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The Greep Show Takes The Stage

Indie darling breaks up with his band and heads to Bushwick

The Greep Show Takes The Stage

The Greep Show Takes The Stage

Indie darling breaks up with his band and heads to Bushwick

The Greep Show Takes The Stage

Perhaps it would be entered into the modern indy rock canon, when Geordie Greep, the celebrated London guitarist with the strangely pitched accent of a no longer existing european principality split from his band Black Midi, on the feels of a trio of increasingly sophisticated, largely successful releases, the last of which was named “a masterpiece” by no less than the Jon Pareles of the New York Times. Perhaps not. “​You ​do ​a ​band ​for ​a ​little ​bit, ​do ​it ​for ​three ​years, ​have ​a ​great ​vibe, ​and ​then ​finish. Nothing’s ​meant ​to ​go ​on ​forever ​and ​ever,” Greep was telling NME about this, some months after he announced his involvement in a new band called Geordie Greep And The Swing Boys, which made their live debut in a small club in Brixton, which he described as the beginning of a “new sound,” which a blogger at Stregogum would describe as “an oft-shifting junkyard pile of ideas.”

Some months later, he decided to take these ideas to New York, with an entirely new band composed of “local virtuosos” who were going to deliver “the American variety of…

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