
Truth & Memory: Live And Unleashed At Arlene Grocery Nyc
From the "Jeff Buckley International Newsletter's" Review of this Live Show.
The Fenwicks: Live and Unleashed at Arlene Grocery, New York City- 6/12/02 by Diane Rea
How many men does it take to form an "Afro-Celtic Yiddish Ska" band? The answer surprisingly is far fewer than the number of people that were packed into Arlene Grocery on Wednesday night (yes, a weeknight!) I arrived just in time to grab a beer and the best six-inch square piece of floor that I could find before the return of New York's long lost, but recently reunited Fenwicks. And in case you missed the lead, yes, they are an Afro-Celtic Yiddish Ska band. (Only in New York/Jacksonville/Jersey City/Israel...)
One of the most popular live acts in the city, The Fenwicks broke up in 1996, but luckily they don't seem to have lost any of the fun or fervor that made them so appealing in the interim. The nine-piece group hardly needed introduction or announcement as they took the stage to the opening chords of "Back in Black" (hey, it takes balls t