The Big Nose Attack live in Athens January 2012

While saving up for the upcoming Bruce Springsteen tour in 2012 I only attended one gig by an international artist in the first half of that year and that was the one by Mark Lanegan. However, I had been to two gigs by Greek artists during the same period and the first one was by The Big Nose Attack. Having just come back from their European Big Noise tour they organized a free gig at Tribe Bar, to celebrate the release of their first CD, which was available to buy at the venue for only 5 Euros. They played their own songs from their new album, some of which were inspired by their personal experiences (mainly in Santorini) but they also played a few covers (even Frank Zappa ones)

 

    

Let's just note that apart from the guitar (which was good but old and needed frequent tuning) and the drums, we were fascinated by the electric ukalele and were astonished when we realized that the "utensil" that most of us have in our kitchen to whisk the cream among other uses, can also produce music! As we can see from the setlist, they had also prepared some... tequila for the encore, but when they finished their second to last song, music from the bar's sound system started playing. They didn't go out with a bang. They went out with a twang!