Andy Frasco & The U.N. and Cool Cool Cool rounded out their two-week tour on Friday and Saturday with a two-night blowout at Brooklyn, NY’s Brooklyn Bowl.
The two acts proved to be a perfect pairing throughout their joint run. Cool Cool Cool, comprised of seven former members of Turkuaz, would set fans up each night with their long-steeping onstage chemistry and abundance of versatile talent, and Frasco and his band of jam scene pirates would knock them down, flooring fans both new and old with the their patented brand of just-barely-on-the-rails pandemonium and extensive rolodex of notable friends.
The various members of Cool Cool Cool cycled in with The U.N. throughout the weekend at Brooklyn Bowl, as did Karina Rykman, and rapper Jarv, and Little Stranger-adjacent MC Damn Skippy, and Andy’s childhood best friend, and a bachelor party for a friend of Pigeons Playing Ping Pong frontman Greg Ormont, and on, and on. Lewd jokes mixed freely with profanity-laced life advice and shock-value stage antics as band members switched instruments, took flight from the top of Andy’s motorized, rising organ platform (complete with internal purple lights and smoke machine), or dove into the audience to crowd-surf, do-si-do, or do a defiant Horah.
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On Saturday, in a moment of genuine sincerity, Frasco spoke about his own mortality, laying out how he would want his life to be celebrated if he were to meet an untimely end (i.e. “I need you to party down. I need you to show my mom what nitrous is, ladies and gentlemen. Give her a fat-ass balloon. Just say, ‘This is from Andy, he wants you to do this.’ She’ll be like [in a lowered voice] ‘Hell yeah’”). Elsewhere in the show, in a moment of somewhat less genuine sincerity, Cool Cool Cool’s Sammi Garett began her sit-in on a cover of No Doubt‘s “Spiderwebs” by saying a few words about how wonderful this tour had been. She presented Frasco with a wrapped gift—a gift that wound up being a Smirnoff Ice, which he dutifully chugged.
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That’s the joy of a Frasco show—the joy of being there, of enjoying the moment, of not taking yourself too seriously even when seriousness is well within your skill set. It’s about having fun, loving life, and feeling good (Jameson hangovers notwithstanding), and two nights’ worth of Brooklyn Bowl crowds had emphatically checked those boxes by the time they filtered out into the Williamsburg streets.
Check out photos from Andy Frasco & The U.N. and Cool Cool Cool’s tour-closing run at Brooklyn Bowl below via Ken Spielman, Em Walis, and Chris Capaci. For a list of upcoming Cool Cool Cool tour dates, head here. For a list of upcoming Andy Frasco & The U.N. tour dates, head here.
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