Beautiful harmonies from whoever that retro-nostalgia-oldie-tribute-cover-bygone band at Hamilton’s Tuesday. Until the singer fell off her tall shoes, into the drum platform. Next thing you knew, a mic stand was down. And this was a ballad! During one of the speedier old-school numbers, a whipping scarf nearly took down three bandmates.

So we took a quick Bullfinch survey of Worst Onstage Fashion Faux Pas:

Marsha of the Tisburys: “I wore my boyfriend’s baggy sweatshirt and got the mic caught in the sleeve.”
Myra and Rick of the Myricks: “Matched lederhosen. We were seven and six, in a church talent show. Does that count?” (Oh, yes.)
Lord Sand of Humarock: “I’m sure somebody’s had a problem with everything I’ve ever worn onstage. But for me the worst was splitting my pants at a College Nite. My friend Bobby tossed me a tablecloth, and I wore it like a skirt for the rest of the set.”
Plym and Hing of the Sippiwissetts: “We did the skinny tie thing for one show, but the other band on the bill was a skinny tie band too. We got in this tie fight, pulling each other’s ties. One kid in the other band turned blue.”
Johnny Hausnecki of the House Neck Band: “It doesn’t get worse than the platform shoes. I’ve been there with the platform shoes. Beware the platform shoes.”

Nan Tasket and the Blue Hulls, who’ve never gone in for that costume stuff, do two sets at Hamilton’s… Camp Ramsbottom, a kind of local band revue with a bunch of singer/songwriters backing each other up buddy-system style, at the Bullfinch… D’ollaire’s closed for two nights for reasons known only to God…