Holy Fuck will be leading late-night dance party at Webster Hall (photo by twi-ny/ees)
Webster Hall
125 East Eleventh St. between Third & Fourth Aves.
Friday, October 2, $1-$25, 10:00
The Holy Fuck are four dudes from Toronto who play low-fi electronica-type dance music without electronics. Seriously. When we caught them a few years back at the Bowery Ballroom, they spent thirty-five minutes having a lot of fun — us too — opening for !!! Two goofy guys spent the set in front on homemade trestle tables, an ocarina, 35mm film sequencer, and some really cheesy keyboards — as in physically decrepit-looking items, not particularly Farfisa-sounding things. The two live musicians were a drum-beating moptop with an admirable Moe haircut and a hyperkinetic bald guy who wielded quite an ax. They weirdly suggest a little prog rock in their soaring keyboards, laid over and in between lots of twitchy dancing stuff and crazy beats working together and off each other, with intense guitar work on the side. It was like . . . Emerson, Lake, and Palmer at 90 BPM on Red Bull. And lots o’ it. On October 2, they’ll be headlining the weekly Girls & Boys all-night party at Webster Hall, with Autoerotique, resident DJs Alex English, Kids with Snakes, Gavin Royce, Rekles, and Trash! with DJ Jess & Alex Malfunction.