Greener Good is the environmentally friendly band from the farm that isn’t the farm that the Shaking Quakers hold church at. (Don’t knock farmland bands; they usually get to practice as loud and as late as they want. Plus they tend to be healthy and can play longer and harder).
The Greener Good pulled up for their Bullfinch show on bicycles with little weapons behind them. All their equipment was accounted for, and that included stand up bass and vibes. The GGs’d been told they didn’t need to bring mics or amps, but they told me they could’ve lugged them too if so needed.
That’s a bonus show you want to arrive early to see! (Or, in our case, still be drinking at the Bullfinch after a late lunch.) Everything was in crates padded with newspapers. Everything needed to be tuned. Everything had little nicks and scratches on it, including the musicians. Guitarist “kid kiwi”– who’s not Australian; kiwis are what he grew on the last farm he worked at—had ridden through some brambles and fretted that his pickup had been pricked.
The set went off without a hitch, and the band was even afforded a long encore by the other bands on the bill. Impressed with the lengths to which they’d gone to play for, uh, 20 people who were mostly there to see the other bands or just to drink.
Extra-effort bonuses aside, Greener good says it bikes to shows to make a point about how possible it is, not how difficult. But what would they do if they got a gig in wintertime, during a snowstorm?
“Oh, we’re not idiots,” they say. “We know we can’t bike anywhere.
“If it was gnarly out, we’d take the tractor.”

Retzer’s Elephant Nose, Rosy Dory and the charming duo Pacu &
Opah all at the Bullfinch… Bullfinch has three bands, while Hamilton’s has just one— Striped Mojarra, for multiple sets starting at 9 p.m…. Feel free to dig Pirillo and Sedimentology at D’ollaire’s, for a much lighter tariff than the club has generally been charging for indie fare of late…