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offbeat.comVoodoo Music Experience Happiness is seeing the Happy Talk Band bust “My Suicide” just past noon in the Bingo! Parlour, where they turned wrist-slashing into an arena rocker. -Best stage decor: The salvaged metal Bywater sign that backdropped the NooMoon stage. -Best participatory sport: Marching around the festival grounds while making a joyful noise with the gloriously ragtag Ratty Scurvics Band. HOW DO YOU VOODOO? Ratty Scurvics Singularity (Saturday, 5 p.m., Le Carnival, Dungeon): Ratty Scurvics may be a one-man band, but this demented organ grinder runs with a sideshow cast of thousands (well, dozens)—all of them decked in mad rags by the Mojo behind the scenes, Howlpop’s Mo Lappin. Last year it was red-pantied hula hoopers and the Ratty Scurvics Marching Band, a 24-piece menagerie clad in deconstructed evening wear infested with red metallic spiders. This year, Mo’s conjuring a Ratty “bone circus”: “bright yet dead yet alive yet jaded yet hopeful yet.” Good Guys (Sunday, 4 p.m., Le Carnival): Metal and lounge are strange bedfellows, but New Orleans’ Good Guys make it work. Their songs are full of obscure twists and sudden mood changes, so the jazz-inspired opening of “Work Release” gives way to densely distorted guitars before shifting to a smooth piano breakdown. Countless bands have done that before. The Good Guys’ trick? They make it power pop. |
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