Updated at 3:19 p.m., Monday, January 14, 2008
Indie rock kingpins Ween coming to Pipeline March 10
Advertiser Staff
Ween, a prototype band for oddball East Coast indie rock, is coming to Honolulu for a one-night-only concert scheduled for March 10 at Pipeline Café.Tickets go on sale Saturday.
The highly prolific group, which has released 22 albums since 1984, started out as a couple of eighth-grade buddies whose home recordings were influenced by every major musical act from The Beatles to the Butthole Surfers. Despite its garage-band status, the duo managed to build a large underground following and eventually took its eclectic sound public with a bigger band and a fistful of hits that, over the years, have retained the band's signature affinity for genre diversity, from comic rock to emo ballads to all-out head-smashing thrash rock.
There is no opening act for the Honolulu concert, but Ween is known for its hours-long sets.
Tickets are $28 ($50 VIP) and are available at the Blaisdell box office, Times supermarkets, online at www.ticketmaster.com or charge by phone at 877-750-4400.
