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2 I Thursday, March 6, 2003 | The Red & Black
iThe Red & Black’s guide to the week in entertainment
> 40 WATT CLUB (549-7871)
• Thursday: Trailer Bride/Clay Leverett and
The Chasers/Joseph Plunkett and The Weight.
More whiskey, shotgun shells and heartache
than your soul can handle.
• Friday: Comedian Chris Fowells/The Wau
Wau Sisters/DJ Cutt-A-Ftugg/The Big Nasty.
This is Val’s going away party and you’re all
invited. That includes Doc Eldridge, Bathrobe
Billy and the Tate preachers.
• Saturday: Godspeed You! Black Emperor/
Black Dice. “None more black.”
> ALLEN’S HAMBURGERS (548-8309)
• Thursday: Assfault. “Plowing through your
bean field. Poking your hay.”
• Saturday: Henry Porter Band
> ATHENS STEAM CO. PUB (549-7020)
• Saturday: Common Ground. Their sharp
staccato attack allowed them to reach...Jazz!
>- CALEDONIA (549-5577)
• Thursday: Rump Posse/Slackdaddy/Drivin’
‘N’ Cryin’ Cover Band. “If this was a room full
of mirrors, you’d all be walking on broken
glass!” The Posse = Asse-Rock for a new
millennium. Wear your gym shorts to this
one.
• Friday: Maserati/Tenderness/The Agenda. Is
it good or bad for an indie rock band to be
praised in Rolling Stone?
• Saturday: Heros Severum/Eyes to
Space/Silent Kids/Fairburn Royals. “Can we
still be friends even though I like Radio Head?”
> DT'S DOWN UNDER (543-9276)
•Thursday: Heidi Hensley Band/Wastegate. I
hope those bastards Erlichman, Mitchell and
Dean aren’t there. Oh, wait. That’s
Watergate.
• Friday: Gunnison/Fat Seth/Mike & Morgan.
Marlon Patton — Athens’ newest sex symbol.
• Saturday: Sean McConnell/McIvor Mann.
You’d think it’d be Irish music...but it's not.
It's...SWAMP BOOGIE! I’d also like to take this
moment to give a shout out to the hover-toilet.
> THE GEORGIA THEATRE (549-9918)
• Thursday: RAQ/John Brown's Body. Attack
RAQ? Why Not?
• Friday: Sound Tribe Sector Nine. Jammy
McJammerson rides again, brother. Attack
of the baggy pants kids. Duck and cover.
• Saturday: Smiling Assassins. Featuring
“J0J0” Herman of Widespread Panic, a man
who - no joke — was late for a show once
because he ran into Supermodel Fabio in a
bar and got lost in deep conversation. Also,
featuring members of Bloodkin. “Preacher in
my church told me, you better not — crazy
women.”
> ONE LOVE (369-6958)
• Thursday: Mike Willis. Not to be confused
with Frank Zappa vocalist Ike Willis, nor
Willis from Different Strokes. Bruce Willis is
right out. What you talkin’ bout Willis?
• Friday: “Breastfest Acoustic.” Benefit with
a rare acoustic performance by Widespread
Panic’s John Bell, Producer John Keane and
everyone’s favorite ex-Sprout, Tim Conley.t
• Saturday: ElemeN.O.P. Not featuring leg
endary Athens composer, Arfis “Chicken
Fingers” Spatata. Also not featuring Matty
“You Know I like Chicken” Compton on
percussion. Word to the mutha.
> TASTY WORLD (543-0797)
• Thursday: EleMeN.O.P/Tobias Story. This
organic hip-hop group's name also doubles
as a sobriety test for fans after the show.
• Friday: Weekend Excursion/Remember the
Ten/Divas on Wheels.
• Saturday: “Breastfest Finale 2003.” This is
a fund-raiser for a great cause. Featuring
Hope For a Golden Summer, The Sunny-
Side Up Band, Bain Mattox, Sara O’Brien
Band, Krush Girls and many others. Rhino
Five-represent!
—Steve LaBate
RYAN SIEVEKING
rsievekin@randb.com
The Wau-Wau Sisters can shimmy up trapezes,
don fishnet stockings, sing original ditties out of
key, act as costumed comedians and serve up dish
es to the audience — if originality were a crime,
they’d be a pair of crooning crooks.
The sisters, Adrienne Truscott and Tanya Gagne,
are a flashy duo from Brooklyn, N.Y., that strike up
mischief and mayhem everywhere they go. They’re
famous for circus antics and disrobing to some of this
century’s best and worst music.
In a nutshell, the high-flying sisters have ushered in
a revival of the vaudeville act.
“We’re half-sisters, and we actually grew up in sepa
rate houses until we were 13,” Truscott said. “We both
loved circus acrobatics, and we learned how to play
drums and the guitar. It started there.”
Truscott and Gagne have performed together since
1996 with circus troops such as the Bindlestiff Family
Cirkus.
After the sisters honed their skills, they set out to
devise an original comedy show. Supported by a mutual
love of writing humorous prose and playing the guitar,
they started touring together.
“We wanted to blend a silly aesthetic with tricks that
are difficult and take years to learn,” Truscott said.
Most recently, the sisters have toured the country with
post-punk electro band Le Tigre, the Butchies and Kiki and
Herb.
They’ve graced the stages of such famed New York City
haunts as “The Fez,” “The Mercury Lounge” and “The
Hammerstein Ballroom.”
This summer, the sisters were on the road promoting their
new CD, “A Little T & A Never Hurt Nobody.”
“We travel the country wearing different hats depending on
the gig,” Truscott said. “We write and sing our own songs. We
play rock and country, and we even
do a few striptease
acts.”
In addition, the
multi-talented siblings
make their own cos
tumes and props.
If that isn’t enough
to whet an appetite, the
sisters have another sur
prise in store — they
serve delectable appetizers
to the audience.
“We served Ritz crackers
and army slop on Memorial
Day one year,” Truscott said.
“We like to serve mashed potatoes for
Thanksgiving, and we’ve dressed up as Asian girls to serve fortune
cookies on Chinese New Year. The crowd reactions are tremendous.
The homespun talents of the Wau-Wau Sisters have been well
received by audiences everywhere. Truscott is, after all, a self-pro-
claimed jack of all trades.
“We know that people are hungry, so we want to accommodate
them,” she said.
Over the past year and a half, the sisters have built a steadily devot
ed fanbase, and their reputation continues to hinge on an aggressive
tour schedule.
The sisters keep audiences entertained with more than 50 routines
that they rotate in and out of their acts.
The antics of The Wau-Wau Sisters have captured the attention of the
New York Times, New York Magazine, The New York Post and Jane
; Magazine.
: “We had a weekly act in New York for two years performing at the
/ Williamsburg’s Galapagos,” Truscott said.
“We’re kind of goofy. Sometimes we’re country girls, sometimes we’re
death rockers — other times we’re 1940s synchronized swimmers. We play
dress up with whatever character strikes our fancy at the time.”
Truscott and Gagne are not new to the Athens scene.
“We came to Athens during our first tour, but there was a mix-up with the
student who booked our gig,” Truscott said. “When we arrived, we weren’t
even scheduled to perform.”
“Luckily, we met a local bartender who invited us to stay with him for a few
days. Before long, we snatched a gig at the 40 Watt. Athens is a welcoming and
friendly town full of wonderful people,” she said.
Truscott was raised in New Jersey while Gagne was brought up in New
Hampshire, but Truscott swears the Athens act will have a distinctively south
ern flair.
“We have a few surprises planned for the audience,” she said. “It should be a
hilarious act.”
Big on talent and tan lines, it is said that the infamous Wau-Wau Sisters can
mix martinis in a handstand while smoking Pall Malls and thinking impure
thoughts.
Here’s toasting to that.
University students have an opportunity to catch their performance in Athens
this weekend. The sisters are set to perform Friday along with comedian Chris
Fowles at the 40 Watt.
SPECIAL | The Red & Black
▲ The multi-talented Wau-
Wau sisters do everything
from comedy routines, acro
batics, musical acts and
even serve homemade
appetizers at their show.
duo's
command
over the large crowd is no surprise. They
are, after all, two scantily clad young ladies
crooning dirty songs. They are also, how
ever, highly skilled circus performers and
aerialists who unleash their lewd material
with great cheer and singular archness."
- The 'Voice
MOVIES
> BEECH WOOD (546-1011)
• Chicago (PG-13) 2 4:30, 7, 9:35 p.m. Pizza,
Ferris Bueller, The Cubs. Now an oscar
nominated film, too.
• Cradle 2 the Grave (R) 2:35, 4:50, 7:35,
9:55 p.m. 2 the grave - exactly where this
DMX film about a thug who steals black dia
monds is going.
• Daredevil (PG-13) 2:05, 4:35, 7:05,
9:35 p.m. Someone just told me Kevin
Smith’s in this movie - Dear God, not him, too.
• Final Destination 2 (R) 4:35, 9:45 p.m.
I wish the first one was the final destination.
• Gods and Generals (PG-13) 2:30,8 p.m.
I think what the south needs is a little bit
more emphasis on the Civil War.
• The Hours (PG-13) 2:30, 4:55, 7:30,
9:55 p.m. This film’s title refers exactly to what
it’s taking off of your life. Art and sleep - not
the same thing.
• How to Lose A Guy In 10 Days (PG-13)
2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 p.m.
Make him go see this movie with you.
• Jungle Book 2 (G) 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15 p.m.
• The Life of David Gale (R) 4:25, 9:25p.m.
• Old School (R) 1:10, 3:15, 5:20, 7:30,
9:40p.m. Earmuffs kid! Earmuffs!
• The Recruit (PG-13) 9:15 p.m.
> CARMIKE 12 (354-0584)
• Bringing Down the House (PG-13) 1:30,
4, 7:05, 9:25 p.m. Tell the Academy to start
shining up those Oscars.
• Chicago (PG-13) 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:40 p.m.
• Cradle 2 the Grave (R) 2:05, 4:35, 7:05,
9:25 p.m. (opens Fri.)
• Daredevil (PG-13) 2, 4:30, 7, 9:15p.m. (D)
Spelled backwards, the title’s “Live De Rad.”
• Final Destination 2 (R) 1:55, 4:15, 7:10,
9:20 p.m.
• Gods and Generals (PG-13) 2:15, 7:15 p.m.
• How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days (PG-13)
1:35, 4:10, 7, 9:35 p.m.
• Jungle Book 2 (G) 2:10, 4:05, 7:20,
9:10 p.m. I once saw a porn called ‘The Bare
Necessities.”
• The Life of David Gale (R) 1:30, 4:15, 7
9:40p.m.
• Old School (R) 2, 4:45, 7:20, 9:30 p.m.
Party with Snoop Dog and feast on the sight of
Will Ferrell’s bare ass!
• Tears of the Sun (R) 1:45,4:20,7:05,
9:45 p.m.
This is the best war movie to come out
since the last war movie!
• Shanghai Knights (PG-13) 1:50, 4:40,
7:15, 9:45 p.m. Does anybody miss Rumble
in the Bronx?
> GEORGIA SQUARE 5 (548-3426)
• Antwone Fisher (PG-13) 4:40, 7:10,
9:40 p.m.
• Drumline (PG-13) 4:35, 7:05, 9:35p.m.
How can anyone resist a teeny-bopper
movie about band nerds?
■ Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets (PG) 5:10,8:20p.m. I refuse to say
anything bad about “Harry Potter.”
• Just Married (PG-13) 4:15, 7:15, 9:20 p.m.
• Maid in Manhattan (PG-13) 4:30, 4:45,
7:10, 7:20, 9:30, 9:45 p.m. Conveniently
showing six times a day for all of you J-Lo
closet-fans. So cute I want to vomit. Only
slightly better than cop and waitress win the
lottery flick, “It Could Happen To You.”
> HIGHWAY 17 THEATRES (213-7693)
• Tears of the Sun (R) 7:00, 9:00 p.m.
Support your local drive-in theatre.
• How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (PG-13)
7:00, 9:00 p.m. Did I mention this was a
drive-in theatre? Try parking with your date,
but don’t make eyes at another guy’s best
girl. He might give yours the time.
> TATE STUDENT CENTER (542-5584)
• Thurs.: Titus (R) 3, 6, 9 p.m. Not starring
the cast of cult classic “Good Burger.”
• Fri.through Sun. Frida (R) 3, 6, 9 p.m.
Also not starring the cast of “Good Burger.”
• Tues.: Amelie 7:30 p.m.
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