Strike City
From Louisville Punk/Hardcore History
Description:
A dynamically apocolyptic band with huge amounts of short delay and clever crescendos. Powerfully and provokingly beautiful. They were usually pretty fucking dark and mind-bending. Unfairly compared to Slint and Rodan. Early on they covered "Prophesy Theme" by Brian Eno from the film Dune and later "Back in New York City" by Genesis from "the Lamb Lays Down on Broadway" album w/ Shelby McDowell III on vocals. A free CD recorded by Kevin Ratterman was given away at the door of their last Show. RIP. -Aron Conaway
Band Members:
- Mark Campbell: drums
- Matthew Gardiner: bass
- Tyler Trotter: guitar/synth/samples/vibes
- Michael Oerther: guitar
- Shawn Trail: mallets/drums/djembe/perc/pianet
Other members include:
- Jon Smith: drums
- Patrick Luebbers: sample guru
- Pete Petersen: piano
- Aron Conaway: Occasional Visual Stimuli & Graphic Design
Influences:
Pink Floyd, Philip Glass, Brian Eno, Steve Reich, King Crimson, This Heat, Cheer-Accident, CAN
Played shows with:
- Arch
- Scaramongo
- Tyrone
- Seluah
- Parlour
- Your Black Star
- The Children
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
- Last House on the Left
- the Swords Project
- Entertainment
- Lynx
- Fin Fang Foom
- Mono
- Mercury Program
- Cheer-Accident
- and others