The Creepy Jingles Heidi Gluck Lauren Lovell and the Midnight Spliffs
Doors at 6:30p Show at 7:00p $20
The Creepy Jingles
The Creepy Jingles are a Kansas City based, 4-piece rock and roll band that both honors and defies convention. Led by singer/songwriter Jocelyn Olivia Nixon, a transgender wordsmith who charms with razor wit and dazzles with her lyrical acrobatics. Nick Robertson on drums, Travis McKenzie on guitar, and Andrew Woody on bass guitar bring first class musicianship and creativity, helping Nixon paint the perfect picture of colors and sounds that don’t stay in the lines. Their new album, “Take Me at My Wordplay” is an eclectic blend of catchy Brit-Pop melodies that dance around the landscape of surf, NY garage rock, psychedelia and folk music. Paired up with lyrics centering on themes of identity, strained relationships, social media madness, meme magic, pandemic paranoia, paid off political pundits, backyard bullies and barking up the wrong tree. Everything and the kitchen sink or swim. No stoner left unturned.
Heidi Gluck - from her wikipedia page!
Heidi Lynne Gluck is a Canadian-American[1] singer-songwriter, based in Lawrence, Kansas. She is also a multi-instrumentalist solo artist, band member, producer, and studio musician. Gluck has released two solo LPs, "Migrate or Die" (2023),[2] "Pony Show" (2016)[3] and one EP, "The Only Girl in the Room" (2015),[4] as well as contributing to many other recordings. She has also been a member of several bands, including Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, The Roseline, The Pieces, The Only Children, 95 Sweetbird, and Some Girls.[1][5] She has appeared on recordings for numerous other artists, including Simrit, Lily & Madeleine, Carrie Newcomer, Gentleman Caller, and Tom Brosseau.
Lauren Lovelle
It’s in her blood. Born in Harvey County, Kansas, Lovelle remembers her first gig at four years old, singing “Your Cheatin’ Heart” by Hank Williams with her dad’s honky tonk band at American Legion Post 2. By age 10, she was fronting them through entire sets. Now leading her country band in Kansas City, the 25 year old musician showcases her uncompromising voice and songwriting, with long-destined debut EP, Other Dreams.
Lovelle conjures images of the endless, sprawling plains she grew up on, crawdad hunting in her hometown creek, and dim-lit dive bars filled with cowgirls spilling beer, spinning each other across the floor. Lovelle sings with buoyant vocal flips and an emotive drawl, as her lyrics trace the ancestral storyline that brought her here. Combining classic country with emotive indie rock sensibility, Lovelle’s raw storytelling is adorned with playful, poetic turns of phrase.