Byron and Jana’s after Wedding blowout featuring Hickoids, The Beaumonts, and Hard Luck Revival

Rudyard’s presents Byron and Jana’s after Wedding blowout featuring Hickoids, The Beaumonts, and Hard Luck Revival

Hickoids (Austin, TX)
http://www.hickoids.com/

Hell, let’s just cut to the chase right at the outset. The Hickoids defy easy and neat description, or even messy description, though “messy” was often applied to the band’s members and their shamelessly uninhibited punk rock run for the wilted Texas yellow roses from 1985 through ‘92 — one of the mildest descriptions, in fact. The tags hung around their scrawny and unruly necks like name and number slates in arrest photos include but are hardly limited to cowpunk, white thrash, glambilly, hard-corn, psychobilly, hick rock, acidbilly and out on bail. All in a way apply, but none and even the sum of those terms do these magnificent musical reprobates full justice.

To truly “get” The Hickoids as they were in their original wild, wooly and damned loud and raucously ragged magnificence, combine tequila with beer chasers (not the other way around), psychedelic shrooms, demon musical seeds spewed by The Sex Pistols, The Ramones and Iggy & The Stooges, honky-tonk and “Hee Haw,” hay bales scattered in the air, power chords and toxic twang galore, battered cowboy hats and tattered thrift store dresses, and their Austin hometown in all its late ‘80s cheap rent/booze/pot/living slacker splendor. That’ll give ya a bracing taste of what was and now, nearly 20 years after they sputtered to a halt, returns anew. Or simply mix the notions “Texas” and “punk rock,” multiply that to the Nth exponential, and shake vigorously. Voila! Hickoids.

 â€œApart from maybe the Groovy Rednecks or Hank III, there aren’t any country-rock performers around these days who live it up recklessly and raucously with the same boozy, profane attitude and hell-raisin’ abandon as the Hickoids,” notes L.A. Weekl

“The delightfully lewd, crude and lascivious Hickoids have returned from the corn crib of oblivion,” declares Blurt. So lock up your wives and daughters as well as your liquor and medicine cabinets, batten down the hatches, and happily beware. The corn is again popping, roasting and brewing in the still as The Hickoids return to criminally mischievous action. After fomenting a musical revolution from the dung of punk rock and country, they’re back to rule the roost like the proverbial wolves in the henhouse of contemporary music.

Beaumonts (Lubbock, Tx)
http://www.thebeaumontstx.com/

There’s something about Lubbock. Something other than the oppressive blue sky, the unavoidable cloud of shit-smell that occasionally engulfs the city, the flat, featureless landscape, or the preponderance of teen pregnancy, boredom, alcoholism, and God. There’s music. Yes, indeed there is. The Hub City has spawned music like you wouldn’t believe. Music loved by folks the world over. Even the real “King of Rock and Roll” came from Lubbock, and if you believe that (which you’d be a damn fool not to), then it ain’t too much of a stretch to believe Lubbock is also home to the greatest country band that ever existed. That band is THE BEAUMONTS.

It wasn’t too long ago that four of Lubbock’s most loved veteran musicians decided the state of Texas country music was dismal at best, and horrifying at its worst. Somehow, over the last twenty years, it became acceptable for a group of frat-boys to show up in thrift-store AC/DC shirts, play half-ass Lynyrd Skynyrd tunes about drinking Lone Star and smoking weed, and call that “country.” Well, good friends, THE BEAUMONTS didn’t think that was “all that damn country” and decided to do something about it. What resulted was a juggernaut of essence, the trooest of troo cvntry, something akin to the creation of the universe, but with Telecasters. Behold, good friends, and delight in the majesty of THE BEAUMONTS!

Hard Luck Revival (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/hardluckrevival

Hard Luck Revival is an alternative country band from Houston, Texas.
Mike Porterfield – lead vox, guitar;
Johnson Sutherland – lead guitar, vox;
Marty Starns – fiddle, mandolin, harp;
Steve Scholtes – bass guitar;
Charlie San Miguel – drums