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An Unattractive Gig
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Attractive Eighties Women’s Phoebe Cates at an earlier, and presumably less dangerous, show. Photo: Ashley Zeltzer
Last week, one of my recommended shows was the CD release gig for Atlanta’s Attractive Eighties Women on Jan. 12 at the EARL. Unfortunately, that show got cut short by flying glass.
Just four songs into the band’s set, frontperson Phoebe Cates sustained a cut on his wrist that shut down the gig. On the band’s Web site, Cates writes that “a mysterious female assailant hurled her drink at me.” In an earlier post, he calls it “just an unfortunate drunken accident.” After seven stitches and an EARL-full of disappointed fans, he’s on the mend.
The band promises to schedule a make-up gig soon, but in the meantime you can hear the mayhem as it happened. AEW has released a downloadable EP of the four songs that were played before the flying glass incident. It’s called, naturally, “In Stitches” and the cover photo features the instrument of destruction. The remains of the actual glass sit atop the set list that would never to be completed. The entire incident is caught on the EP, with the expected four-letter words flying, so consider this your Parental Advisory Sticker. The band’s Web site is attractiveeightieswomen.com, but if you go that way, you’ll get a picture of Cates’ stitched up wrist. For the faint-hearted, go this way: attractiveeightieswomen.com/index_2.html.
Another casualty of the bloody incident was Cates’ “official Myron Cope Terrible Towel.” The Pittsburgh Steelers fan has posted an open letter to the NFL franchise. He explains that the towel, which he normally uses to wipe sweat from his brow during gigs, came to his rescue when the glass cut his wrist. The towel is now, understandably, bloodstained. The open letter reads, in part, “There are not many Steelers fans here in Atlanta, so finding a new Terrible Towel has proven very difficult. So difficult in fact, I was hoping you could just send me a new one. If you could do that, I assure you I will wave it proudly and often.”
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By Cherry
January 17, 2008 5:17 PM | Link to this
I was at this show and these ladies were ruling the earth when this unfortunate incident occured. I will be at the next show for sure!!!