photos by Zach Dilgard

Tom Tom Club played after Dan Deacon and before Devo at McCarren Pool last week. They were fun. The highlight for everyone seemed to be their hit "Genius of Love". The low point for me was a cover they did towards the end. I can't remember which song, but it was a popular song, and it made me think "wedding band" more than "this group contains two original Talking Heads members". Speaking of which, they also played "Take Me To The River", the Talking Heads song that is actually an Al Green song. Tom Tom Club's reggae frontman Mystic Bowie sang on that one. He has a great voice, and I wouldn't call that cover bad. It was actually okay, but it wasn't even close to as good (obviously) as it would have been had David Byrne been singing it with the same bass player and drummer. The show wasn't free, unless you happened to know someone who lived nearby with roof access. Check out "Take Me To The River" as it looked and sounded from very high up...

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Tickets are on sale for a June 27th Devo and Tom Tom Club show at the Bank of America Pavillion in Boston - a show that is possibly part of a still-unannounced tour that also includes a show at McCarren Pool in Brooklyn on Thursday June 26th (no ticket info yet).

Tom Tom Club are also playing Fairfield Theater Company in Fairfield, CT on June 17th and the Meltdown Festival in the UK on June 20th,

UPDATE: Devo are also playing Philly on June 29th.