From the New Yorker’s list of gigs this week;
“Aug 26: The Asylum Street Spankers, a long-standing free-wheeling music group from Austin, Texas”
Now, how did *they* get their name?!
Intriguingly, the listings either side of this are for an all-girl band, Rasputina, who present their “cheekily maudlin chamber rock while dressed in Victorian finery” – and for a gig featuring Belinda Carlisle (an idol in my University years). I could rather enjoy the prospect of the Asylum Street mob being invited backstage to put their name into practice at both gigs
Belina Carlisle was an idol when you were at University? I thought you were WAY older than that?! Wasn’t Ella Fitzgerald more you time? 😀
Eliane – he’s lying. He doesn’t remember back that far, so he’s just picked some random old person and claimed it’s from his University years in the hope that nobody will ever notice.
I remember reading on their web page that a spanker was a wickedly good guitar player. Given the names of their albums and the underwear they sell on their web site, I’m not buying that explanation!
http://www.asylumstreetspankers.com/