The Rebel

Thursday February 21
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtime: 8 and 10:30pm
reservations are recommended


Photo credit: Benoît Grimalt

Rare NYC appearance by London's The Rebel by special invitation of Monkey Town and BAM's "Brooklyn Next" Festival.

The Rebel: often incorrectly described as a Country Teasers side-project, the reverse is actually the case: CT leader B.R. Wallers has been making music as The Rebel for over 20 years, it is his central-project.

"'THE REBEL' comes from the Tony Hancock film of the same name wherein a pathetic miser goes to Paris and ends up inheriting his flatmate's paintings, which he passes off as his own work, becoming the darling of the Paris scene. Finally he runs out of these inherited works and has to produce his own, with hilarious results. The Paris scene of course love these monstrosities equally. (Subtext : they look to the layman like Cubistic Picassos). This is my approach to making art, and indeed being alive in general. I don't want people to get the idea i'm Without A Cause or rebelling against Whatever You've Got."

-B.R. Wallers

http://www.therebel.co.uk/