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Bands keep ska music alive
■ Reel Big Fish and Goldfinger
bring ‘Crouching Fish,
Hidden Finger’ to WOW Hall
By Ryan Earley
for the Emerald
Just two or three years ago, the
bouncy horn blasts and guitar riffs
that characterize ska music abound
ed on alternative radio stations
across the nation. Bands such as Sub
lime and No Doubt climbed the
charts with their hybridized ska-pop
sounds. However, as time passed, the
fickle ear of the alternative audience
turned away from ska music.
Aaron Barrett, lead singer and gui
tar player for Reel Big Fish, recently
told fellow ska band Slow Children
at Play that he wants to keep ska
alive. Reel Big Fish is one of those ska
bands experiencing a popular re
vival, and in the interview on Slow
Children at Play’s Web site,
www.SCAPmusic.com, Barrett said
he seems in an appropriate position
to try to revive ska music.
No amount of adversity has
stopped Reel Big Fish, or the band’s
latest tourmate, Goldfinger, from do
ing what it does best. On Saturday,
the two bands will bring their
“Crouching Fish, Hidden Finger”
tour to WOW Hall, reviving the “So
Cal” sound in the Pacific Northwest.
This latest tour marks the first
time in four years that Reel Big Fish
and fellow Orange County natives
Goldfinger have toured together. Af
ter an initial tour through America
this summer, the duo of bands
added another national leg to the
date list, this time with different
opening acts.
According to sophomore busi
ness major Matt Dour, a fan of Reel
Big Fish and Goldfinger, both bands
are famous for their high-energy live
performances.
“I’ve heard they have a really ac
tive show, and I want to go see it,”
Dour said.
Since hitting modern-rock suc
cess with their breakout hit “Sell
out,” Reel Big Fish has continually
toured, supporting two albums full
of new material and a live compila
tion. The band also reached main
stream audiences with a cover of A
ha’s “Take On Me,” thanks to its
movie and video tie-in with the
campy “BASEketball.” After that
hit, the band recorded a string of
covers, culminating in the release of
a live album made up exclusively of
its versions of older songs.
Courtesy photo
Reel Big Fish will come to Wow Hall on Saturday with fellow ska band Goldfinger as part of
the second leg of the bands’ “Crouching Fish, Hidden Finger” tour.
Similar to Reel Big Fish, Goldfin
ger rose from the Orange County un
derground in 1996 with its single
“Here in Your Bedroom.” The song
garnered much radio play and in
spired the band to play a remarkable
382 live shows that year.
Goldfinger followed its success
ful self-titled debut with “Hang
ups” the following year. The album
featured another hit single, “This
Lonely Place.” Goldfinger consists
of four core members who occasion
ally incorporate horn sections into
their songs.
Neither Goldfinger nor Reel Big
Fish has released any new material in
more than a year. According to
mtv.com, publicists for the tour insist
that while both bands will incorporate
fan favorites into their sets for the tour,
the bands also have new material.
On past legs of the tour, well
known bands such as Zebrahead and
Homegrown opened the shows, but
for the Eugene concert, the bands
chose Santa Barbara’s up-and-com
ers Sugarcult to start the show.
Sugarcult boasts an impressive list
of past membership in other bands.
The band’s guitar player, Marko 72,
previously played with The Ataris,
Nerf Herder and the Swingin’ Utters.
Sugarcult has also received enthusi
asticresponse from critics.
The band’s latest release, titled
“Start Static,” certainly wins them
no awards for originality or power
pop innovation, but its music oozes
vocal harmonies and hummable
hooks. Comparisons to MxPx and
Eve 6 are appropriate.
All three bands are notorious for
their lively performances in con
cert. Part of that enthusiasm for
playing live shows comes from the
bands’ love for their work.
Freshman Leif Karlstrom, a vio
lin major, has followed both bands
for years and has seen Reel Big Fish
and Goldfinger in concert before.
“They put on a good show, but I
saw them a long time ago,” Karl
strom said. “I hope they play a lot of
their old stuff at the show. I like their
old stuff a lot better. ”
Though Karlstrom found
Goldfinger and Reel Big Fish’s lat
est work slightly lacking in compar
ison to their previous albums, he
still definitely plans on attending
the show.
“They’re a bunch of fun guys, and
they have a real original style as far
as the whole ska-punk thing goes,”
Karlstrom said.
In the interview with Slow Chil
dren at Play, Reel Big Fish singer
Barrett said that he truly enjoys go
ing on the road because the band
has fun playing together and visit
ing new places.
“There really isn’t anything I don’t
like about being on tour all the time,”
Barrett said. “I get bored sitting at
home. I love to be able to play for a
new crowd in a new city every day.”
Tickets for the show are $20.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and show
time is at 8 p.m. The WOW Hall is
open to all ages.
Ryan Earley is a freelance reporter for the
Oregon Daily Emerald.
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