Their Myspace head­line is “If someone says they play with us, they do!”, a ref­er­ence to the list of thirty-odd musi­cians that take the stage and/or record at vari­ous times with the music­al col­lect­ive known as Wil­lard Grant Con­spir­acy. The loose group revolves around song­writer Robert Fish­er, who sounds a little like Nick Cave, a little like Johnny Cash singing Leonard Cohen, and a lot like a good time; with a strong folk vein run­ning through the some­times-rockin’, often-orches­tral arrange­ments and accom­pani­ment that bring to mind Cave-affil­i­ated instru­ment­al­ists the Dirty Three (listen to Ghost of the Girl in the Well and you’ll see what I mean).

Fish­er is gra­cing us with a vis­it as the solo incarn­a­tion of Wil­lard Grant next Wed­nes­day, Octo­ber 1st, at the San Fran Bath­house – and before that Island Bay crab comes out of his shell again to call ves­ted interest, I declare my bias, my band The Wrong­do­ings are proud to come out of quasi-retire­ment to play sup­port at this gig. We’re very excited!

Tick­ets from Slow­boat Records on Cuba St, or online at Under The Radar. Check out pro­moter Gales­bur­g’s list of upcom­ing gigs for a bit of sun­shine too – I’ll be post­ing more about them soon.