If you have never seen a band that blends Dublin street poetry with Irish traditional music and lands in South Burlington, Vermont on a Wednesday night in the middle of a five-country world tour, here is your invitation.
Bricknasty — the Ballymun flats collective fronted by Fatboy, with Korey on drums and Cillian on production — is bringing the BLACKS LAW TOUR USA to Higher Ground‘s Showcase Lounge on Wednesday, July 1. Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8:00 PM. All ages.
The band is riding hard on Black’s Law, a nine-track mixtape released last October via FAMM and the project that earned them Notion magazine’s “ones to watch” designation. The record is dense and deliberate — hip-hop that pulls in jazz and traditional Irish folk, dealing head-on with faith, addiction, and political disillusionment. The title is a nod to Black’s Law Dictionary, the kind of legal language Fatboy treats as a system worth pulling apart. This is not background music.
Bricknasty have been building their reputation the hard way: a Glastonbury debut, shared stages with Coldplay at Croke Park, Nas, Ezra Collective, and André 3000, and a billing as a fierce live act from people who have watched them do it. They are a trio now — Fatboy, Korey, and Cillian — tighter after a lineup change, and the North American run they are on is not a soft tour. Electric Forest, Toronto, here, Cambridge, DC, Connecticut, Ohio. South Burlington is not a stopover. It is the middle of a circuit that trusts North Country rooms with real shows.
The Showcase Lounge at Higher Ground holds 750 — big enough to feel like an event, close enough that you will not miss a thing. Get there by doors.
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