Freak Dream with Jo Passed, Dreckig, and Andromeda Monk, tonight at Green Auto Body - an Elliot Langford interview

Elliot Langford doesn't perform that often these days. I interviewed him about Freak Dream once before, for the Georgia Straight, and saw him several times with the Rebel Spell (I never caught the SSRIs, but I have spun their album). Tonight, Freak Dream will be performing at Green Auto Body, in East Van, as part of a four band bill. also with Jo Passed, Dreckig (from Portland), and Andromeda Monk; having run into him at Trooperfest a couple of weeks ago, I checked in with Elliot to see what was what, for a brief email interview, which follows. Basically, everything below is Elliot! (He wrote it so there is no need for me to stick my questions in, which is fine with me!). 

Elliot: Freak Dream is going to be doing our second show as a trio, guitar bass and drums, and there's also backing tracks for some songs from a computer. We're just trying to get the wheels going again after a few slow years. Basically we put out an album and toured a bunch in 2018/2019 and then in 2020 COVID happened, and Ryan had a kid, and then I went back to school. So it's just been this year we've gotten back into playing. We are so far playing stuff from the album from 2018 and the EP from before that, we have been doing some writing but aren't ready to play anything new live yet. 

So playing at the show is also Jo Passed. It's the solo project/band of my friend Jo Hirabayashi, we have been friends since high school and played in a few bands together (SSRIs / Sprïng). He put out a record on Sub Pop a few years ago. I am actually going to be playing with his band that evening playing guitar and keys.

Then there's also Dreckig who are friends from Portland. Papi Fimbres is an amazing drummer and a friend we have known for years and Dreckig is one of his many bands - this band is a duo of him and his wife Shana.

And opening the show is Andromeda Monk who is a musician who has done a ton from playing saxophone to bass and lately she has been doing noise/ ambient music and is going to open the show.

Allan again: that's it! That's the show, tonight at Green Auto Body. Wasn't the album release gig for Last Run at an autobody shop - 333, or whatever? I wonder what this space will be like! 

Cool poster...