The Gooch Palms at the Triple Rock, Minneapolis (28 Sep 2016)

Gooch Palms Setlist

Living Room Bop
Eat Up Ya Beans
The Slide
Invisible Man
GPBNO
Sleep Disorder
Tiny Insight
You
Don’t Look Me Up
Hunter Street Mall
Trackside Daze

Tour Dates

10/01 Toronto, ON Silver Dollar
10/04 Brooklyn, NY Baby’s Alright
10/07 Baltimore, MD Windup Space
10/08 Columbus, OH Ace of Cups
10/12 St Augustine, FL Shanghai Nobby’s
10/13 New Orleans, LA Siberia
10/14 Houston, TX Walter’s Downtown
10/15 Austin, TX Hotel Vegas
10/20 Phoenix, AZ Valley Bar
10/21 Las Vegas, NV Bunkhouse

The Gooch Palms is currently on tour in support of their new album Introverted Extroverts (Summer Camp Records). The Australian duo (Leroy Macqueen and Kat Friend) stopped by the Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis last Wednesday, September 28th.

Opening up the show was Tights (not to be confused with UK band The Tights), a local band that they originally wanted to be called “Hoes” but the singer’s mom didn’t like the sleazy name. The band came on stage slightly after 9pm and, thus, started a late, late show for a school night.

I don’t think they’re online at all, but I recognized the bassist Shannon Boyer from Royal Brat. I’m pretty sure the other girls are also in other bands… As we previously written, “Minneapolis is swarming with incestuous (creative) relationships.”

Since we couldn’t find their music online, they started their set with a song about ‘Breakfast’, and followed by songs about drinking and birth control.

Next up was The Controversial New Skinny Pill (guitarist Skyler, drummer Alana, bassist Dan and synthy Mariel), a hippy-ish weird psych band. Funny enough, Skyler confessed in the middle of their set that he actually ripped his pants doing a dance move on stage.

The ‘Skinny Pill ended their set with a cover of Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s ‘Taking Care of Business’.

All-girls local trio The Black Widows (drummer Lady Tobalyas, bassist Pamela Laizure, and guitarist Corinne Caouette) closed out the show. The band’s self-titled cassette release is on Wiener Records, a subsidiary of Burger Records.

The band mostly played songs from their self-titled, such as ‘Big Daddy’, but they actually started their show with a brand new song called ‘Mummy Momma’, a Halloween song that they’ve written for their Halloween show “Black Widows’ Greatest Night Ever 3: Halloween Extravaganza!” (complete with Go-Go Dancers) on October 29th at Grumpy’s. Unfortunately, they only played the instrumental version, as they are saving the lyrical debut at the upcoming spooktacular show.

The Gooch Palms’s best-smell setlist ever was at the Triple Rock Social Club show. Apparently the duo wrote their set on their takeout box.

The Gooch Palms are generally known for their over-the-top (and sometime Leroy would play in the buff) shows, but they seemed relatively “in check” at this show. As you can see from their smelly set, they mostly played songs from Introverted Extroverts, including GPBNO (“Gooch Palms Big Night Out”), ‘Sleep Disorder’ and ‘Living Room Bop’.

Late in their set, they explained that where Newcastle, Australia, is at (approximately three hours north of Sydney), and that they’ve never thought they’d be halfway around the world to play in dive bars across North America. They explained that they used to hang out at the ‘Hunter Street Mall’, watching the “smackies, d***heads, the honeys”.

The Gooch Palms continues their Introverted Extroverts Tour.