SISTER SOMEONE
Gunther Murphy's
International Pop Overthrow Performance
April 24, 2003
Photos by Niva Bringas / Review by Anita
Lande
What is International Pop Overthrow? IPO originated in
California five years ago, and it has taken off in New York, as well as
hitting the Chicago area for its second year. During April 18th through
May 4th in Chicago, between 100 to 180 pop oriented bands, coming from all
parts of the world, will showcase their songs. To find out more, you can
visit: www.internationalpopoverthrow.com
Toronto based band pop-rockers Sister Someone took the
stage promptly at 7:30pm on April 24th, the first band of five that was
appearing that night at Gunther Murphy's bar on Belmont Ave. in Chicago.
The band describes their
sound "like Blondie dry-humping a willing Shirley Manson," which
after hearing the band seemed pretty accurate.
 A
tall, attractive and energetic lead singer/guitarist with blonde/red short
spiked hair fronts the band. Introducing herself as Mo, she
kicked off their five song set with "Little Bit Queer," a cut
off their new CD, "Can't Fake the Money Shot," available at
their website www.sistersomeone.com
Their CD is a solid effort and you have to love the
cover, where Mo has her butt planted squarely on a copy machine with her
leather pants pulled down and showing her thong undies. She is
making copies of her butt while her three band members review the
pictures. That image kind of give you an idea of the kind of
fun this band likes to have and that good time streak runs through their
live show as well.
Walking on stage with a very conservative looking pants
suit at first, Mo soon stripped off her long sleeve jacket to reveal
her own personalized Mo white t-shirt. Probably the tamest of the
bunch is lead guitarist/backing vocalist, Jol. Both sporting Billy
Idol-like hair are bassist, Dust, and drummer, Marty. The rhythmic
duo were both wearing the kind of thin ties which harken back to the
mid-80's "new wave" style clothing.
Strong moments in the show came when they rock out the
songs "Messed Up" and "16 Is Dying." Surprisingly
the band passed on playing one of their better songs, "To Be A
Girl," which is featured on a new Breast Cancer Awareness compilation
CD titled, "It's About Eve". To find out more about this benefit
CD, go to: www.itsabouteve.org
My only suggestion is that as Sister Someone begin
touring more heavily, they really need to learn to chat up their audience
more and share some insight into the music they create. Until
then, they are doing pretty well letting the music do the talkin'!
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