Friday, October 11, 2024 @ 6:00 pm | Back Lawn
NCMA Winston-Salem (formerly SECCA) is proud to present The Messthetics, live in concert at the Lakeside concert series on Friday, October 11. Special guest 1970's Film Stock will open the show. Doors open at 6pm, with music beginning at 7pm.
Get Tickets (Members $22, Non-members $25)
PLEASE NOTE: The Lakeside stage viewing area is along a natural, grass lawn hillside. Attendees wanting concert-views are encouraged to bring small outdoor chairs or blankets. The Hanes House terrace atop the hill has limited seating on a first-come, first-served basis.
The Messthetics
The last time drummer Brendan Canty and bassist Joe Lally were in a band together, they were the rhythmic architects for Fugazi, an organization whose decade and a half of disciplined progressivism provided a necessary bridge between the zenith of late-punk expression and everything alternative in rock that followed. In 2016, the two were enlisted by guitarist Anthony Pirog in a conspiracy to subvert and reimagine the power trio, bringing fully into the 21st Century a form that may have reached near perfection with Hendrix's Band of Gypsys on the very first day of the 1970s.
"The Messthetics make instrumental music that's a sonic adventure, and those adventures feel like a friendly challenge to both the listener and the musicians. Two of those musicians, Brendan Canty (drums) and Joe Lally (bass), were the backbone of Washington D.C.'s legendary band Fugazi, while Anthony Pirog is a man of many facets and his guitar can wail or tranquilize." – NPR
ABOUT 1970'S FILM STOCK
As 1970s Film Stock, guitarist Eddie Garcia lays down hard on the altar of pedal worship, drowning audiences in a fuzzy wash of guitars that stagger between beauty and chaos. Experimental and shoegaze sound collages rub up against finger-picked melodies and sustained drones. 1970s Film Stock is often described as "cinematic," with looping ambient textures, improvisation, skewed hooks, and live compositions that work as a soundtrack of a lost film.
"He powers his individual abstraction with fondness for Alan Licht and Derek Bailey, his guitar crying, sighing and screaming broken riffs and dissonant themes." - Grayson Haver Currin
About Lakeside
Drawing inspiration from a legendary 1990 Sun Ra Arkestra performance at the same spot, Lakeside is a new genre-bending concert series showcasing today's best pop and rock acts on the scenic grounds of NCMA Winston-Salem. With a stage situated on a picturesque hillside overlooking a spring-fed lake, the landscape's natural amphitheater and wooded setting creates a concert experience unlike any other.