January 12, 2006
Friends of 20 Minute Loop
Now that Adam Cunha (pronounced “Creen-yowurlp”, from an obscure Portuguese dialect), 20ML’s bass player, has celebrated his birthday last week, we have no one left in the band who is under 30. We are now, officially and entirely, a 30+ band, which means we will have to soften our sound a bit, introduce a soprano saxophone, maybe, or some Afro-Cuban rhythms (synthesized digitally, of course, with a flange effect on the conga, perhaps). Adam is going to have to shorten his bass strap so that he plays it with sharply crook’d elbows, his chin resting above the cutaway, his head just perceptibly moving from left to right, his mouth tightened in a “funk grimace”. It suits his age. He’s going to have to stop wearing those shabby retro-product-logo T-shirts, of course, and if he won’t get a haircut, he can at least start wearing a periwinkle blue bandanna and some Guatemalan cotton Capri pants with a draw string.
Aside from this subtle transformation, having played the swooning Brechtian back-up band to our pal Karen Penley’s curious month-long performance “Not the More Lovely”, we are now ready to resume our status as indie rock legends with a foursome of shows this winter:
- Saturday, January 21st at Café du Nord, SF
with The Plus Ones (show @ 9pm & we're on early!)
- Tuesday, February 21st at Hotel
Utah:
Special acoustic duo of Greg & Kelly from 20ML w/ Carrie Bradley and others (show @ 8pm and we're on early)
- Thursday, February 23rd at the Rickshaw, SF
with Minipop (show @ 8pm, 20ML on 3rd of 4 — ALL AGES!)
- Thursday, March 2nd at Slim’s, SF, to celebrate our label master Jim Greer’s Fortune Records 2006 compilation release with 15 other bands! Yowza!
See our SHOWS page soon for more information on the above, and if you didn’t believe it when we said we’d be mellowing our sound, just look at National Public Radio’s upcoming feature of 20ML on their “Open
Mic” page of All Songs Considered tomorrow, January 13th. Yeah, forget Live 105 or college radio or Pitchfork, we’re the darlings of NPR, home of Prairie Home Companion, where you get seven bluegrass songs for every joke about a Lutheran.
We’ll have to over-compensate for all of this by eviscerating a rotting donkey carcass onstage, rubbing the putrid entrails across our naked bodies, and deep-throating our microphones until the feedback deafens the entire audience.
Here’s to inscrutability,
Your pals,
20ML
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