New fall club shows: Beady Eye, Wombats, Megafaun, Girls

The Noel Gallagher-less Oasis offshoot is scheduled to make its local debut Dec. 5 at First Ave.

July 14, 2011 at 2:40PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Liam Gallagher, right, is scheduled to land with Beady Eye at First Ave on Dec. 5.
Liam Gallagher, right, is scheduled to land with Beady Eye at First Ave on Dec. 5. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The fall club tours are starting to come together, and several noteworthy shows are already going on sale this weekend:

Beady Eye -- a k a Oasis without the bigger-jerk Gallager brother (Noel) -- has included a Dec. 5 gig at First Avenue on its first full U.S. tour. I'd say it's about a 40-60 chance a gig that far off will happen. Tickets (an Oasis-sized $39.50) go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Also at First Ave, San Francisco's great acidic garage-rock band Girls will graduate from the Entry to the main room on Oct. 1 ($15), while Evan Dando's revamped Lemonheads return to the Entry to play "It's A Shame About Ray" in its entirety on Oct. 22.

The Cedar Cultural Center will welcome the return of Megafaun on Sept. 30 ($15). The Varisty Theater landed a couple of big new buzz bands: Japanese wackos Boris on Oct. 17 ($15) and Liverpudlian trio the Wombats on Nov. 7 ($15). At least based on how incessantly the Current has been playing the Wombats' limp single, "Techno Fan," that show could wind up being something like the similarly heavily rotated Mumford & Sons debut gig at the Varsity last year.

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Chris Riemenschneider

Critic / Reporter

Chris Riemenschneider has been covering the Twin Cities music scene since 2001, long enough for Prince to shout him out during "Play That Funky Music (White Boy)." The St. Paul native authored the book "First Avenue: Minnesota's Mainroom" and previously worked as a music critic at the Austin American-Statesman in Texas.

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