TED LEO & THE PHARMACISTS @ Tsunami Club

Ultrakurzfristiges Sonderkonzert!!! Günstig und Geil. Weitersagen, Freunde einladen und vorbeikommen! DANKE!

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Ted Leo heißt mit bürgerlichem Namen Theodore Francis Leo und stammt aus einer begabten Familie. Seine beiden Brüder sind ebenfalls Songwriter, er selbst hat einen Abschluss in Anglistik an der Universität Notre Dame gemacht. Der 1970 in Indiana geborene Ted beschließt, den Weg des Punk zu beschreiten und bringt mit der Band Animal Cracker 1991 einen ersten Output zu Stande. Es folgen andere Bands und mehrere Platten: In den Neunzigern spielt er bei Citizens Arrest oder Chisel. Erst kürzlich erschien sein neuestes Album auf Matador Records. Und ganz kurzfristig kommt er heute exklusiv nach Köln zum Supersparpreis von nur 6€. Also, nix wie hin!

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Maybe the dilapidated garages and all-ages clubs of the East Coast post-hardcore scene of the late 80s is a fitting place to begin our story. That’s where the chronicle of our era’s ever-humble valedictorian, Ted Leo, really gets interesting, anyway. It was here in bands Citizen’s Arrest and Animal Crackers (and later as the main song writer in Chisel) that Ted developed a sharpened political prowess, an assiduous commitment to his Gibson ES-335, an ear for melody, and charisma contagious enough to be considered chemical weaponry. A mod-punk savant in an age where punk (like practically everything intangible we’ve ever expressed interest in) has been replaced by product. With his latest, "Living with the Living," Ted Leo delivers that existentialist ethos to a new crop of rude boys.

For their fifth full-length release (and first with Touch and Go Records), Ted Leo and the Pharmacists met up with Brendan Canty (Fugazi) at Long View Farms to iron out a new set of anthems that arrive with a confident and outspoken immediacy. With "Living with the Living," Ted & Co. wipe clean the slate that once held names like Weller, Strummer and Bragg and indulge some of their farthest-reaching musical ambitions.

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Beginn: 21 Uhr, Eintritt: 6 €

Tsunami Club Köln (Südstadt)
Im Ferkulum 9 (Haltestelle: Chlodwigplatz)
0221/80 16 33 4
http://www.tsunami-club.de/