Turn Back The Triangle

If you were around in the 1980s and listened to local music then you already recognize the two names above.

The Pressure Boys defined a moment of the 80’s in which horns and guitars held hands. Members of the band ended up playing in the Squirrel Nut Zippers, Sex Police, Johnny Quest and others. Drummer Rob Ladd has played drums with all sorts of a-listers as a studio drummer. Alanis Morrisette’s “Jagged Little Pill” anyone? Don Henley’s band…

The Sneakers helped launched the careers of Chris Stamey and Mitch Easter — and thus much of what we know as Southern “college rock.” Easter produced early R.E.M. and led Let’s Active, Stamey led The dbs and produced a wide array of musicians from country to alternative.

Now the two are coming together (The Pressure Boys for the first time in 20 years) to play a one-off benefit show for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

John Plymale, who led The Pressure Boys and is today a respected producer, is behind the benefit as a part of his “Songs For Sixty-Five Roses” project. His 6-year-old daughter, Allie, has been diagnosed with the disease.

So both bands are bringing it all back together Friday, May 2, at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro. Show time is 9 p.m. and tickets are $16 in advance and $20 the day of the show. All proceeds will go to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

If you love local music and want to see where much of today’s local scene got it’s start, you have to go to this show.

You won’t be sorry.

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