At the Drive-In and Le Butcherettes provided the equivalent of audio TNT Thursday night at the Fillmore Auditorium. Denver born vocalist and front-woman of Le Butcherettes, Teri Gender Bender, provided the perfect amount of berserk energy to rally a raucous crowd in preparation for a team of dynamos.
Le Butcherettes conquered early and often with an enigmatic stage presence of the Denver-born vocalist. Bender sashayed from side to side often whipping her neck in a fashion that looked painful. In the process, the commanding artist managed to pull off a successful wardrobe change going from military attire dress to cocktail dress faster than her high-stepping high heels on “I’m Getting Sick of You.”
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At the Drive-In are campaigning around behind the of “in•ter a•li•a.” The fourth album from the El Paso rockers is their first in seventeen years. The absence of longtime band member Jim Ward didn’t prove to be an unscalable hurdle. Cedric Bixler-Zavala still bounces all over the place with the prowess of a jungle cat in heat. The lead singer lowered his guard tremendously since his days as leader of prog rockers, the Mars Volta. Despite technical difficulties, the behemoths of bravado kept up a high intensity throughout their show starting with opener, “No Wolf Like the Present.” It wasn’t until “Invalid Litter Department” that the crowd fully captured the long-lost magic of the once defunct saviors of the southwest.
Tour Dates
6/21/17 — Cleveland, OH — Agora Theatre
6/22-25/17 — Montebello, Canada — Amnesia Rockfest 2017
8/15-17/17 — St. Pölten, Austria — FM4 Frequency Festival 2017
8/16-19/17 — Paredes De Coura, Portugal — Paredes De Coura Festival 2017
8/16-19/17 — Kiewit, Belgium — Pukkelpop Festival 2017
8/18-20/17 — Biddinghuizen, Netherlands — Lowlands Festival 2017
8/23/17 — Munich, Germany — Zenith
8/25/17 — Paris, France — Rock En Seine 2017
8/26/17 — Reading, UK — Reading Festival 2017
8/27/17 — Leeds, UK — Leeds Festival 2017
9/28/17— Melbourne, Australia — Festival Hall
9/29/17 — Sydney, Australia — Hordern Pavilion
10/2/17 — Brisane, Australia — Eatons Hill Hotel & Function Centre
