Shows/Mono Puff/1995-10-07
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Links:
- New York Daily News listing; Oct. 1, 1995
- New York Daily News listing; Oct. 6, 1995
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Mono Puff
— with Brian Dewan, Gordon Gano co-headlining —
Mercury Lounge in New York, NY
October 7, 1995 at 10:00 PM
Fan Recaps and Comments:
This show was Mono Puff's debut live performance and served as the primary reason for the band's formation. The show was part of a "Hello Showcase," featuring artists that had released music through the Hello Recording Club.[1] John Flansburgh had released his solo EP, John Flansburgh's Mono Puff, through Hello earlier in the year and he assembled a band to perform songs from that EP at this event. A 1998 press release detailed the show:
In 1995, Flansburgh mounted a showcase for Hello artists and put together a one-off Mono Puff line-up with drummer Steve Calhoon of Skeleton Key, Hal Cragin of Iggy Pop's band and Mike Viola of the Candy Butchers. That spectacular gig led to a record deal and the release of Unsupervised, in between TMBG projects, a year later.
Mono Puff's first album, Unsupervised, was recorded later the same month, over the course of one weekend. Flansburgh explained in a 1996 interview: "I had a bunch of songs that I had put out through the club that I had wanted to record in a more full-blown way. I got together a band to do the songs at a "Hello" showcase in NY, and recorded the bulk of the record [Unsupervised] a couple of weeks later." He elaborated in another 1996 interview:
I did a Hello revue last year in New York, so I put a band together on the spur of the moment and played these songs. It turned out a lot better than I had anticipated - I could pick from all the different musicians from the New York scene that I had met. It came together in a very casual way, and it just happened to work. It could have just been okay, and we wouldn't have made a record. But because the shows went so well, it kind of sparked everybody's enthusiasm to do a record, in as spontaneous a way as the band had come together.
John Linnell also performed a short solo set of his State Songs at this Hello Showcase.
