Illustration By Win Wallace
Focked Up
Last glimpsed shaking apart the Room 710 balcony, to the detriment of bassist
Win Wallace's rib cage, rampaging local septet
Gorch Fock may have finally found a venue big enough to contain them: the spacious hangar at the old airport that now houses the
Lone Star Rollergirls. Stars-and-stripes-clad frontman
Joey Ficklin commenced last Sunday's bout with a solo trombone rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," then the band spelled the defending champion
Holy Rollers' thrashing of the
Cherry Bombs with a thunderous halftime set. It was the Fockers' first local appearance since returning from an eventful East Coast tour, which found
Gibby Haynes checking out their show with the
Heroine Sheiks in New York, and an unnamed member cooling his heels in a Washington, D.C., lock-up after attempting to douse his own member in 151 and set it ablaze to protest the club's miserly "pull door" practice of only giving money to those bands that patrons expressly say they're there to see. (Ultimately, no charges were filed.) Amid all this excitement, famous British label
Rough Trade picked up GF's
Lying and Manipulating for UK release, and their own label,
Australian Cattle God, has several on tap: 2004's previously self-released
Gorch Fock debut, and August West Coast tour partners
Tia Carrera's
November Session LP, both due in June. Also, new ACG addition
Attack Formation's next LP,
Somebody as Anybody, will be out Aug. 9.
