SHUDDER TO THINK Reunite For First Shows In Over A Decade
SHUDDER TO THINK
REUNITE FOR TWO SURPRISE SHOWS IN LOS ANGELES:
FIRST SHOWS IN OVER A DECADE
“We are Shudder to Think and we intend to do this more!”
L to R: Nathan Larson, Craig Wedren, Adam Wade, Jherek Bischoff, Clint Walsh
Photo credit: screenshot from Joel Arquillos
Shudder to Think returns! The post-harcore art rock band formed in the DC-area in the ‘80s before disbanding in 1998. While they’ve since regrouped occasionally over the years, their two shows this Saturday, March 15th at Los Angeles’ Permanent Records Roadhouse marked their first since 2013. The lineup featured Pony Express Record-era bandmates Craig Wedren on lead vocals, Nathan Larson on guitar, and Adam Wade on drums who were joined by Clint Walsh on guitar and Jherek Bischoff on bass.
The band delivered a set featuring many of their classic hits and they closed out the show with a new track, “Playback.” As Wedren noted to the exuberant audiences – which featured the likes of musicians Dave Grohl, James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins), Steven McDonald (Redd Kross), Anna Waronker (that dog.) and Josh Klinghoffer (RHCP, Pearl Jam); comedians and filmmakers Ken Marino, David Wain, Jonah Ray, the Sklar Brothers, Jesse Peretz (director), Lisa Cholodenko (director), Brad Simpson (producer); and many more – “We are Shudder to Think and we intend to do this more!”
See the set list below and watch their performance of Pony Express Record’s “Hit Liquor” from the opening show here: https://youtu.be/bU5yTovURAI.
Last year, the band celebrated the 30th anniversary of their groundbreaking 1994 album Pony Express Record – their first album on Epic Records, following several releases on Dischord Records. Pitchfork called the album “a nugget of operatic, sinister, and gleefully self-aware art punk” and “an album that pushed the boundaries of mid-1990s indie rock in new and exhilarating directions,” and Stereogum noted it as “a masterwork of alternate dimension progressive pop.”
By the late-90’s, Shudder to Think dove into the world of scoring films and creating music for soundtracks with the 1998 releases of Jesse Peretz’s First Love, Last Rites; Lisa Cholodenko’s High Art and the Todd Haynes epic, Velvet Goldmine. Wedren and Larson have gone on to be prolific film and television composers with Wedren working on YELLOWJACKETS, Wet Hot American Summer, The School Of Rock, Laurel Canyon and more; and Larson working on Our Idiot Brother, The Skeleton Twins, Juliet, Naked and High Fidelity (TV series), among others.
Washington Post recently noted that Shudder to Think is “a band forever rearranging the uncomplicated urgency of hardcore punk so that it could better accommodate the rococo wowee of its singer, Craig Wedren.”
SET LIST
“Hit Liquor”
“Gang Of $”
“Red House”
“Love Catastrophe”
“9 Fingers On You”
“Kissi Penny”
“Lies About The Sky”
“So Into You”
“Earthquakes Come Home”
“Pebbles”
“X-French Tee Shirt”
“Day Ditty”
“Playback”
Nathan Larson & Craig Wedren / Photo credit: IG via @davidbrianlee
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