Off the strength of the great record Paravista Social Club, I went out to see the band Scott and Charlene\u2019s Wedding at Cake Shop Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Scott and Charlene\u2019s Wedding is the project of Craig Dermody, a young Australian living in Brooklyn.\u00a0 Dermody gets a hand from others but he\u2019s the main force.\u00a0 Social Club is his lone full length.<\/p>\n
The thirty-minute Wedding set was a bit sloppy as Dermody relied on a brand new guitar player to supplement his sound.\u00a0 Many of the great hooks lacing the recorded versions of the songs Epping Line and Footscray Station failed to emerge as Dermody and his helper struggled to find chemistry.<\/p>\n
The first band of the evening was a pleasant surprise.\u00a0 Lame Drivers from Brooklyn played an energetic handful of catchy songs in the twenty minutes allotted them.<\/p>\n
Drivers bassist Joe Posner had the line of the night when he sarcastically thanked the packed house for \u201csticking around.\u201d\u00a0 Most of those assembled had come early to gain entry for the buzzed-about headliner Royal Headache.<\/p>\n
It was announced last month by Cake Shop\u2019s operators that a sudden, larger-than-expected tax obligation sought by the property owner and an unanticipated state-issued fine for noise and underage drinking violations have put the club\u2019s future in peril.\u00a0 Rather than raise the white flag as so many other independently-run venues are forced to do around here, Cake Shop has initiated an internet campaign to raise quick cash to erase a debt that\u2019s at least $78-thousand according to a Times story <\/a>printed late last month.<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t stick around for Royal Headache.\u00a0 I rushed home to catch the end of the baseball games and was able to see MLB Network\u2019s bonus coverage of the Giants telecast as Matt Cain finished his perfecto.<\/p>\n Working the final innings solo in the KNBR radio booth, 36-year-old Giants broadcaster Dave Flemming was solid and unusually calm as he described history.\u00a0 Here\u2019s his call of the game\u2019s final out:<\/p>\n