Support: Live Skull
Live Skull formed in the early 1980s at the end of New York’s legendary No Wave scene, transforming the aggression of burnt-out post-punk into heavy, guitar-driven rock. Mark C and his co-founder, guitarist Tom Paine, were inspired by the nihilistic sounds of No New York and the dissonant walls of Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham. Like their Manhattan comrades Sonic Youth and Swans, Live Skull funneled these influences into loud music that valued melody as much as anarchy. “We loved the noise and chaos in the No Wave bands,” Mark says.
