Last Thursday, after splitting a bottle of Stone's 10th Anniversary Ale and helping ourselves to a little homebrew, DT and I pedaled over to the State Theater in Falls Church, where we met up with my girl to take in a show. The Easy Star All Stars, of Dub Side of the Moon fame, were performing their latest derivative masterpiece: Radiohead's OK Computer; re-imagined, of course, with a liberal splash of reggae. Dubbed (ha ha) Radiodread, the CD is about as fantastic and precise a piece of work as its predecessor and right up there with the original. 
And the show did not disappoint either, the songs sometimes transmogrified to such an extent that the only way to identify them quickly was to be familiar with the track sequence of the original (alas, they stopped short of the last two songs, "No Surprises" and "The Tourist"). Arguably the best performance of the night had to be an incongruously upbeat rendition of "Let Down" in which the music (replete with brass) and get-happy vocals belied the otherwise dismal lyrics of the original track. We even got to down a couple glasses of D(r)ead Guy Ale while we took it all in. Well, without further ado, some pix, in no particular order...
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