Boston Rock Photos And Stuff
A few years ago I saw Neon Angel do a set as The Runaways at Radio. This year, the Girls Rock Campaign Boston fundraiser at O’Brien’s brought back a couple of familiar faces for more Runaways fun. Queens Of Noise ripped it up.
Hilken Mancini, Alison Murray and Carolyn Castellano joined forces for Chris Toppin’s Birthday Bash. After a heartfelt dedication, the trio gave a refreshingly self-aware-yet-completely-unironic performance of “Wonderwall.”
Honeysuckle Rose found birthday guest of honor Chris Toppin and friends* doing an Anita O’Day inspired send-up of, you guessed it, “Honeysuckle Rose.”
* These friends also included Phil Aiken, who I didn’t get any shots of. The night was moving pretty quickly at this point. I can tell you he looked something like this.
The Artful Dodgers (Josh Buckley, Jim Healey, Amy Griffin, Luke Sullivan and Carolyn Castellano) made it look easy. It may have been One Night Band. They may have only had a few hours to write some songs. They may have never played together before, but they remembered one thing. It’s only rock n’ roll. I like it.
