An untimely hole in Up Here’s Friday night lineup at the Townehouse is going to be filled a Hamilton band that gets a lot of love on the local scene.
The festival hits downtown Sudbury from Aug. 11-13.
Miriam & Nobody’s Babies had to back out to “unexpected circumstances beyond the band’s or the festival’s control.”
Incidentally, the “Miriam” in Miriam & Nobody’s Babies is Miriam Linna, who is a legend in the New York punk scene and beyond.
Linna actually lived in Sudbury as a child before her family moved to the U.S. She was the second drummer in seminal punk band The Cramps (and some say part of the band’s best lineup) when the musical genre was still in its infancy.
Linna went on to help form new wave band Nervus Rex, then formed The Zantees with her husband, Billy Miller, and later formed the garage band The A-Bones with him. The couple published the fanzine Kicks and later formed New York indie label Norton Records, which they still operate.
And while it’s pretty unfortunate that Miriam & Nobody’s Babies had to back out, that Up Here managed to sign a deal with Hamilton’s Young Rival, a fan favourite in Sudbury.
Young Rival will share the stage that night with Marie-Claire and Blonde Elvis, both of which are projects founded by Sudburians now living in Montreal and Toronto, respectively.
If you haven’t heard of Young Rival, they describe their sound thusly, “like Roy Orbison tripping on acid with Ray Davies and Bradford Cox."
Now relax your eyes and check out this really weird (and also pretty darn cool) video for the song Black Is Good.
