Invincible Casuals/Dinty Child/Grandpa/Blush
The Invincible Casuals return to the Lizard Lounge April 30th with Dinty Child, Grandpa and a cameo by Blush making their Cambridge debut!
$15/$20 door
Doors 7
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.)
“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
The Invincible Casuals return to the Lizard Lounge April 30th with Dinty Child, Grandpa and a cameo by Blush making their Cambridge debut!
$15/$20 door
Doors 7
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.)
“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
Dinty is a longtime member of the Boston roots/folk scene. A fearless multi-instrumentalist and great songwriter, he can most often be seen with the band Session Americana, as well as the Chandler Travis Philharmonic, the unapologetically loud and grimy Catbirds, as sensitive sideman to any number of singer/songwriters, including Rose Cousins and Kris Delmhorst, and even fronting the twenty piece party band, the Funky White Honkies.
Grandpa is a neo-Pagan existentialist psychedelic folk duo with Casuals guitarist Steve "Woo Woo" Wood and singer Ginger Lund,
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Highlights
- 3 hours
- ages 21+
- In person
- Doors at 7PM
Refund Policy
Location
Lizard Lounge
1667 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
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