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Monotonix with Grown-Ups and DJ Sarah Ford
Broken City
Wednesday, January 20 - Wednesday, January 20

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Tel Aviv’s Monotonix is more than a band; it’s an experience. Once you’ve felt the rhythms of its live show and helped hoist the entire drum kit (drummer included) above the crowd in a wave of frenzied social harmony, you will forever be a part of the ecstasy that is Monotonix. Taking their cue from the title of the band’s 2009 Drag City release, Where Were You When It Happened?, these three Israelites have roamed from Sled Island to Spain, seen a million faces and garage-rocked ’em all. With all that travelling, Monotonix guitarist Yonatan Gat found it challenging to narrow down his Top 5 cities from the innumerable highlights of the past 12 months, but here’s his attempt.

New York: Such a crazy place. We must have had our best and worst shows in New York. Ami [Shalev, singer] broke two shoulders at two separate shows. Once he was attacked by a guy in a pizza place in Brooklyn after spilling beer in his girlfriend's cleavage. The other time he fell from a trash can at a bar called Trash Bar in Williamsburg.

Toronto: I like the people that come to our shows there; we've had amazing experiences. Ami was mooning the audience from a street sign outside the venue at one show, just as the cops were showing up. That show lasted for 20 minutes even before the cops came cuz the people in the audience totalled the rented gear we used.

Dublin: The Irish are the friendliest in the Isles, maybe competing with the Scots — Glasgow is great too. I like talking to people over there, because despite of the fact we come from completely different cultures it seems we have some in common because of the political situation in our countries in the last few decades.

New Orleans: Such a weird city, every show there is different. People can show up dressed up, we've had horn bands open the shows, and the weird, cursed vibes of that disaster-struck, unique place really make their way into the show.

Buffalo: We ended a show in Buffalo once and everyone went outside with the drums and Haggai started playing on the street and there was a little dance party outside. All of a sudden a brass band randomly passed by and started playing with us.