FMH Presents
MAN ON MAN
w/ Joe Stopsign
Tickets: ADV $17 • DOS $20
Doors 7pm
21+
MAN ON MAN
MAN ON MAN, Provincetown (Polyvinyl, 2023)
You remember your pandemic project, don’t you? Maybe it was baking bread, cultivating a garden, or finally committing to Proust? But for Roddy Bottum and Joey Holman—back then, a new couple of longtime musicians, en route from New York City to California to care for Roddy’s ailing mother—it was writing songs, meant only to entertain themselves in those suddenly idle days. Joey, after all, had his guitar in the car; during the road trip west, they ordered a microphone, waiting for them in California where they’d live and work from a cozy beachside A-frame. They got to work but, really, to play, shaping a dynamic string of new-love songs about tender infatuation, the ache of all-consuming lust, and the excitement of a full future, together. “It’s so fun,” they cooed in content unison, “to be gay,” their own birds-and-bees ode to joy. Those songs stuck around, accreting not only into an album but into the band MAN ON MAN, lauded by Rolling Stone and loved for music videos that documented the real romance of two fully grown gay men. That pandemic project? Suddenly, a little hit.
JOE STOPSIGN
Joe Stopsign is the solo recording project of Steve Beres. Loud body horror inflected electroclash from Providence by way of Central PA. Sounds like dancing while hitting yourself in the head with a big hammer, being both the fly and the flyswatter, being a truck rolling across the highway. FFO: Peaches, B52s, Ween, Pet Shop Boys, Tobacco