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Sheer Mag, Nancy, Zorn, & Abi Ooze Live Show Review: 3/10, Empty Bottle, Chicago

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BY JORDAN MAINZER

Last night’s show at the Empty Bottle, headlined by Philly rockers Sheer Mag, was perhaps the best-curated four-band bill I’ve ever seen. Sheer Mag itself occupies what I like to call the Cheap Trick territory; they’re likely the heaviest band some pop/funk fans listen to and the poppiest band some hard rock fans listen to, with general punk aficionados in between. As such, each band before them occupied an aspect of their sound: the breakneck Ramones-esque bop of NANCY, the 80′s metal stylings of Zorn, and the bratty surf punk of Hammond, Indiana’s Abi Ooze.

Sheer Mag’s most recent release was 2019′s A Distant Call, and a few years removed from it, they offered what amounted to be a sort of greatest hits set. Though their songs demonstrate radically inclusive politics, live, it’s all about the show. The voice of lead singer Tina Halladay, who donned circular sunglasses like the bonafide rock star she is, perfectly toed the line between a forceful rasp and harmonic sweetness. The main set was bookended by two of the songs in the band’s catalog with burly gang vocals, “Steel Sharpens Steel” and “Turn It Up”, along with meaty guitar solos from Kyle Seely and ripping bass from Hart Seely. Halladay joked about what are essentially the two moods for Sheer Mag songs--excitement and horniness--and the band played nonstop to the point she kept forgetting which song, and mood, was next. It’s amazing to see how far the band has come from the only other time I saw them in 2015, having incorporated different tempos and styles into their aesthetic and live set, from the boogie of “Need To Feel Your Love” to Giacomo Zatti’s cowbell breakdowns of “Worth The Tears”.

NANCY’s blistering set was further amplified by their humorous performance. They were dressed in 80′s tennis and referee outfits, actual rackets in hand that Joe Sussman and Nat Brower used to slap each other on the ass before pecking on the lips--quite a Tim & Eric way to start the performance. Their racket, no pun intended, inspired lots of crowd surfing and stage diving, new songs getting fans jumping just as much as anthems they knew. The band ended their set with a burning cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary”, a nod to their forebears and finally giving unfamiliar audience members something to shout along with.

If you had to pick a sonic wildcard for the night, it would have been Zorn, though even their classic thrash riffs show up in some of Sheer Mag’s material. Where they fit in more and really blew everyone out of the water was their theatricality. As is apparently the usual experience with Zorn, cloaked pallbearers carried frontman Eric Teofilak to the stage in a wooden casket before he cackled and growled his way through the set. The band’s chugging metal ranged from death to sludge, all done with both instrumental expertise and dark humor. When Teofilak didn’t enter the crowd, fans moshed a little bit, careful not to bump the wooden vessel that would escort him back from the stage at the end of their set. Maybe the funniest part of the entire night was seeing the pallbearers, still dressed up, belly up at the bar, and nobody blinking an eye.

Abi Ooze’s jittery punk opened up the night with conviction and confidence. As tight as the band was, it was frontperson Jade Baisa (of Liquids) themselves who was the star of the show, belting with vocal control and urgency just as majestically as they could wail with unruly fervor. As they went in the crowd, eyes locked with fans both familiar and unfamiliar, they were a commanding presence, one representative of a strong Northwest Indiana punk scene.

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Glitter Grey for Giacomo Zatti & @sheermagofficial !!! Exciting times. #candcdrums

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The Big Read – Sheer Mag “So much rock music is so bad and meaningless”

Five years in the past, Sheer Mag had been the buzziest DIY band on the planet. Now, they’re a full-throttle unbiased rock ‘n’ roll machine who sort out home abuse, prejudice, loss of life and anxiousness on ferocious new album ‘A Distant Call’. Singer Tina Halladay tells Ben Homewood why the world wants the Philadelphians…

On November threerd 2015, Sheer Mag began a seven-week European tour with a present at Bologna’s Freakout Club. Its title was an ideal match.

Back then, Sheer Mag had been the 12 months’s most hyped band, freaking individuals out with their buzzing, big-hearted rock‘n’roll, and exploding out of south Philadelphia’s DIY circuit. Accentuating the perfect bits of the basic rock they beloved and subverting its macho stereotypes, that they had an excellent, scratchy emblem and appeared like a bar band excavated from the 1970s. They lived, and recorded, in a spot referred to as The Nuthouse, its compact areas the right incubator for his or her greasy noise. They had launched two self-made four-track EPs, ‘I’ and ‘II’, and their songs gave the impression of they had been on fireplace. The likes of ‘What You Want’, ‘Point Breeze’ and ‘Fan The Flames’ had been white sizzling, insanely good. Sheer Mag had been unsigned and they weren’t doing interviews. Word was spreading, and tickets had been scarce.

“That first European tour was insane,” says the group’s singer Tina Halladay. “Our tour manager messaged me beforehand and said, ‘You will probably break up!’ I was like, ‘Yeah whatever, I guess we’ll see…’”

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Sheer Mag simply needed to play, so they flew to Europe, employed a van and proceeded to spend infinite hours inside it, freezing. Halladay first met guitarist Matt Palmer and the Seely brothers, lead guitarist Kyle and bassist Hart, who grew up in Syracuse, at Purchase College, New York. Their pal Ian Dykstra was on drums in these days, certainly, Sheer Mag have by no means actually had a everlasting drummer (present touring member Giacomo Zatti is their fourth). Clearly, the shut confinement was intense.

“We only had one day without a show and it was spent travelling on an overnight boat to Finland, so we really didn’t have a day off,” Halladay remembers. “It was freezing cold, I don’t think any of us had headphones, mobile phone data or any distractions. It was a pretty torturous seven weeks, but every single venue and every single person was amazing. Every promoter was like, ‘This is the most people we’ve ever had and the most money we’ve ever made.’ The fans were the only reason we survived.”

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Four years later, Halladay can snort on the recollections. NME finds the singer recent from a go to to the publish workplace, at residence along with her brother in Philly. She’s getting ready to place her life in a bag as soon as once more to hit the street this week till early November, in assist of recent album ‘A Distant Call’. Another pulverising few months beckon, however Sheer Mag are nicely accustomed by now.

They accomplished their EP sequence with the blistering ‘III’ in 2016, and debut album ‘Need To Feel Your Love’ adopted in 2017, including disco, plus touches of Abba and Fleetwood Mac to the combination. If their debut confirmed their vary, ‘A Distant Call’ stands tall as their most full work up to now, 10 tracks of straight up rock‘n’roll, pressing and unruly. Mixing from Arthur Rizk provides heat and gloss to recordings first tracked within the freezing snow of DeRuyter, New York.

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It’s additionally their most private launch, ruthlessly exposing Halladay’s experiences (by a fictional protagonist, it offers with physique picture points and particulars a whirlwind interval during which she was fired, damaged up with and misplaced her abusive father) in a means that simply wasn’t potential till now. Sheer Mag wanted to develop into inseparable to make this report, and Halladay says freezing collectively of their van 4 years in the past was the primary main step in getting there.

“We’re all incredibly close, we’re like siblings at this point,” she says. “We struggle, we go on [laughs] and annoy one another and yell at one another. We’ve been by so much.”

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Halladay has come to cherish her relationship with Palmer specifically, after the group’s artistic course of thrust them collectively. Sheer Mag songs are made in a manufacturing line: first, the Seely brothers conjure groove, snap and corkscrew solos, then Halladay and Palmer summon melody and lyrics. On ‘A Distant Call’, Palmer got here to inhabit the singer’s thoughts like by no means earlier than.

“In the writing relationship we have, Matt ends up doing the final arrangements of the melody and lyrics, he writes most of them,” Halladay explains. “Our relationship had to get to this point for him to be able to do justice to my experiences, like my father and our relationship and his death and how that affected me, and body image and just going through the world as a fat woman. It took 24 other songs [on the EPs and ‘Need To Feel Your Love’] to get to the point where he could do it justice and make it really meaningful.”

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What they got here up with grabs you and doesn’t let go.

“How may I be taught to like from someone so abusive?” asks ‘Cold Sword’. “I pulled again and went away, to nurse my coronary heart’s bruises”. On ‘The Right Stuff’, Halladay sings, “Eyes stare and individuals flip, my coronary heart begins to race and my face burns.”

Looking again, she says, the recording course of was taxing within the excessive.

“The conversation around body image is a lot more open now, so that wasn’t too difficult, but the stuff with my father made me confront some things I’d maybe been ignoring or hadn’t been able to articulate,” Halladay explains. “That was really therapeutic and really hard, I think it was hard for Matt to even attempt it. You don’t want to mess something like that up.”

Perhaps the perfect instance of what she means could be discovered inside ‘Cold Sword’, the album’s motoring centerpiece. You’ll need to dance to its thrusting rhythm, however its message is altogether extra severe.

“It’s about my father and it’s the one that was the most difficult to write, record and deal with,” she says. “I’ve told Matt a lot about mine and my father’s relationship and his actions towards me and the rest of my family. I wrote it all down. I wrote everything I could remember, every experience, like being terrified and upset, just every moment that he terrorised mine and my family’s life. I wrote pages and pages of what I could remember in order and gave it to him to work with.”

Photo: Angela Owens

Elsewhere, in amongst the anxiousness and ache of Halladay’s revelations are bursts of Sheer Mag’s customary imagery: picket traces, crooks, dodgy offers, bombs, jail cells and the mayhem of conflict and politics. These songs are a blur of private candour and common truths, set to unrelenting groove and whole guitar hedonism, providing wonderful distinction to their blackened content material. Bass traces pulsate, guitars shimmy and shake, drums thwack. As at all times, it capabilities as one large rallying name, and Halladay is proud to say so. Sheer Mag are right here to say that the private and political aren’t divisible.

“What a lot of people in the world don’t realise is that politics is in everything,” the singer says. “The life that you live, the food you eat, the people you meet, it all has to do with politics and the way our systems are built and created. The people you’re attracted to, the people you see every day, all those things have to do with politics, so there’s no way to not be political. To say something like, ‘I’m not political’, is just showing your ignorance or your privilege.”

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Avoiding politics can be “a cop out” for Sheer Mag, and Halladay regales us with some latest drama round planning their tour merchandise for instance the purpose.

“We’re planning to sell a poster that will benefit some Planned Parenthood [sexual healthcare organisation] schemes in Wisconsin and they said, ‘Are there certain places you don’t want to sell it because maybe people will be upset and not agree with it?’” she says.

“Hell no! Anyone opposed to Planned Parenthood is not someone I want to be my fan or be at my shows, so no thank you. I just don’t see how someone who could feel that way would like our music.”

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Halladay spits out the tip of her sentence, completely mystified. Her confusion is no shock: Sheer Mag’s bond with their followers is apparent. People wait patiently to speak to the band after reveals, forming snaking traces for the merch desk, desperate to get nearer.

“It’s always very overwhelming and awesome, especially women coming up to me and telling me things like, ‘I started a band because of you.’ I’d never expected for people to care so much and be so excited, especially so early on,” says Halladay.

The singer has a idea to clarify the devotion and love, too.

“It’s a lot of [reasons], but the one I feel the most is that I don’t look like every other person in a band and I don’t sing about the same things every other person sings about,” she says. “It’s important for people to see themselves, people can relate to me because I’m other and I’m different and that is important to people.”

Photo: Marie Lin

Halladay noticed the identical in Judas Priest singer Rob Halford and Thin Lizzy’s Phil Lynott, who she describes as her “favourite” (she has Lynott inked on her proper thigh and named her canine The Rocker after him). But whereas she says “this band and me being in it wouldn’t have existed 30 or 40 years ago,” she notes there’s nonetheless “a lot of bullshit to deal with”.

“It’s like, bouncers automatically stopping me and no one else, if I don’t have my [backstage] pass or something,” she explains. “Even promoters who haven’t done their research saying, ‘Oh are you the tour manager? Or are you doing merch?’ I’m just like, ‘No, my picture is on the wall right behind me.’ It’s just ignorance, it’s silly. It makes them look stupid.”

Halladay has acquired used to setting such individuals straight in no unsure phrases. When NME first interviewed the singer at SXSW in 2015, it was after a present at which she shoved a person again into the gang as he came upon stage fumbling on the crotch of his denims. “Get your dick back in your pants dude,” she advised him.

Ever since their earliest days, there’s been a way of necessity about Sheer Mag; they’re a band the world wants and they understand it.

“There are a lot of people who want to see themselves. There are young girls out there who’ve never seen a person who looks like me leading a band like this, that representation and seeing yourself is really important for people to realise their potential and what kind of a person they want to be,” says Halladay. “White men have all of these different role models in the world being shown to them, it’s not the same for everyone.”

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Sheer Mag, then, current an exciting various. Two albums in, they’re thriving.

“So much rock music in popular culture is so bad and meaningless in my eyes,” Halladay continues. “I love rock‘n’roll, so for people to have to dig so deep to find music that is meaningful sucks.”

Thankfully, it’s not essential to dig to seek out Sheer Mag. They’re nonetheless placing music out by their very own Wilsuns RC imprint, ordering vinyl and dealing with merch, however their stance on the music press has softened and they’re extra seen than ever.

“At the beginning we were just trying to figure out what kind of a band we were, so we didn’t want to just latch onto these ideas or anyone that could take advantage of us or control us,” Halladay says of their preliminary reticence. “At this point we know who we are as a band, we know what we want and we have the confidence and power to say, ‘Ok, people want to hear this, so let’s see what’s important for us to say.’”

As for the mechanics behind constructing their empire, the band now have a supervisor and have simply taken on “people to help us with money and business stuff”. Halladay paints a easy, contented image.

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So, is the label chase over?

“If we are being chased then they’re not contacting me!”

The singer laughs, clearly blissful Sheer Mag are doing this on their very own. Really, it’s the one means it is sensible. Their music comes from a primal place, mixing our most instinctive emotions into hopeful, important rock‘n’roll, stuffed with motion.

“This band, it’s not a want, it’s a need. Every day,” Halladay sums up. “It’s so important and good for me to be able to perform and let out all that aggression, anger and energy inside of me that needs to come out. When I’m not on tour for a long time I lose my shit. I need that release, that feeling, to not feel totally crazy and restless.”

Tina Halladay can’t cover the thrill in her voice and no marvel. Sheer Mag are on the street once more.

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PAVIA – Si è inaugurata oggi, 31 agosto, la grande mostra “Longobardi. Un popolo che ha cambiato la storia”, che fino al 3 dicembre sarà esposta al Castello Visconteo di Pavia, sede dei Musei Civici. La vernice La “vernice, alla quale abbiamo partecipato anche noi di “Storie & Archeostorie”, si è tenuta alla presenza del sindaco di Pavia Massimo Depaoli, dell’assessore alla cultura Giacomo Galazzo, dei curatori Gian Pietro Brogiolo e Federico Marazzi, del direttore dei Musei Civici pavesi Susanna Zatti e dei responsabili dei musei dove dopo il 14 dicembre la mostra farà tappa, ovvero Paolo Giulierini del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli e Yuri Piotrovsky dell’Ermitage di S.Pietroburgo (dove la mostra sarà esposta dalla primavera prossima).

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La mostra si segnala per vari motivi. Primo, la vastità del numero dei reperti: 300 tra monili, gioielli, armi, ceramiche, oggetti di vita quotidiana, che consentono di gettare uno sguardo completo su tutti gli aspetti della civiltà longobarda (per maggiori dettagli, leggete il reportage, con foto, che avevamo pubblicato dopo la presentazione della rassegna a Milano). Secondo, perché presenta molti oggetti emersi dagli ultimi scavi condotti in questi anni (provenienti, ad esempio, dalla necropoli piemontese di Sant’Albano Stura, in provincia di Cuneo), e alcuni di essi sono esposti in questa occasione per la prima volta. Terzo, perché sempre per la prima volta si tenta di restituire, finalmente, ai Longobardi la loro vera e fondante identità. In questi ultimi anni, infatti, al centro del dibattito accademico si è situato proprio il problema dell’identità delle popolazioni barbariche, e germaniche in particolare, con i Longobardi naturalmente tra queste. Alcune scuole di pensiero si sono spinte a negare che queste popolazioni possedessero un identità propria e ne fossero pienamente consapevoli, e sono propense invece a considerarle sempre e soltanto in rapporto alla “superiore” civiltà romano-bizantina, della quale non sarebbero altro – semplifichiamo ma non troppo – che una espressione ancora incompiuta. Si è inoltre rifiutato di poter individuare, in base alla tipologia dei corredi rinvenuti, una precisa attribuzione etnica, ritenendo che la divisione creatasi dopo l’arrivo dei Longobardi in Italia non sia tanto tra “Longobardi” germani e “Romani” autoctoni quanto tra dominatori, liberi e aventi il diritto di portare le armi, e dominati, inermi.

Su questi aspetti, invece, i curatori della mostra – Federico Marazzi e Gian Pietro Brogiolo – sono stati molto chiari: l’insediamento longobardo fu caratterizzato da una marcata identità riscontrabile sia nella gerarchia sociale (suddivisione della società in liberi, semiliberi o aldii e servi) che nella tipologia di sepolture e nelle differenze dei corredi ivi presenti, nei nomi dei luoghi, nella legislazione e nelle istituzioni. In questo video, una parte dell’intervento di Brogiolo a questo proposito, assai chiaro e categorico (ci scusiamo per il ribaltamento delle immagini, dovuto a un improvviso… problema tecnico):

Del rapporto tra i Longobardi e l’identità italiana, e dei Longobardi con il Mezzogiorno, ha invece trattato Federico Marazzi, come potete ascoltare in questi due brevi contributi:

L’allestimento della mostra, firmato da Angelo Figus, molto originale e accattivante, è ben fatto e riesce a coinvolgere lo spettatore anche grazie alle videoproiezioni in 3D, che ripercorrono tutta l’epopea del popolo longobardo e i caratteri significativi della loro cultura. L’unica pecca, se così si può dire, oltre alla conferenza stampa di presentazione decisamente troppo lunga (quasi un’ora e mezza, con un caldo davvero soffocante: pietà!), è dovuta agli spazi: ci è sembrato che le Scuderie, molto adatte per mostre di carattere più “intimistico”, siano un po’ troppo anguste per un simile dispiego di pezzi, che risultano così un po’ troppo compressi e sacrificati. Le meraviglie di oreficeria e artigianato longobardo, le sculture e i fregi, insomma, meritavano secondo noi un po’ più di spazio. Impeccabile e imprescindibile il catalogo Skira.

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