Les Savy Fav
POST PUNK
Saturday, 7/12/08, 8 pm
Outdoors at the Nasher Museum of Art
$10 • $5 Duke employees
Duke students and children 12 & under are free
(Limit two tickets per Duke student/employee ID)
In 1995 a quartet of kids attending RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) formed Les Savy Fav. The band has, in the intervening 13 years, become an icon of post punk – they are celebrated for outrageous hyper-kinetic shows and what The New York Times describes as “up-beat, jaunty rock, deliberately curdled with dissonant guitar lines, and critiques of capitalism.”
In 2007, after a six-year hiatus from recording, the band put out Let’s Stay Friends. The new album garnered high praise, a spate of sold-out big venue shows, dates at top festivals, and a slot on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. For their first area appearance in over four years, Les Savy Fav will perform outside at the Nasher Museum in what promises to be one of the more memorable music events of the summer.
Details for Les Savy Fav concert:
Please refrain from bringing food, drink (water bottles with a lid are permitted), and pets (seeing-eye dogs are permitted) into the venue. Smoking is prohibited. Drinks, including water, will be available for purchase.