Music will be in the air from 5 p.m. until midnight tomorrow at the Browning Amphitheater on the South Oval, next to Mirror Lake. That is where the Chi Phi Fall Music Festival will be going on.
A variety of local bands have volunteered to perform at the event. The scheduled line-up for the show is Poop House Reilly, the NSA. and Wigglepussy, Indiana.
Forming about a year ago, Poop House Reilly consists of Ian “Poop House” Hummel on vocals/rhythm guitar, Josh “The Professor” Tully on lead guitar, Fonz on bass and Jim “Stomp Winchester” Downing on drums. The band has since released their debut album “The Beloved Songs of Poop House” and is recording its second album tentatively called “No. 2.”
“The term usually used to describe us is hillbilly comedy funk rock – at least that’s what is says on my business card,” Hummel said.
“We make music for all the little children,” Hummel said. “Even though a lot of our songs have pretty awful swear words, we still have a message for the children that we need to love each other.”
Vocalist/guitarist William Companyman heads up the NSA along with Max Factor on lead guitar/backup vocals, Animal Fox on drums and Tzar Jackson on keyboard/backup vocals. The band released a 70 minute double album, “The Secret Sound of the NSA,” last year and hope to begin recording again in about six months.
“Our philosophy is that there are at least 30 weirdos in each town that want to hear us, and if you add all those people together, then that’s enough to keep us going,” explained Companyman.
“If I had to make some serious statement about why we’re still playing, it’s because at some point all the s**t music that’s going on right now has to die, and people will start listening to stuff that actually has some melody to it,” he said.
The feature band for the evening, Wigglepussy, Indiana, includes members Bill “Bango Drill” Jordon on vocals, Scott “Otis Baldrics M.D.” Lambridis on bass, Jason “Big Bloody” Craig on drums and Lawrence “Dez” Desilets on keyboard. Having formed only nine months ago, Wigglepussy has already released its first album, “Volatile Compositions,” and formed its own record label, Quan Productions.
“We’ve worked really hard on our album, practicing and playing at all hours, but the hardest thing to do is get exposure,” said Jordon.
“Our band has been classified as everything from angry jazz to avant-garde foe pop, but there (are) really no words to describe how we are when we play together,” Jordon added. “We all have a wonderful connection, and there’s no place where we’d rather be than playing music next to each other.”
This event is open to people of all ages and has been organized by the Chi Phi fraternity.
“We will be using this as a means of recruiting new members, however that is not our primary reason behind hosting this,” said Walter Holt, risk manager and recruiting manager for Chi Phi. “We also want to show that the fraternity system here at Ohio State no longer has the stereotypical ‘Animal House’ mentality by offering students a safe alternative form of weekend entertainment.”
