Your pretty face is going to Hell
Cardboard Brains; photo by Vince Carlucci
Former Cardboard Brains guitar-slinger Vince Carlucci‘s got stuff in a gallery! “Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell” is a collection of pretty pics he took from 1977 to 1980. Artists include Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Deborah Harry, Patti Smith, John Cale, The Viletones, Teenage Head, The Ugly, Cardboard Brains, The Ramones, Frank Zappa, and The Diodes. Opening night is Thursday, June 10, from seven ’til eleven, and it runs to June 24. Oz Studios, 134 Ossington, curated by photographer Joe Fuda.
Classic!
Once you’ve taken a look at some of Vince’s pics, you should not miss Andy (Adny) Shernoff, ex-Dictator and ex-cellent songwriter as he spins tales and plays acoustic guitar at Mitzi’s Sister in Toronto, starts at ten. Teenage Head’s Gord Lewis opens. If you can’t catch Adny in Toronto, he’s also doing “When Giants Walked The Earth — A Musical Memoir By Andy Shernoff” at Call the Office in London on June 11th, and This Ain’t Hollywood in Hamilton on June 12. Were The Dictators one of the best bands to come out of the U.S. of A? Absolutely. Did their roadie turned lead singer name himself after the province and/or state that most resembled a penis? Sure did. (Sorry, Florida, you just don’t cut it next to studly Manitoba.) And did Andy write some of the funniest lyrics ever? You bet:
“Oh Weekend
Bobby is a local punk
Cuttin’ school and getting drunk
Eating at Mcdonald’s for lunch
Oh Weekend
Soon he threw up in the store
But if he does it anymore
I’ll make him eat it off the floor.
The Horseshoe Tavern, June 1978. So far we’re batting .500 on interviews from this poster.
We’re trying to work out an interview, and dying to ask the question that has been on many a Dictators’ fan’s mind: Just wtf is a two tub man? Check out The Andy Shernoff Appreciation Society on Facebook for dates in the States.
Meanwhile, while you’re all out there looking at pictures and listening to stories about growing up with Johnny Thunders and stuff, we’re working people! Tomorrow night co-director Kire Paputts tracks down The Diodes. News at eleven.
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