Hundred Years War at the Record Bar

Hundred Years War, with Ladyfinger (NE) and Attack on Uranus

Wednesday, August 29

The Record Bar

Better than: Having piping-hot Velveeta ladled into your pants.

By Jason Harper

The fairly new and not seriously conceived but seriously awesome Hundred Years War reminds me of the spoken-word monologue Nick Cave bellows on the opening track of Grinderman. It’s called “Get It On,” and at the opening, Cave manically yells: I got to get up to get down and start all over again!/Head on down to the basement and shout!/Kick all those white mice and black dogs out!/Kick those black dogs and baboons out!/Kick those baboons and other motherfuckers out!/And get it on! Get it on! “It is a lament for the messianic rock ‘n roll hero,” Cave says on the Web site, “and begins, of course, with a statement of intent.”

Fucking. Sweet. (You won’t hear the statement-of-intent album version of “Get It On” on Grinderman’s MySpace, by the way. Go buy it.)

As Ashley Brown’s article (linked above) confirms, the intent of the members of Hundred Years War — all guys in their 30s who’ve been in and around bands in the midtown music core — was to form a riff-metal band for the hell of it and see how far they could infiltrate Jim Kilroy’s Metal Wars. What they’ve ended up with is a working, lumbering beast of a band that still doesn’t take itself too seriously but rocks the fuck out.

Chris Wagner is HYW’s badass bass player.