Undone by a toy pig- shaped pump- battery flashlight that couldn’t be turned off. Zanella (the pretensious band with an unreproduceable accent over the final “a”) needed a flute on a song, and had a chart made up by some college musician on the hill. The notes were in pencil, and too small and scritchy to read in dim light. So, a few minutes before the gig, band member Agafya rummaged through her purse and found a toy flashlight she’d been saving as a gift for one of her kids.
First they couldn’t figure out how to work it. Then they couldn’t clip it anywhere. Then they had to get a fan from the audience to hold it. Then it crapped out anyway. There’s no light in flutes. Greasy pigs are easier to handle.

Trice Rat Ops at the Bullfinch, with Toro and Saurus… a particularly weed-friendly strain of world rock at The Moas and Limn O’Scelis at Hamilton’s…Paludis at D’ollaire’s. Why?…