Here's a little mental exercise for the late afternoon: Close your eyes and picture your ultimate, fantasy-league rock band. Got it? OK, now disregard what you just brained up and listen to our perfect band. It is: Udo from Accept playing bass, Mama Kass on tams, the drummer from the Happy Mondays, Ricky Gervais doing some keyboard stuff, and David Kilgour from the Clean singing and playing guitar. Pretty good start, right? Now just to push things into fantasy overload, let's give Udo and Kass Down Syndrome,Ricky and Hamish both Aspergers, and the drummer another form of autism. OK, while we're tinkering, how about making the singer blind from birth but giving him perfect pitch, a deep-seated fascination with traffic lights, and the swagger of a younger, far better looking Noel Gallagher? Oh! And let's make the whole group Australian. There. Done. Absolutely perfect.Of course we are talking here about Rudely Interrupted, the band who played the Laneway Festival a few years ago and sold out shows around New York late last year. If you've never heard them before expect some extremely well-crafted music by a bunch of guys who happen to be saddled with slightly wonky sets of genes. We're not trying to cast aspersions on the luminaries of the "outsider" scene, just saying if you locked the entire lineup of Songs in the Key of Z in a room together, I doubt they would ever come up with a song about neck pimples that sounds like the Meat Puppets, or anything as mercilessly infectious as RI's "Don't Break My Heart."They play tonight at 9.00 at the East Brunswick Club and Saturday night at the Oxford Arts Factory. Check here for full details.To get you pepped, here's an interview we did with guitarists Rory and Rohan, before one of their shows, that rapidly turned into an interview of us.
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