Kung Fu @ Sullivan Hall, February 3
Words and Images: Nick Irving
This past Friday, Connecticut rockers and jam legends in their own rights, Kung Fu, headlined a marathon six-hour, five-band bill at Sullivan Hall in New York City’s West Village. The homecoming was the icing on the cake of a week-long excursion through Colorado labeled “Occupy Colorado” that ended in a blizzard-riddled headlining show at Boulder’s Fox Theatre. Though they had just flown into NYC a few hours earlier, the band took the stage with the energetic authority fans have come to expect.
[All Photos by Nick Irving]
Playing to a packed house, Kung Fu delivered an improv and cover-heavy set that included numbers from Jeff Beck, Jimmy Herring and Van Halen, among others. One of the more interesting aspects of the evening was the ins- and- outs of the crowds for the four opening bands. Sophistafunk, Banooba, Easy Over and Stereopticon all had their own clearly present fanbases, and none sounded anything like the other. In a very fresh, high energy evening, time flew for Kung Fu in the most positive of ways.
Set: You Know What I Mean *, The Hammer, S’all Good, Scapegoat Blues @, God Made Me Funky +, Rocks %, Drop Dead Legs $, Bringing Up The Rear, Stratus €, Gung Ho
Encore: Paragon
* Jeff Beck
@ Jimmy Herring
+ The Headhunters
% Brecker Brothers
$ Van Halen
€ Billy Cobham[via Kung Fu Facebook]
Kung-Fu returns to the stage this coming Friday and Saturday night at Sugarloaf Ski Resort in Carrabassett Valley, Maine. Here’s a full gallery of photos from Sullivan Hall…
