If you wanted to hear obscene folk rock on a Sunday night, then Marquee Theatre was the place to be.
AMIGO THE DEVIL brought their “Yours Until the Tour is Over" tour to Tempe with the help of solo act SUZANNE SANTO and TK & THE HOLY KNOW-NOTHINGS on Sunday the December 2nd.
Alone and dimly lit, SUZANNE SANTO, the former member of Americana duo HONEYHONEY, came onto the stage with nothing but herself and her cherry Eastman Les Paul. The rust belt native indulged in themes of heartbreak, isolation, and rebuilding in songs from her 2021 album “Yard Sale,” which detailed the emotional roller coaster of purging old belongings and embracing a new tomorrow. Last time she was in Arizona she performed at Valley Bar while she was eight months pregnant. In the middle of describing her experience being a mother, someone from the audience shouts about terrible twos, prompting laughter from her and others in the crowd. She leaves the crowd with some holiday spirit ending with her version of “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.”
Self-proclaimed “psychedelic doom boogie” quintet TK & THE HOLY KNOW-NOTHINGS were next to take the stage, and this is what I imagine playing in my head while I'm on a cross-country road trip, going through the midwest, and stopping at every Buc-ee’s I see. Lead singer TAYLOR KINGMAN played his set on his worn Roebuck guitar that he claims he got for 20 bucks. The slow jams progressively evolved into guitar solos, which then turned into guitars rubbing against each other enthusiastically.
Has anyone told DANNY KIRANOS that he looks like JACK BLACK if he was THE ROCK’s cousin and wrote “Banjo Kazooie” music? If I saw him at a bingo hall, I would pass that along to him. Though if the song “Murder At The Bingo Hall” is anything to go by, he would likely not be welcomed there. KIRANOS decided to let the audience hear the original version of the song right after, sounding much less sinister and more innocent, and something you hear at the corner of a dive bar. After the song, an audience member hands KIRANOS a fan letter, and he promises them he’ll read it later before he and his crew get right to playing “It’s All Gone” and "Cannibal Within.” In the midst of that they teased “South of Heaven" by SLAYER right before KIRANOS tells a tale about “Crying At The Orgy.”
KIRANOS asks the audience to participate in singing the next song by leading them with the lyrics of “All-Star" by SMASHMOUTH at first, with the audience gleefully and without skipping a single beat, finishing the entire song in perfect harmony.
KIRANOS would then tell the fans that he was testing them, and that they all failed. He then proceeded to mansplain the meaning of the song “I Hope Your Husband Dies.”
Multiple times throughout the night the crowd begged AMIGO THE DEVIL to come to Tucson, and also demanded a banjo solo. The latter was easier to fulfill for AMIGO THE DEVIL, so DANIEL MASON obliged their request. Towards the end of the show, people began to crowdsurf despite the tone not setting up anything that would prompt headbanging, or anything fast, heavy, or intense, so these fans were very dedicated. Their dedication was out in full force during the closing song “Hell And You,” which the audience was way more in-sync than when they were singing SMASHMOUTH.
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