from top left: Lennon, Girls in a Coma, Lillix, and Brassy (Photo By Gary Miller)
Girlz Garage Tour
Stubb's, Nov. 1 Here's the good news, ladies: You don't have to be a skinny, big-titted Britney clone to be part of the Girlz Garage Tour. The bad news is that it doesn't really matter what you look like, because apparently, not many concertgoers are interested in attending gigs with "girlz" on the marquee. A spin-off of the Vans Warped Tour, this extension of the Ladies Lounge offered five (almost) all-girl acts 30 minutes to strut their stuff on All Saints Day to fewer than 50 people. On the bill were Girls in a Coma, Lennon, the Start, Lillix, and the best-known band of the evening, Brassy. Solo artist Lennon, a pierced, Manic Panic-hued chick with a Roland keyboard and a drummer wearing a "Bocephus" T-shirt, delivered some drama-queen piano tunes that were highly emotive, but lacked the depth of fellow piano chicks like Tori Amos or Fiona Apple. Canadian sister act Lillix delivered the goods with their ready-for-
The OC pink power pop, while Brassy was as funky as ever (damn, Muffin Spencer, nice gams). The most interesting band of the evening was the San Antonio-based trio Girls in a Coma, who kicked off the evening to a fairly bored crowd. The Smiths devotees offered some fairly straightforward, even sometimes tepid, pop-punk at the outset, but their closing number, a cover of Morrissey's "The Last of the Famous International Playboys," was devastatingly tight, Nina Diaz's sexy warble very nearly putting the Mopey One's own trill to shame. Very hot, and definitely worth checking out next time they're in town. Overall, though, the Girlz Garage Tour was a disappointment, as the sparsely attended show felt like a girlz ghetto, a sleepover no one wants to attend, rather than a celebration of women who rock.
