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Ceremony, White Lung, Perfect Pussy & Sleepies played a wild show at NYU's E&L Auditorium (pics)

photos by Amanda Hatfield, words by Andrew Sacher

Ceremony / White Lung @ NYU – 12/5/13
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Before NYU heads into finals week, they threw a semester-end show last night (that was also open to the public) in the Kimmel Center’s E&L Auditorium with four killer punk bands — Ceremony, White Lung, Perfect Pussy, and Sleepies. The tidy and spacious auditorium may not have been everyone’s ideal way of seeing this show that sounds like it’d happen in a dingy DIY space, but what’s more punk than putting on a cheap show in a school?

Brooklyn’s Sleepies kicked things off with the tamest set of the night, but still a rippin’ one that saw them going through tracks off their 2012 Weird Wild World LP that The Men’s Ben Greenberg produced, and from the way they play you can tell why a member of The Men would work with them.

Up next was Perfect Pussy, fresh off their signing to Captured Tracks, which was announced earlier that day. There’s been a lot of talk about Perfect Pussy lately, thanks in part to their solid EP, but their live show is really where it’s at. Singer Meredith Graves is a total force and an entertaining performer, and though when someone with that level of charisma fronts a band the attention can be entirely on her, with Perfect Pussy that’s not the case. The whole band goes nuts, even the dude whose job it is to make noise with his electronics, and they are LOUD. Don’t miss out on seeing this band if you can help it.

They were followed by White Lung, who were joined by Wax Idols singer Hether Fortune on bass, like they were at Fun Fun Fun Fest and the rest of their tour. As always, White Lung put on a great show, and they used their last live appearance of 2013 to showcase some of their new material, including the stuff on their recent single. From the sound of that and the other new material they played last night, a new album from this band is much anticipated.

Once powerviolence, now garage punk band Ceremony wrapped up the show, and as always, the place went nuts for them with moshers and stage divers taking over the whole front half of the venue.

Pictures of all four bands are in this post. They continue below…

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White Lung’s Mish Way hanging w/ Perfect Pussy’s Meredith Graves (via Mish’s instagram)
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