Sun 10/24 @ 6PM
The Cleveland band Death on a Stick was a project of a group of local WRUW-FM 91.1 college radio hosts and their friends, formed in 1985. They describe their initial foray as “a collective of musical noise-merchants and fun seeking exhibitionists.” They released a four-song cassette (this was the ’80s!) and got themselves some notice in small music magazines because hey, college radio DJs are plugged into that sort of thing and managed to play some fairly significant gigs with stars of the experimental/noise/underground music scene.
The band’s career sputtered out after the ’80s as the members all went on with their lives. Marky Ray has become one of the area’s busiest concert crew people and teaches behind-the-scenes tech skills to the next generation of crew members at Tri-C while still performing from time to time. Tina Lefauve wisely moved to Chicago and continues to perform in nontraditional settings there. John Spuzzillo moved to New Orleans where e continued to work as a musician; he recently moved back to Cleveland. And Andrew Klimek, whose roots go back to Cleveland’s ’70s underground scene, played with Electric Ells leader John Morton’s reformed X_Blank_X for many years.
Now they’ve reassembled for a one-time show at the Beachland Tavern. Admission is $10.