Fantastic Negrito’s Xavier and Colfax have a lot in common. Both have a seedy past filled with drugs and crime. Both nearly died, and both the street and the artist just may just have been saved by music.
A crowd dressed in scally caps, punk rock T’s, boots, bracers, and the occasional kilt packed the floor of The Fillmore last week when the Dropkick Murphys brought their own brand of Irish drinking music to Denver. They opened up their set with “For Boston,” a cover of the Boston College fight song, as a quick tip of the hat to their hometown and all that it had been through recently with the Boston Marathon bombings and then we were off to the races as they played the hits, both old and new.
The day before Saint Patrick’s Day is what we Irish like to call Saint Practice day. It’s the day that we begin stretching our livers for the main event and judging by the sheer number of individuals in green and gold filling the floor of the Ogden, Denver must be 90% Irish. As G. Love spit out the verse “Leprechauns smoking that green shit down,” we all knew the Ogden was the place to be to ring in St. Patty’s Day proper.
Primus rocked The Ogden Theatre last week with an energetic, expertly played show that delivered countless classics and a whole set dedicated to the bands new record “Green Naugahyde.” While the new album has a funky dance party type of vibe to it, the crowd favorites were an expected blur of punk excess, head banging and fist pumping. It was Primus and there is no one like them.
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