug at the Midway, Boston MA. |
Amongst the other items we've tossed up here for yer
enjoyment, you'll find the fractured remains of a Varsity Drag "history," lotsa photos, and some MP3s for download. And up
here, you get my solemn promise to organize this better one of these days. Meanwhile, the MySpace page is always current, some various videos are on YouTube, and we're still waiting for some enterprising soul to create a wikipedia page to accompany the growing number of references to us ...
For the nonce, prepare to scroll!
--BD, Spring 2008
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| At CHURCH, Friday the 13th. June 2008. |
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