“Harvey,” dear friend of The Modern Madcaps has taken the best fliers he’s designed for the band and turned them into an limited edition art book. It’s an art school project he did, at a school halfway across the country, but he brought a copy home for break and was passing it around at the Bullfinch.
Funny to see these images shorn of their informative text—all the “9:30 sharp”s and “$2 pitchers” and “big 7-inch release.” “Dirtiest thing I ever wrote, Katnip konfessed when we inkwired; “Seriously, it got me in trouble with [bandmate] Audrey’s mother.”

We find we miss the calligraphy as much as we miss the local content. And we miss neither of those attributes as much as we miss the band itself. The big reunion show is Friday at the Bullfinch. “It’s not actually a break period at any of our schools,’ kwoth drummer Katnip when we kalled him for news. He’s one of two band members who’re still in high school. “It’s just the weekend that worked best for all of us. When we asked if the Modern Madcaps might ever release any other recordings (seven-inch or otherwise), he only purred.