Has it only been five years? I feel like they’ve been blowing my head off for longer than that. (Favorite memory so far — finally leaving the Biltmore on ‘Obama night’ November 2008 and walking smack dab into the What Cheer? Brigade parading around downtown. Euphoria overload.) At any rate, they will be celebrating their anniversary this Friday at AS220 and will be joined by any and all former members who can get there on time. The weather looks perfect for more parading btw. . . just saying. The New York Times reviewed their recent April show at Santos Party House,
Right on his heels came the What Cheer? Brigade, a punkish, face-painted brass band with a dozen or so members, who alternated between the stage and the dance floor. They were thrillingly competent, with undimmable energy. All together, it was an explosion of good cheer from the greater Providence, R.I., area, serious in its frivolity.
Thrillingly competent?!!!!! Perfect.
$8, 9pm, Friday, AS220, with Veveritse, Arcing, Jacob Berendes and the Terribles