Vibrators V2

Vibrators V2 + Jim McGuinn + Battalion Zośka + Pep Rally at MilkBoy

Friday, February 16, 2024 

6:30 PM Doors | 7:30 PM Show

21+

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About Vibrators V2

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Nigel joined The Vibrators, one of London’s first punk bands, in 1989. The band toured, annually visiting all of Europe and North America, along with a visit to South America in 2019.  Nigel played on many Vibrators albums and wrote songs with band leader Knox Carnochan, who stopped touring a few years ago. Sadly, the Vibrators broke up during the pandemic in 2020.

“Knox’s songs are so good that they need to be heard. I got married and moved to Philadelphia and it felt right to restart the band here as the Vibrators V2,” says Bennett, who previously played with the MTV favorite, The Members, who had hits with songs like “Working Girl,” “Radio,” and “Sound of the Suburbs.”

The new lineup consists of bassist Dave Janney (Creem Circus) and drummer Rick Eddy (Blue Wave Theory). The band has been rehearsing in a secret location in South Jersey and will be webcasting a show over the summer so fans all over the world can see and hear the magic of the Vibrators V2.

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About Jim McGuinn

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A daytime TV airing of The Beatles’ movie Help and early re-runs of The Monkees imprinted a crucial thought deep in my then 4-year old brain: if you were in a band, you could live in a really cool house and make music with your friends.  Fast forward past a dozen years of sports and forts and all the Brady Bunch-esque hijinks of an avocado and tangerine colored childhood growing up in Downers Grove, Illinois, leading to the moment the fateful day in 1982 during my first month at our high school radio station WDGC when I heard “A Town Called Malice” by The Jam (12-inch version, pink and black striped cover, extended “Precious” on the double-A side).  I told my friend Nell it ‘sounded like The Who meets Motown.’  In those days we made our choices and wore our sounds on our hearts and on our sleeves. It became my Year Zero – I tossed out the classic rock (idiot!), leapt into the unknown, and after seeing The Clash at my first show (later learning this exact show radicalized Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello!), I carved a path into punk, new wave, ska, indie rock, and whatever sounded cool on college radio (ie, Hüsker Dü and The Replacements).

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About Battalion Zośka

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Tired of new sounding punk? Yeah so we're we. So we started a band. Never adapting, never conforming.

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About Pep Rally

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Music producer Tommy Joyner of MilkBoy The Studio has hosted and recorded artists from Lilys and Tierra Whack to Miley Cyrus and James Taylor. After all the years of helping other people make their records, the MilkBoy owner is finally stepping out from the control room make his own.Pep Rally makes grown-up pop-rock of the best kind: immediate yet thoughtful, muscular but approachable, intelligent but always danceable, and ideal for the world we live in today. Best of all, Joyner's flexible vocals — sometimes sweetly sung, sometimes spoken, always clear, forthright, and engaging — reveal him to be a frontman with the charisma and appeal worthy of the Philadelphia indie scene he's done so much to foster.

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