Ron House
DJ Vinnie Martini
Friday, November 7
8:30pm
Ergot Records
$10 at the door
Three years ago, we hosted Columbus legend Ron House for a solo performance at the shop, and November 7th we’re doing it again.
Ron is perhaps best known as the frontman for Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, whose incendiary 1995 debut Bait and Switch was one of just seven albums released by Johan Kugelberg’s American Recordings subsidiary Onion Records. As a member of Great Plains, Counter Intuits, Psandwich, and—with Jim Shepard—Ego Summit, he’s living proof that Ohio has always been punk rock’s fertile crescent. For 40 years, Ron’s inebriated, primordial snarl has provided literate urgency to visions of an underground populated by negative guest lists, philosopher queens, loser record collectors, baffling interscene couplings, and bars where anything is possible. Yet even at his snottiest, Ron’s infectious bravado and sardonic wit belie a poignant tenderness especially potent in the solo, acoustic mode we’re lucky to have in store for us.
Ron is pictured above (left) beside Tom Lax (center) of Siltbreeze Records, who issued Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments’ Negative Guest List EP, and DJ Vinnie Martini (right), who will be returning to the 1s and 2s for this occasion.