The Tweetle Beetles won the battle of the bands at that new club on the turnpike, the Puddle. A tribute act! And look who lost: downtown college town icons like The Blats (Blits, Blots, Bloats, whatever), The Model Marvels and a brand new band which we’re so excited about we won’t even mention who they are in case it sullies their nascent reputation to have lost their first band battle to some noodle-eating poodles. Wahhhhhh!, we cry… Or rather, “wha…?” We roll our eyes with incredulous wonder.
We’ve never been a fan of the competitive music process. It’s one thing to say like one band better then other, another still to gauge them by appreciable standards. But to shunt them into a popularity contest without even the usual weaponry of sashes and fancy gowns! No wonder the wig- wearers won.

At the Bullfinch for the Sunday high school mosh pit: Our Game is Done, Chicks With Bricks and Sue’s Clothes, plus a zillion other kiddie bands yet to be announced (because they probably haven’t formed yet)… Blues cover act Slow Joe Crow at Hamilton’s, which expects oldsters from some college alumni gathering to turn up… The salacious song parodies of Is Your Tongue Numb? returns to D’ollaires for No Date Nite, which has now become a regular monthly stag party at the venue…