Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires, Nana Grizol, Rocket Bureau

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Wes Frazer

Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires | Oct 2

One of the most exciting live bands currently touring, Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires mixes up intense garage punk with Southern soul testifying. It’s captured on their latest album, Live at the Nick, but the best way to experience it is in a packed club. They are accompanied on their fall tour by Athens, Georgia, folksters Nana Grizol, and the Mickey’s bill also includes hook-laden locals Rocket Bureau.

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Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires from Birmingham, Alabama, represent a new breed of “Sons of the South.” A Glory Fires show channels the ethos of punk rock tent revival which welcomes the audience into their rock’n’roll family. The Glory Fires take aim at social injustice and inequity with brutal honesty, uncompromising language, and high-energy songcraft. Bains III’s favorite fiction author, Flannery O’Connor wrote: “The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.” Watch Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires and you’ll understand that they found the right time and place.

Nana Grizol is a queer rock band from Athens, Georgia. Growing from singer Theo Hilton's earlier solo music, the band played its first show in 2007 and released its first album, Love It, Love It, in 2008. The group now has three studio albums, including 2009's Ruth and the 2017 release Ursa Minor. Over the last decade, the band's lyrical content has shifted to more explicitly focus on queer experiences and intersections of broad political dynamics and day-to-day life. In addition to Hilton, the band currently consists of Matte Cathcart, Jared Gandy, and Robbee Cucchiaro.

Rocket Bureau is the studio creation of Madison analog recording engineer Kyle Urban (Kyle Motor). The Rocket Bureau catalog is eight releases deep including the most recent full length: Phantoms Ringing 67-73. The live version of Rocket Bureau consists of Urban joined by a cadre of local players who are dedicated to bringing his hook-laden creation (and affinity for big sound) to the stage.

Band Order:

1.       Nana Grizol

2.       Lee Bains & the Glory Fires

3.       Rocket Bureau