Minnie, the fetching tambourinist for the TroJams, was a little out of her head Sunday at Hamilton’s and seemed to vainly announce from the stage that a beauty contest would forthwith be held, and the contestants would be herself, Junie Jumper of He-Ven and the Venus half of the duo Venus Penis.
Minnie insists she was misunderstood. She’d been at a wedding that afternoon, heard a stirring rendition of “For the Fairest,” and was in fact inviting the other two women (whom she insists she “worships”) onstage to sing along. But her improvisatory intro created dischord instead of harmony. Someone threw an apple. Rambunctious members of the crowd started catcalling their votes for fairest. Whatever the next song was going to be was ruined. And none of the women—who’d all been at that same wedding, that very afternoon—are speaking to each other. Some scenesters are prophesying a power struggle that could alter the territorial club universe as we know it. Some think that it will blow over like the guitar solo from “Sea Nymph.”
We’re inclined to believe Minnie. In the TroJams, she’s known as “the smart one,” the one who’s had the most to do with the band’s increasing regional fame. In any case, this battle is not over.

Tonight: George Streetsign at the Bullfinch, solo acoustic… The String Sillies at Hamilton’s. It’s a private bash for the classical music department at the college on the hill, but it shouldn’t be hard to crash… The Crimes of England and Utopia of Usurers arrive at D’ollaire’s on their “How to Help Annexation” tour. Best booking that club has had ever. Almost worth the high ticket price…