Ultimate Fakebook 25th Anniversary Tour / Schatzi / Fun Haunts

Name: Ultimate Fakebook 25th Anniversary Tour / Schatzi / Fun Haunts
Start: 2024-06-28T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Shoeshine Charley's Big Top Lounge

Schedule

Fri Jun 28 2024 at 10:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Shoeshine Charley's Big Top Lounge | Houston, TX

Melding the pop power of 70s groups like Cheap Trick with the snark of 80s alternative bands like the Replacements, Ultimate Fakebook play a brand of emo power pop that resulted in some now cult-classic recordings. 1999's indie This Will Be Laughing Week was reissued by 550/Epic Records in 2000, and remains the band’s best-loved album to date. The trio reunited in 2020 for The Preserving Machine (released by Sonic Ritual Recordings), and their skills were undiminished. Working with Ed Rose, who produced This Will Be Laughing Week, the trio recaptured the powerful pop sound of their early records and added some well-earned maturity to the lyrical content.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of This Will Be Laughing Week, Ultimate Fakebook will do something they never did back in the day—play the original album in its entirety.
After reuniting late last year for the 20th Anniversary of their record Fifty Reasons To Explode, Schatzi is back!
Originating from Oklahoma in the early 90s, Schatzi recorded their first album, Joanie Loves Schatzi in 1998. In 2000, with funding from the members of fellow Austin band Dynamite Hack, they recorded the Death Of The Alphabet EP releasing it locally. Their song, Death Of The Alphabet, included back-up vocals by Adrianne Verhoeven of The Anniversary and would go on to be a staple on college radio. Mammoth Records stepped in to release Death Of The Alphabet followed by the 2002 full-length album, Fifty Reasons To Explode. The band went on to release the 2003 split EP with Motion City Soundtrack on Doghouse Records and another LP, Snow Is For Saving Hearts. The latter was released posthumously in 2012. Throughout their career they played and toured with the likes of The Get Up Kids, Motion City Soundtrack, Shiner, Superchunk, The Promise Ring, Hey Mercedes, Jimmy Eat World, At The Drive-In, Ultimate Fakebook, The Anniversary, Ozma, Minus The Bear, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Cadillac Blindside, among others.
Fun Haunts open the show!
Must be 21 plus to enter.
Advance Tickets are Available and Recommended:
$15 Advance*
$20 Day of Show (CASH ONLY)
* plus $3 surcharge
Schedule:
8 Big Top Opens
9 Fun Haunts
10 Schatzi
11 Ultimate Fakebook