April 24 – On This Day!

1995: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Golden West Saloon, Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
w/ Pork Torta and Sweet Pants

Poster Artwork: Psychic Sparkplug

1997: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Vienna Arena, Vienna, Austria

1999: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Bowlie Weekender, Camber Sands, UK

“The hot rock has arrived. Despite the intensive drugs/alcohol/clean pjamas/pure evil door searches, true malevolence has slipped into this paradise, and it’s name is The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. After sightings of grown women carrying Hello Kitty handbags and a ‘boy’ clutching a teddy bear, these men are badly needed to deprogramme the masses. And it works – with every flutter of Spencer’s switchblade eyelashes, every twitch of his Lurex trousers, you can feel pleasant docility being melted and recast into something splendidly nasty. You just know Spencer (who surely believes chalets are for Aspen, sugar) would like to nuke this backwater bootcamp, and whether dispensing compulsory EST with ‘Afro’, rampaging dead-eyed through ‘Two Kinds Of Love’ or calling us “laydeez and gentlemen”, he treats us with thrilling contempt. And, hell, someone needed to.” – NME

2000: Boss Hog – Get It While You Wait – released in the UK

Cover Photo: Michael Halsband

2002: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Trocadero Theatre, Philadelphia, Pensylvania, US
w/ Speedball Baby

Poster Design (face): Print Mafia
Poster Design (hand): Large Mammal / Kevin Mercer
Poster Design (teeth): Jim Altieri

2005: Blues Explosion – Liverpool University, Liverpool, UK

2009: Heavy Trash – Futura FM, Región Metropolitana, Chile
2009: Heavy Trash – Teatro Novedades, Santiago, Chile
w/ Lilits and Jiminelson

Live Photos: Eduardo Figueroa Teuber
Álvaro Gómez (of Perrosky) and Matt Verta-Ray Photo: Yebo (https://www.flickr.com/photos/crunchyfrogdk/)
Thanks to Luis for the posters

2010: Heavy Trash – Sonic Boom Records, Toronto, ON, Canada

2010: Heavy Trash – Casbah Lounge, Hamilton, ON, Canada

2013: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Voxhall, Aarhus, Denmark
w/ The Railthin Brothers

Poster Artwork: Black Forest Industries

2015: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland, OH, US
w/ Danny And The Darleans

Photo (Jon): Rebecca E Yody (https://www.facebook.com/rebecca.e.yody)
Photo (Live): ‘samhell1369’
US Freedom Tour ’15 Poster: Malleus

2016: Russell Simins w/ Richard Edwards, Jill Weiss and Matt Hagan – State Street Pub, Indianapolis, IN, US
Pre-S-E-R-V-I-C-E gig