Happy Holidays from New Rock Church of Fire
Last spring, we interviewed New Rock Church of Fire for a Three Stars piece, and they revealed to us their deepest desire as a band: to play the Black Cat. Well, Santa apparently reads DCist, because tonight the Alexandria natives are getting their wish. Tonight they'll play the Cat's main stage with Velvet, Mas y Mas and Hammer No More The Fingers. Originally slated as a CD release show for NRCOF, it'll be more of a... T-shirt release party. After a few attempts to record the album on their own, the guys have decided to hand it over to professionals in the near year.
"We like what we recorded, but due to lack of experience it wasn't sounding just right. We decided to release a few songs ourselves and save a proper release for a much higher quality recording," bassist Mitchell West said.
Now, back to that whole, Santa reads DCist thing. Given that wishes published on these pages seem to come true, we thought we'd ask the bands what else they're hoping for. So, after the jump, we give to you, the Christmas Wish Lists of tonight's Black Cat lineup (most of it, at least).
All NRCOF Wants for Christmas
- A turducken
- Our own personal American Gladiators set
- A cloud
- Some quality time with the wife and kids
- A rascal scooter on dubs
- A daschund with reeeeallly long legs
- Popeyes
- Neil Diamond farewell tour tickets
- Muscles
- A malt liquor named after us
- Deuce Bigalow Three
- The ability to love
- Wings and/ or a tail
- A time machine
Mas y Mas
We have been compiling this list all year. Please listen very closely. Come closer. We have been waiting so very long to make our innermost desires known to you.
1) Fun Printed Hoodies
2) Sweet Sweater Dresses for Chill Days
3) Surf Chic Bags
4) Multi-Feature Keyboard Phones
5) UGG Australia Fashion Boots
6) Juicy Couture Bracelets
7) A Videocassette or DVD of "Georgia Rule"
8) Anything Bratz
9) Microsoft Zune For Her
10) A Charitable Gift: Cocaine for 70 Children.
For just $12.00 this gift offers 70 children a good-sized bump at a drop-in center giving them an incentive to access education and health services provided. This gift will help to change the lives of some of Cambodia's most vulnerable children as well as making them much more garrelous dancers.
If you opt to get us #10, please also throw in 4 tickets to Cambodia and a map.
What Hammer No More the Fingers wants for XMas
First, and most importantly, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Technodrome, complete with command post, Krang's lab, turtle jail, and detachable eyeball. It would only be fair to include Krang, Brain, Shredder, Bee-Bop, and Rock-Steady action figures with the fortress of fiends. An all-out Christmas day battle most certainly wouldn't be possible without the Ninja Turtle Sewer Playset. Oh the fun we will have Christmas day if our dream-list comes true.
Merry Christmas,
HNMTF
New Rock Church of Fire plays the Black Cat tonight. $10, 9 p.m.
Photo by Morgan Hungerford