It’s Monday again. You’re probably just waking up from your Cinco De Mayo parties, throwing on your darkest pair of sunglasses, clinging to your coffee cups, and wondering when the birds outside your window suddenly turned into a symphony of shuttle engines blasting off. Well, we have the ultimate hangover cure which has nothing to do with hair of the dog and everything to do with free tickets to hear some Alien-made music.
This Thursday, May 10th, your pals at 9:30 Club are bringing you music from other planets, featuring Spiritualized, a Space-Rock group from across the pond, supported by the soulful southern belle, Nikki Lane and we have a pair of tickets to give away.
Spiritualized, led by Jason Pierce, are touring the planet to support their seventh and newest album, Sweet Heart Sweet Light, which was just released in April. Spiritualized will be supported on the North American leg of their tour by Nikki Lane, who has a Nancy Sinatra demeanor and a warm, smooth sound to her music.
Pierce and his band recently dropped their newest single, “Hey Jane,” and a short film to accompany it. The video provides a compelling story about a transvestite and her run-in with a customer with an ending you probably won’t see coming. The rest of their new album walks along the line between BritPop and Surrealism, touching on mortality and some of the subjects previously discussed in their extensive catalog.
Nonetheless, Spiritualized masterfully craft their songs into beautiful stories, some as complex as the ship Pierce must have landed here in, and others as simple as the cave drawings detailing his arrival.
Win two tickets to this Thursday’s show and give yourself a nice pick-me-up to help you forget about waking up in a Roswell drunk-tank by telling us, in the comments below, your favorite space-themed song. My favorite would have to be “the Moon is in the Gutter,” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
We’ll choose one winner for the pair of tickets this Wednesday (5/9) at noon!
