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Sonny & The Sunsets with The Sandwitches / Summer Fiction

Presented by North Star Bar at North Star Bar

July 27, 2011

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SONNY & THE SUNSETS Sonny Smith began singing while a patient at Warm Springs Foundation Hospital in Texas, to amuse the other patients. Quasi-mystical with a tendency to write about new-agey subjects such as hypnotherapy, extrasensory perception, fortune tellers, palm readers and channelers Smith has been given his own genre by the press as ‘pop supernaturalism’. He was released from Warm Springs in the care of his brother and wife, Ryan Browne and Tahlia Harbour who soon became his backing band, Smith changed his name several times in this phase; Sonny Berger, Declan (Sonny) Burke, Sonny Smith and Dave Gil. He left the band after a week and moved to San Francisco where he quickly landed back in psychiatric care. It was there at the Canyon Manor Rehabilitation Center north of San Francisco that he met Kelley Stoltz who became the drummer and third and final sunset. Stoltz sent for the other two sunsets and they arrived in San Francisco a week later. On and off they lived out of a Browne’s Toyota van for the next three years. They embarked on a triple album in late 2009 but a hurricane hit the coastal studio they were recording in and most of the tapes were destroyed as well as their equipment. What’s left is Hit After Hit. They returned to Alaska, where Browne has a mother. http://www.sonnysmith.com/ THE SANDWITCHES SF trio of girls and guy, making shaky-sweet garage, surf, and country pop of a delightfully psychedelic vibe. "Their album How to Make Ambient Sadcake (released on local label Turnup Records) is a blend of thrift store vinyl sound and twangy lyrics which evoke a different time in San Francisco music history- at least a decade before these twenty-something's Facebook timeline began." --Bay Guardian http://www.myspace.com/thesandwitches SUMMER FICTION Summer Fiction is the new music project from Bill Ricchini. The self-titled debut album was recorded in Philadelphia studios, bedrooms, and church basements and features a cast of over 20 classical and rock musicians including a string quartet, horn section and members of Philly favorites Buried Beds, and BC Camplight. Sounds like: baroque pop, torch songs, freewheelin’ folk, and the golden days of missing you. Raised on a diet of: The Beach Boys, The Smiths, Simon and Garfunkel, The Zombies, Nilsson, Left Banke, Burt Bacharach, Veronica Spector, and South Philly bad girls. http://www.summerfiction.com/