Mixed music to rock three bars
By Suan iwccairny
Staff Reporter
The sounds of rock will be abun
dant on West O Street this weekend.
Over three nights, 36 bands will
play at three bars. The Hurricane.
Knickerbockers and P.O. Pears will
be hosts for the Grain Reaper’s Har
vest Ball.
Tobie Stratford, organizer of the
Harvest Ball, has been planning the
event since May. She said she chose
the three bars because of their loca
tion.
“West O is really developing for
live music on a consistent basis,” she
said.
Some of the local bands that will
play in the Harvest Ball include No
Left Stone, Amor’ce, Heroes and Vil
lains and Morphine Angel.
“I really hope the people are there
for this,” said John Fynbu, lead singer
of Morphine Angel.
Fynbu described Morphine
Angel's sound as post-punk-gothic
rock. Angel’s heavy use of drum ma
chines and use of smoke on the stage
are part of its gothic trademark.
“We’re always gagging from the
smoke, but we don’t terribly overdo
it,” Fynbu said, “It’s nothing like
Kiss.”
Morphine Angel will be playing
Thursday at Knickerbockers along
with Tragedy Playground. Grimace
and St. Nickelhead. The lineup at
Knickerbockers features a harder
lineup than The Hurricane or P.O.
Pears. Stratford said she tried to ca
ter each band’s sound to the bars
when deciding the lineup.
“P.O. Pears has very danccablc
music and Knickerbockers has a lot
of the harder sounding bands, while
The Hurricane is somewhere in the
middle,” she said.
Ernie Pulos, who handles promo
tions at Knickerbockers, said that the
lineup at Knickerbockers followed a
theme throughout the Ball.
“Thursday features a local alter
native lineup while Friday is more
blucsish, and Saturday features more
touring bands,” Pulos said. “We’re
Heroes and Villains are, from loft: Kevin Pond, Chris
Hadfleld, John Lefler Jr. and Tony Lamar.
Event: Grain Reaper’s Harvest
Ball
At: The Hurricane.
Knickerbockers and PO.
Pears
Times: today, Friday and
Saturday, beginning at 8:30
p.m.
Tickets: $13 for all three nights,
available at Twisters; $6 for
one night, at the door
really proud to be a part of this.”
In addition to local bands, the
Harvest Ball will also feature some
regional bands. The Kansas City,
Mo., band Solefish, Omaha's Beef
Curtains, Acoustic Juice from
Lawrence, Kan., and Book of Wheels,
a Minneapolis band, are some of the
featured bands from outside of Lin
coln.
Scott Hcrold, a member of Book
of Wheels, also is a former Lincolnile.
His band's performance Saturday at
Knickerbockers, along with Cello
phane Ceiling, Dashboard Mary and
Sufferbus, will be his first in Lincoln
since he left in 1989.
Book of Wheels has been together
since 1991, Herold said. Since the
band formed, they have gained a
growing cult following around Min
neapolis, he said.
Some of the clubs that Herold has
played in Minneapolis include Sev
enth Street Entry and Grand Slam, a
nightclub owned by the former
Prince.
Herold said that Book of Wheels
had a different sound of music beyond
the mainstream. Many of Wheel’s
lyrics rely on storytelling.
“Without trying to sound preten
tious. our music is about how the
technology and the isolation of our
lifestyle has blinded us to see how we
see each other and ourselves,” Herold
said.
Tickets are available at Twisters,
one of the event’s sponsors. Tickets
arc $13 for all three nights and all
three bars. For people who only want
to see one night of the Harvest Ball,
tickets arc $6 at the door. The price
covers all 12 bands playing that
night.
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