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Starfucker & Champagne Champagne At Lincoln Hall In Chicago April 12,2011

4/14/2011

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I am not going to use STRFKR. That is stupid. The band is Starfucker. I am thinking of starting a band called the ccksckng mthrfckrs though. Anyway Starfucker, of Portland, played in Chicago at Lincoln Hall with fellow Pacific Northwesterners, Champagne Champagne (who hail from Seattle).

If you happen to see Champagne Champagne you will never forget their name. They chant it in every song and try, with less success as the set goes on, to get the audience to chant it too. You will remember their name on your death bed if you see them. They are, I suppose, a hip hop band with 80s and 90s references thrown in; songs about Molly Ringwald appear and they have a tune where they mix in part of Sonic Youth's Bull in the Heather (the additional lyrics for that song, if I recall correctly, were something about "sucking my dick). They mention dicks and fuck, fuckers, etc with frequency. If it had been 1977 I would have been shocked, SHOCKED I tell you.

BUT they are energetic and engaging and, I bet, judging from the finale they joined in with Starfucker, that if it were more than a trio they would feed of the extra energy. They need to have a big ass band with a horn section. Buy their music so they can afford that, ok?
Starfucker themselves are part of a new trend that old people will whine about. They do mash up style music and they wear all their references on their sleeve and own them.  When they first started the vocals made me a little queasy. They are not strong vocally but if they were it would be a totally different vibe.

And this is all about vibe. One minute you are thinking "Bright Eyes!" and the next "lo-fi dance" and the one after that you forget because you are hopping up and down and humming to yourself.
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with Champagne Champagne for Finale...
The crowd featured a guy who vomited before the show started. And I stood briefly next to two girls who got into a shoving match with another girl. I mention this because both are totally incongruous with the music and the polite, almost mellow hippie sensibility that permeated most of the evening. I doubt the guys in Starfucker start many bar fights.
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I like this one...
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Champagne Champagne Opened

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Champange Champagne!!! Champange Champagne!!! Champagne Champagne!!!
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