Wavelength Presents:

The Nihilist Spasm Band 50th Anniversary Concert feat. Joe McPhee + HSY + The Dead Are Those Who Have Died

September 17, 2015 @ 12:00 am

9:00 PM

The Garrison

1197 Dundas St. W.

19+

$12 adv

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The Nihilist Spasm Band 50th Anniversary Concert feat. Joe McPhee + HSY + The Dead Are Those Who Have Died

Wavelength Presents:
THE NIHILIST SPASM BAND
featuring Joe McPhee

50th Anniversary Concert
“The World’s First Noise Band,” from London, Ontario, reunite with  collaborator McPhee, multi-instrumentalist from Poughkeepsie, NY

with special guests:

HSY (Toronto / Buzz Records)
The Dead Are Those Who Have Died (Toronto)

Thursday September 17, 2015
The Garrison, 1197 Dundas St. W.

Doors 9pm – 19+

TICKETS $15 AT THE DOOR

Thursday September 17 at The Garrison (1197 Dundas Street West), Wavelength proudly presents one of three 50th Anniversary Concerts for The Nihilist Spasm Band, the “world’s first noise band,” that formed in London, Ontario in 1965 playing store-bought kazoos. For these concerts, also taking place in Guelph and London, the NSB reuinites with past guest recording artist and stage-mate, improv jazz brass man Joe McPhee, of Poughkeepsie, NY.

This show connects to the NSB to the next generation of noise-rock artists in Toronto, with the bill rounded out by sludge-punks HSY (Buzz Records) and the return of the enigma that is The Dead Are Those Who Have Died.

Presented in collaboration with Kazoo! Guelph and the Museum of London.

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