They had a little bit of a backlog (it’s a monthly series), so it took a few months to go up. But here it is, the last Jonx performance.

Scroll back to the beginning of the video to see an excellent performance by Tax the Wolf.

Setlist:
Everything Makes Me Happy
Parachute
These Days Are Miss
Diabetic Vet
I’m Getting Really Good At Tetris

You can also subscribe to a podcast of the series, or download a high-quality version of the episode from the Live From Sugarhill website, where you can also find performances from many of our good friends, including Motion Turns It On, the Energy, the Wild Moccasins, Tody Castillo (twice!), and Something Fierce.

Heartfelt thanks to Gina Miller, Chris Longwood, Dan Workman, Everett, the cameraman whose name I’m sorry to say escapes me, Jeremy Hart, everybody in Tax the Wolf, and especially Shawn Durrani for putting us in touch with Sugarhill.

TTFN

The final Jonx show will be Thursday, October 14 at Walter’s on Washington. Black Congress, one of our favorite local bands right now, will be opening. We’ll probably have another band too, but we don’t know who that will be yet.

We’re sorry that this is happening on such short notice, and that the final show will be on a weekday. We’ve never been a band that particularly had our shit together, and unfortunately it’s gotten quite a bit worse this year. I might add that I think we were a little bit in denial about whether this was actually going to happen, or at least I was. Many thanks to our excellent friends Roy Mata and Chris Ryan from Black Congress for helping us put this show together. If it hadn’t been for them, I don’t know that it would be happening at all.

The reason for all this is that Trey is moving out of state for personal and family reasons. If I may presume to speak for Stu and Trey, I think we all still really love playing in the band, and although we’re billing this as our last show, I wouldn’t rule out the idea that we’ll play a one-off sometime in the future- hell, the Mike Gunn managed it- but given the fact that I don’t live in Houston anymore either, it doesn’t seem very likely that we’ll all be in the same place again long for long enough to pull it off. So this really may be your last chance to see the Jonx.

It’s a sad thing when a band breaks up. We’ve “lost” a lot of friends in the last few years; most of the bands that we used to play with in our first couple of years aren’t around anymore. But look, it’s not like they’re dead or something. We’ll still be around, we just won’t be in a band together anymore. And I think that the three of us (and Shawn and Viki) feel pretty lucky to have had the opportunity to create together, to make some records and to play some shows with and for our friends. At least I do.

R.I.P. The Jonx
2003-2010

We’re very honored to be asked to help our good friends in 500 Megatons of Boogie celebrate a record release for the second time (of 2 total records). If you haven’t seen them before, here is some important information about 500 Megatons of Boogie, broken down for you into easy-to-digest bullet points.

• Big goofy guys
• Awesome punk rock
• Songs about crayons, plastic toys and blue-collar occupations
• James Brown covers
• Crazy-ass guitar playing
• Former members of the Squishees and the Slurpees
• Boogie, 500 Megatons’ worth
• Second record
• Rudyard’s
• Sloppy Joes
• Jaegerbombs
• Wet t-shirt contest
• Bachelor auction
• “500 Megatons of Boogie” can be abbreviated as “500 MTB” or “500 Megatons”
• Chris Ryan will NOT be there

I think that’s most of what you need to know in order to be prepared for the 500 Megatons portion of the show.

Opening the show is a band called Recreator.I had actually never heard of this band before I heard they were on the show, so I assumed they were new, but their myspace suggests that they’ve been together since 1992. Their music reminds me a little of the Birthday Party.

Their very short bio suggests that Recreator has former members of Immortal Skin Headdress, the Love Pumps and Dragster, but I don’t know if those are even real bands.

I really don’t know much about this band, so I don’t think bullet points are the way to go here. Why don’t we turn to another perennial blogging crutch, Youtube:

OK. . . I’m actually kind of excited to see this band now. Hear a number of their songs at Reverbnation.