Deep Fuss, Little Cuts
Little Fuss cuts deep at Deep Cuts on Wednesday, 24 June 2024.
Che Arthur and A Day Without Love open the four-stack bill.
A member of Silversun Pickups, who needs this gig like he needs a hole in the head, spins records between sets.
Mark Erdody, a longtime local musician in the area, is going through a course of treatment and recovery from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Everything is expensive, especially medical bills. Help if you can.
Oh wait, is that Justin Arena behind the drums? Hump Day News covered Arena’s solo gig at last year’s Hope Fest. Which, by the way, is rebranding this year as Moon Over Salem. Sounds spooky!
A Day Without Love performed as a four-piece, kicking out indie rock jams spearheaded by fronter Brian Walker.
The feel was lofi and singer-songwriter driven. You might have recognized a few songs of the recent LP A Stranger That You Met Before, including “Good Friends Are Hard To Find.”
Points awarded to Walker for stage bantering their 2024 Nice Fest gig. Points deducted for getting the month of the fest wrong. The bassist makes the correction!
Che Arthur performed solo, getting even lo-er and fi-er. It was an acoustic punk set. The former guitarist for Atombombpocketknife is based in the Midwest, I think? Possibly Chicago. So says the Bandcamp and he’s playing shows around that region. Extra points for making it out to Shaumberg and Urbana.
Poppy alt rockers Little Fuss closed out the evening with a set of pert and perky fuzz bangers. Heavy 90s breakout indie vibes. Meticulously shaped and crafted compositions run through enough stompboxes to give them a touch of mange. Shades of Matthew Sweet, Garbage, and TIFFY. One of the tracks off their recent EP Lovely Distraction is called “Hypothetical Girl.” Shout out to Theoretical Girl. Shout out to Glenn Branca (RIP 1948-2018).