Brooklyn Blood: Zach Hill, Ganglians, Wavves tour gets violent, ugly in N.Y.?
Video courtesy Chocolate Bobka.
Here’s a little fun: Ganglians’ “Never Mind” from a tour stop in Brooklyn.
I hope they’re having fun and making a bit of cash. I haven’t spoken with anyone but I’ve heard two things: 1) they had a hard time getting into Canada but made it. 2) they had to get their own van/car and aren’t riding in the Wavvesmobile?
And then, of course, there’s this: Wavves’ Nathan Williams, who recorded the new Wavves album here in Sac with Zach Hill—it’s pretty good—says he got in a fight with Jared Swilley of Black Lips. Williams wrote on his blog:
“[W]hen some dude is just looking for a fight at 4 in the morning talking shit to my face and his girlfriend is spitting in the face of all my friends it’s a whole different story.”
Interestingly enough, Swilley has an entirely different take on the fight:
“I’ve never ‘come after’ [Williams], it wasn’t four a.m., that wasn’t my girlfriend, no one was spitting, and I didn’t attack him. I don’t give a shit about that kid and his music.
What happened was, after we finished our set I went to Daddy’s with some friends and saw that faggot from Wavves talking to a photographer friend of mine. The only thing I did was walk up to him and say ‘You’re that faggot from Wavves and I don’t like you’. He smiled a bit but didn’t say anything.
After that, I went outside and saw their tour manager hanging around with some guys. They started getting all chuckles with me and so I told them I wasn’t gonna have it. After that, Wavves tour manager hit me square in the face with a bottle. Blood started pouring out and six dudes fucking started kicking me until I blacked out.”
How lovely. Sounds like a rough tour. But I hear Wavves sells nearly “$2,000 in merch a night,” so Hill must at least be making some cash. And, honestly, I do really dig the new Hill/Williams Wavves songs.
UPDATE: I made this.
