The dreidel will rock
We may be teetering on the cusp of Christmas - and more than a week past the final night of Chanukah - but that hasn’t stopped a couple of New York clubs from planning a virtual Jew-a-palooza this weekend. Two satiric bands, Good for the Jews and Jewmongous, will headline the Highline Ballroom and the Cutting Room, respectively. The former had the religious sensitivity to book its show for Sunday.
Jewmongous risks the wrath of God by working on the Sabbath (Friday night, with shows Saturday night as well). And working a bit blue, no less. The acts have gotten lots of attention of late for anointing their songs with titles like “They Tried to Kill Us (We Survived, Let’s Eat),” “Just Too Jew for You” and “My Pact With Satan.” One wonders: Do some folks miss the joke? “There’s usually one Jew who gets very angry,” says Rob Tannenbaum of GFTJ.
“I refer to that as ‘Jew-on-Jew violence.’” “My song ‘Christian Baby Blood’ does make people nervous,” allows Sean Altman of Jewmongous. “My mom always thinks someone is going to shoot me when I sing that song. I tell her the chances of a crazed evangelical Christian being in my audience is slim.” Then again, Tannenbaum says his band did draw its first neo-Nazi protester the other night. “It’s like [seeing] the Great Wall of China,” he says.
“I’d heard they exist but had never seen one with my own eyes. Of course, it is pretty disturbing to come face to face with someone who wishes that more than 6 million of your people were dead.” Not that he’s representative of the general response to these acts. Both have completed successful national tours. “We sold out Seattle with 270 people the other night,” Tannenbaum reports.
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