Nw Fixture Sweaty Nipples To Play Mother’s On Saturday
The irrepressibly zany Sweaty Nipples will blast its way into Mother’s Pub on Saturday.
So far, Sweaty Nipples has spent most of 1995 on the road supporting its debut long-player Bug Harvest, released last November.
The eight-piece, thrash-metal-industrial-funk band is somewhat of a fixture on the Northwest music scene.
However, the Portland unit’s much anticipated “Bug Harvest” has not been selling as well as the band, and manager Steve Kruger, had hoped.
“I think that it’s doing fairly well,” said Kruger in a phone interview this week. “It’s not making as big a splash as the EP (1994’s “Demon Juice) did.”
The album has also reaped some unfavorable reviews from some of the band’s hometown music magazines including the bi-weekly Paperback Jukebox.
“What’s funny is the editor of the Jukebox is friends with the band,” told Kruger. “They used to practice in his house.”
But Sweaty Nipples’ popularity is far from waning. The octet continues to pack large clubs across the region.
Plus, by continually touring the country, the group is gaining scores of fans outside of the Northwest.
“On their last tour, they set an attendance record in Amarillo, Texas,” said Kruger.
Sweaty Nipples also played the Eastern seaboard for three weeks.
The band’s Spokane concert date marks the first of a 75-date national tour.
Recently, the band recorded a couple of cover songs, Frank Zappa’s “Peaches and Regalia” and Devo’s “Freedom of Choice,” as B-sides for “Bug Harvest’s” next single “Labrador.”
Music starts at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 and are available at Mother’s Pub and 4000 Holes. You must be at least 21 to attend.
The name of the opening band was not available at press time.
Elsewhere in the night
Portland’s cow-punker Elmer plays the Mica Flats Grange Hall in Coeur d’Alene on Saturday.
Elmer is one of the Northwest’s best-kept secrets. The group has hordes of 7-inchers available, including a brand new one called “Bible Banger,” on Spokane’s Too Many Records.
Portland’s Iceburg Slim and Spokane’s Flies and Clabberhag are also on the bill.
The Show starts at 8 p.m. Admission is $4.
Local country folk singer Nancy Lynn Allen performs at El Toreador, 336 W. Riverside, on Saturday at 9 p.m.
Allen, who has performed all over the Northwest including the Folklife Festival in Seattle and the Columbia Folk Festival, released her first album this year.
The 12-song full-length, entitled “Seconds,” melds country swing to folk, a sound which Allen terms “folky tonk.”
After staging a triumphant show at Outback Jack’s last month, Seattle’s Skin Picnic returns to the venue on Saturday.
Thread and Malicious Mischief open.
Showtime’s at 9:30 p.m. The cover is $4. Bring your I.D.