Neil Michael Hagerty 6-12-03

[MC casketeer]

THURSDAY JUNE 12TH @ ELBO'S IN D8N

NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY & THE HOWLING HEX
(royal trux/pussy galore)

ABRACADAVER! (d8n)

FLIGHT RISK (d8n)

9:00pm
18+

Elbo's
200 S. Jefferson St.
Dayton, OH 45402

http://www.dragcity.com/bands/hagerty.html

[North Berwyn]

Do you have any info about this club? Never been there, and I want badly to attend the show.

NMH PLAYS THAT GOOD OLD ROCK N ROLL is my fav CD of the previous year. Still spin it all the time.

[MC casketeer]

If your coming from south of Dayton....

1: Take I-75 N toward DAYTON.

2: Merge onto US-35 E via exit number 52B toward XENIA.

3: Take the JEFFERSON ST exit on the left toward OH-48/MAIN ST.

4: Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto ramp.

5: Turn RIGHT onto S JEFFERSON ST.

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Coming from North of Dayton...

1: Take I-675 S

2: Take the US-35 exit- exit number 13A-B- toward XENIA/DAYTON.

3: Merge onto US-35 W toward DAYTON.

4: Take the JEFFERSON ST exit toward OH-48/MAIN ST.

5: Take the JEFFERSON ST ramp.

6: Turn RIGHT onto S JEFFERSON ST.


Elbo's is located right next door to Chins restaurant at 200 S Jefferson St, across from the greyhound bus station/gilly's

[MC casketeer]

terwilliger!

[North Berwyn]

From the Chicago Reader
chireader.com

NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY
Saturday 5/31, Empty Bottle
Neil Michael Hagerty is a stylistic drifter: as a member of Royal Trux and more recently as a solo artist, he's floated from weird psychedelia to primitive preblues ditties to Rolling Stones raunch and back again. His sprawling third album, Neil Michael Hagerty & the Howling Hex (Drag City), plays up his peripatetic tendencies: it's 21 songs recorded in four different clubs and studios with a shifting roster of players. "Watching the Sands" takes a heartfelt stab at southern-fried soul, "Firebase Ripcord" offers swaggering rock 'n' roll with meaty baritone sax supplied by sometime Chicagoan Matt Bauder, and "Clermont Heights," a fart of faux-collagist chaos, simulates the disorienting muck of Twin Infinitives-era Trux. A lesser artist might have turned such a project into a scattered collection of genre exercises, but Hagerty's shopworn voice and wah-wah wizardry leave their imprint on each and every tune. A couple of live tracks emphasize his druggy guitar solos, which abandon clear narrative lines to stagger in confusion, but otherwise the album supplies a road map for the strange little universe he's created over the last decade and a half. On this tour Hagerty will be backed by bassist Josh Abrams and drummer Dan Sylvester--a jazzy Chicago-based rhythm section that ought to make the jams a little more elastic. Subarachnoid Space and Paik open. Saturday, May 31, 10 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 North Western; 773-276-3600. --PETER MARGASAK

[redbobsled]

Isn't elbo's the place that has the mannequins dressed in leather all around the ceiling. Or am I totally thinking of someplace else? I remember going to some show in Dayton - maybe Lazy? about 8 or 9 years ago, and I think it was at Elbo's. It was sort of more of a club/bar type environment and less of your show-type environment (like Stache's or Sudsy's).

[MC casketeer]

You're thinking of the Asylum. Elbo's has only been around 2 years or so and is a lot smaller than the Asylum, fits about 200 people. It's my favorite place in the D.O. to see/play a show.

[MC casketeer]

from drag city news...

THE HOWLING HEX TAKES OFF!
With a volley of promotional explosions, including a series of personal appearances underway as we speak, Neil Michael Hagerty and The Howling Hex are off to a running start! The record hit streets everywhere on May 20th and is insinuating itself accordingly. The window box at New York’s famous Other Music was secured. A series of print ads were deployed in such far-flung localities as San Francisco, Denver, Portland, Seattle, Austin, Madison (WI), London (UK), NY(C) and of course good old Chicago, to help raise awareness about this fantastic new album of rock and roll.

Then there’s the television commercial — a 30 second spot running amok on cable networks after midnight. If you’ve seen it, you know — if not, check it out on the front page of this very website. And if you can’t download a file of its size, take it from us, the spot is sweet! It boils the album down to it’s verbal and visual essentials (answering the musical question, if an album is only thirty seconds long, what do you need to know?) and invites the consumer to attend them in the best possible fashion. Meanwhile, Neil is beating the bushes, playing gigs in towns like Detroit, Columbus, Toledo, Pittsburgh, Dayton...and oh yeah, New York city as well. The culturally over-stimulated deserve a little something real too, don’t you think?

The real truth behind all this hoopla is that The Howling Hex is an album that deserves the coverage! Ever since they halcyon days of old Royal Trux, we’re used to getting our minds blown upon receipt of a new album from the house of ideas known as Neil Michael Hagerty. His “thing” has grown and changed over the course of the years — that's part of the fun — but he on TThe Howling Hex he can be found exploring a certain kind of solo-career zenith in terms of composition, execution and production of The Product. The Howling Hex is a detailed, penetrating spin around the world today with all moments of coherence and inchoate wisdom strung together into an extended mix, laden with hit singles, Hagerty-style. The shit’s musical, man! Therefore, we say that fans of music and of recorded art should definitely check out The Howling Hex, which is destined to bring a lot of its experience into your own life, thus creating something else different in the times to come.


http://www.dragcity.com/news.html

[MC casketeer]

TONIGHT!