Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s
Fri, March 19, 2010 - 10:30 pm
Advance Cost: $10
Edwards and Fry formed Margot in 2004, originally telling journalists that they had met in a pet store, but which they now admit is untrue. Now 24, Edwards had been writing songs since the age of 13. Eventually he began to play acoustic shows, but, due to strict Indiana liquor laws, had to wait outside the club until it was his turn to go on. Fry caught a few of those early shows. “I hadn’t heard anyone with a voice like his who could write songs like that,” he says of Edwards. The two became fast friends, bonding over a love of the Beatles and their shared musical ambitions. “Here was somebody who was going to take playing music seriously,” Edwards says of Fry. “Andy was one of the first people I met who felt the same about it that I did.” For the band, the result of their labors is Animal! — a genre-defying blend of lilting melodies, grinding guitars, sweeping strings, and frenetic percussive elements, topped off by Edwards’ expressive, yet often apprehensive croon. The songs, initially written by Edwards, swell into noisy mini pop-operas once filtered through Margot’s collectively skewed sensibility. “With eight people, there’s a lot of possibility for noise-making,” Fry observes.
Where:
4104 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224