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IVH: The King Khan & BBQ Show [1]

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Date: 2022-10-20

The King Khan & BBQ Show (L-R: Mark "BBQ" Sultan, Arish "King" Khan)

Tonight’s selections from the King Khan and BBQ Show’s self-titled debut album. Originally hailing from Montreal, these two first played together in mid-90s garage punk band the Spaceshits. We saw Khan play in Memphis recently (BBQ had COVID and was quarantined). Khan gave it a with a couple members of Oblivians under the name King Khan and the Bolivians. Good set, fun night!



When you’re a two-man operation where one guy wears a turban and the other a fringed mini-skirt, you’re bound to here the word gimmick tossed around. But rather than feel offended by this potentially pejorative notion, Khan and BBQ seem to fully embrace it. The duo pumps out the kind of novelty music that made early rock & roll so much fun, the kind of stuff the Cramps originally found so ghoulish (before talking it one step too far) and Norton Records built its reputation on. To think about Invisible Girl too much would most certainly do it a disservice. Khan and BBQ are obviously not reinventing the wheel -- they’re just reveling in the eternal command of lock-up-your-daughters rock & roll. — Dusted Magazine



Love You So [2005]



The King Khan and BBQ Show is the same as other rock and roll acts, only different. They’re a duo, and the only instruments — both onstage and on record — are guitar, percussion and vocals. Sound familiar? Maybe you’re thinking of the Flat Duo Jets, Dexter Romweber’s band from the 80s. Or maybe the White Stripes. Or the Black Keys. Or if your hipster quotient is lower, maybe the best you can muster is a mental image of Local H. Not only does KK&BBQ sound unlike any of those acts, but they’re far more colorful. King Khan (he also goes by Black Snake; no word on his “real” name) is of East Indian descent; raised in Montréal, he built much of his reputation playing throughout Europe. He plays guitar and sings in a wild-man style that echoes Little Richard. King Khan is equally famous for his work fronting The Shrines, a 60s-garage-meets-James Brown revue that simply must be seen and heard to be believed. BBQ (pronounced “barbecue”, but born Mark Sultan) sings, and plays guitar and drums. Sometimes those drums are a kit; other times they’re mounted to his foot, like Dick Van Dyke in the opening scenes of Mary Poppins. He played drums in the underground sensation Les Sexareenos, toured solo for a while, and played with Khan in The Spaceshits (nice name…). The King Khan and BBQ Show offers a stripped-down version of these musicians’ vision. King Khan says that “We try to keep things really simple; we try not to bite off more than we can chew.” BBQ adds that “There’s a chemistry there. We’re on the same wavelength when it comes to music, so we can add both of our stuff in there and come up with something that’s got a magical feeling.” — Musoscribe



Waddlin' Around [2005]



The King Khan & BBQ Show broke up in 2010 after an epic shit-storm of a festival experience which involved Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, a flying rubber snake, tai chi, dancing Chinese girls, airborne guitars and the Blind Boys of Alabama, and ended with Arish A. Khan banned for life from the Sydney Opera House. I’m summarizing, obviously, but you should really read about the whole mess here; even if it’s not entirely true, and I’m reserving judgment, it is a fantastic story. This humiliating, long-playing catastrophe was enough to damage a multi-decade friendship between Khan AKA King Khan and Mark Sultan AKA BBQ, who had grown up together in Montreal’s punk underground and cut their musical teeth in a band called Spaceshits. They’d been cranking the early rock-soul-punk-garage mayhem as King Khan and the BBQ Show since the mid-aughts, releasing a self-titled debut in 2005, What’s for Dinner in 2006 and Invisible Girl in 2009. Dusted’s Nate Knaebel, back at the old site, called out this last LP for its “knuckle-headed hedonism … nicely complemented by great hooks.” Still, it’s all music, all performed with an almost cartoonish level of exuberance and energy, and it’s hard to pick nits on it, when it unspools with such reckless joy. It’s a gift, this record, not perfectly wrapped or specially inventive, but fun, god damn it, and one that we might not have gotten at all. Here’s to lots more flying snakes and angry venue security in Khan & BBQ’s future. — Dusted Magazine



Shake Real Low [2005]



How could you not have fun at a show like that?!?

WHO’S TALKING TO WHO?

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Jimmy Fallon: Miles Teller, Idina Menzel, Babyface featuring Baby Tate (R 9/28/22)

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Seth Meyers: Alan Cumming, Bobby Moynihan, Craig Reynolds (R 9/22/22)

James Corden: John Boyega, Sam Smith, Minnie Driver, Lior Suchard, Cat Burns (R 6/29/22)

The Daily Show: Tyler James Williams

SPOILER WARNING

A late night gathering for non serious palaver that does not speak of that night’s show. Posting a spoiler will get you brollywhacked. You don’t want that to happen to you. It's a fate worse than a fate worse than death.



One from BBQ’s post-Spaceshits band, Les Sexareenos. We saw these folks in Las Vegas around the time this was released. This might be the best “frat rock” song since Louie, Louie.



Les Sexareenos :: Everybody Sexareeno! [2000]



Lastly, one from BBQ’s second “one man band” album.



BBQ :: Out of Time [2005]



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