Tue 2/4 @ 9PM
Bill Fox, who fronted the punk-inflected ’80s Cleveland power pop band The Mice, has become something of an international culture figure, in a genre whose fans tend to be fanatics and collectors. That reputation was abetted by a 2004 reissue on former Cleveland label Scat Records of the band’s two ’80s releases.
Since then, Fox has had an extremely sporadic solo career, releasing a pair of albums in the late ’90s before vanishing from the music scene for a decade. In the last few years, he’s been playing occasional gigs, such as this one at the Happy Dog.
There he’ll be joined by Ben Gmetro, a mainstay of the local music scene since the late ’90s when he was a key player in an informal circle of musicians who called themselves the Davenport Collective. He’s been part of poppy rock bands likethe Dreadful Yawns, Afternoon Naps, and now Extra Medium Pony.
Austin singer-songwriter Daniel Francis Doyle is also on the bill.
Admission is $5.