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Boston gets Cramped
The Cramps at Avalon, Denis Leary's fifth annual Celebrity Hat Trick, and more

How to make a monster

There are plenty of old punk bands who haven’t aged particularly well — the image of the Sex Pistols last summer, as bloated and lost as near-death Elvis, comes to mind. One band who don’t fit the profile are the Cramps — they may not be quite as insane as the band who could blend in with the inmates on those occasions when they played mental institutions, but as they get more cadaverous each year, they increasingly embody the sepulchral rot of such garage-punk standards as "Goo Muck" and "Human Fly." When they make their annual Halloween tour this year, they’ll be promoting a two-disc set of early, live, and rare tracks, How To Make a Monster (Vengeance), that includes selections from their third gig ever, on which it’s said that between songs you can hear a drug deal going down at Max’s Kansas City. The Cramps hit Avalon, 15 Lansdowne Street in Boston, on October 16. Tickets are $17.75; call (617) 931-2000.

Hockey imitates life

Ever since his cousin, a Worcester firefighter, perished in a warehouse blaze, Denis Leary has been holding celebrity hockey games to raise money for departments in Massachusetts and, after September 11, in New York. He’s always been unsparing with his efforts, but this year we think he may have gone over the top: he went to the trouble to create and star in a cable drama series, Rescue Me, in which he plays an NYC firefighter trying to get over the loss of a cousin in the World Trade Center. Did he do it just to drum up business for the hockey game? This past Wednesday, Leary was scheduled to unveil plans for the Leary Firefighters Foundation’s fifth annual Celebrity Hat Trick, in which "Hockey’s greatest skate for America’s bravest"; it’s set for the FleetCenter on the afternoon of Tuesday September 28. From the hockey world, the competitors will include Johnny Bucyk, Cam Nelly, Pat LaFontaine, Ken Hodge, John "Pie" McKenzie, Rick Middleton, Bobby Orr, and Derek Sanderson. Hollywood rink rats Kiefer Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, Steve Buscemi, and Scott Wolf will be along too. Tickets are $25 to $100; call (617) 931-2000.

Butthole surfing

If you’re of drinking age now, it’s possible that your dad was into this band called the Butthole Surfers — not the one who had that annoying 1996 techno-grunge hit "Pepper" (well, okay, that was them too) but the psychedelic hardcore guys who ate lotsa acid, got naked, and set themselves on fire while kicking up apocalyptic cacophonies of sound with titles like Psychic . . . Powerless . . . Another Man’s Sac. (Imagine Gwar, only without costumes and special effects.) As "Pepper" attests, the madness got lost somewhere along the way. But frontman Gibby Haynes, who has always had a problem or three, has gone and made his first solo album, Gibby Haynes and His Problem (Surfdog; due September 4), and advance word is that it’s heavy and really screwed up and has a song called "Redneck Sex." Gibby celebrates by doing, well, God knows what he’ll do when he gets to T.T. the Bear’s Place on September 24, but we’re sure you’ll want to be there. That’s at 10 Brookline Street in Central Square; call (617) 931-2000.

Talking points

The last time the world’s greatest mime, Marcel Marceau, came to the American Repertory Theatre, we made an astounding discovery: the man may not speak a word on stage, but if you happen to interview him, it’s almost impossible to shut him up. If we had a half-day to kill, we’d have rung him up again, but as we’re in a hurry, we’ll just give you the basics from this here press release: Marceau and his company return to the ART September 10 through October 9 in a new production, Les Contes Fantastiques ("Fantastic Tales"), in which Marcel takes a solo and then the company unveils three mimodramas that "pay homage to Japan’s Edo period, to China, and to 19th-century Italy." That’s at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street in Harvard Square. Tickets are $35 and $45; call (617) 547-8300.


Issue Date: August 13 - 19, 2004
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