Calexico - cork gig

Jim Comic

Calexico ‘Feast Of Wire’
Cork Opera House

Saturday 12th July @ 8pm

Calexico return with their most accomplished album to date, an ambitious and vibrant clash of musical styles that is as unforgettable as it is innovative

Calexico is a little town sitting (believe it or not) directly on the California-Mexico border. Back in the good old days, before the border was lined with machine gun, toting guards and man eating dogs, the tiny towns of Calexico and Mexical actually overlapped one another and you could stroll down the main street and have a burrito and cerveza with your neighbours without having to show your passport and get strip-searched.

John Covertino and Joey Burns, rhythm section of Giant Sand, and members of OP8 and the lounge-y Friends of Dean Martinez have formed yet another band whose name perfectly exemplifies the type of music it makes. Calexico takes you on a musical journey through the southwestern U.S. and south of the border. This is music you won’t hear in San Diego, but you will if you travel a few miles south, to Tijuana and beyond. Calexico decided to combine the southwestern feel of the Sonoran desert with their old world, spaghetti western arrangements.

Date: Saturday 12th July

Doors: 9pm

Venue: Cork Opera House, Cork
Tickets: €20, €22

Booking: 021 – 427 00 22
(Tickets available in advance from the Cork Opera House)

www.halfmoontheatre.ie

Kali

Well reccomended for anyone who hasn't seen them yet... also both Feast of Wire and The Black Light are excellent albums and well worth purchasing, pure alive americana (for want of a better word).

Hip

Lookin forward to seeing them at Witnness, less than 5 weeks to go - woohoo.