The Invincible Casuals (aka Incredible Casuals)
Schedule
Sun, 29 Dec, 2024 at 04:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02130 | Jamaica Plain, MA
Doors at 4:00 pmShow at 4:30 pm
ALL AGES
$15 cover (cash only venue)
INVINCIBLE CASUALS- bio:
https://www.facebook.com/InvincibleCasuals/
Founded by Chandler Travis, Steve Shook, and Rikki Bates in 1980, the Incredible Casuals were something of a New England legend until they disbanded in 2013. Their first full-length album, “That’s That”, was released on England’s Demon label in 1986 and on Rounder in the U.S. the following year (following a handful of singles on NRBQ's Red Rooster label, the arrival of later NRBQ guitarist Johnny Spampinato, and the departure of guitarist Shook, later replaced by Aaron Spade.) The original Casuals produced five more "official" full-length releases, along with a score of homemade efforts and a 2007 "Best Of" collection, and toured extensively in the U.S., Europe, and in Japan, where many of their albums have been re-released.
After about ten years of turning down requests to regroup, Travis, Bates, and longtime Casual Steve “Woo Woo” Wood got together in the summer of 2023 to play a memorial show for their fallen colleague Aaron Spade, who died in June, 2023, and enjoyed reviving their repertoire so much that they decided it might be something that somehow really still needs doing, and voila, the Invincible Casuals were (re-)born, much to the delight of a surprisingly large flock of fans who never gave up (including a goodly throng of “Casualties” who never missed a Sunday of their thirty-plus year run at the Wellfleet Beachcomber, their home bar on Cape Cod.)
Vintage Incredible Casuals blurbs:
“The Casuals make a vintage guitar-driven noise laced with cool Brit-pop hooks and harmonies not unlike NRBQ but with a hint of Replacements-style corrosion...”- David Fricke, Rolling Stone
This ravishing record [“That's That”] is a stark reminder of rock's basic power and simple pleasures. Boy, do we need it now!”- David Hiltbrand, People
“Effervescent pop leaps off “Your Sounds”, coming on like the Replacements romping through “Beatles VI”- Jim Macnie, Musican
“...the Casuals throw off a Rockpile/Costello/Parker-esque type of rude, melodic hardness, then fuck around with it, like XTC... unpretentious fun, I call it...” -John Payne, L.A Weekly
“What a band, what an album. I was going to call “That's That” a minor classic, but I think it's better than that... Rating ****”- Rick Shefchik, St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch
“catchy riffs, twisted lyrics, and enough sloppy enthusiasm to restore one's faith in power pop...”- Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone
Videos:
Invincible Casuals, “Psycho”, 2023:
Invincible Casuals, “Monkey Jones” (excerpt), 2024:
Incredible Casuals, “Jack the Ripper” (2008):
Where is it happening?
3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02130
