I was just expressing my appreciation for the Jesus and Mary Chain and how refreshing I found their albums, coming in the dark days of radio hair metal during the mid to late 80's. I recently heard some of those songs for the first time in a while and was struck all over again how good they are. Much like the Sonic Youth of the same time period, they made noise accessible and enjoyable. Via WREK I heard a lot of the unadulterated stuff back then and mostly couldn't take it. When it was married up with just enough pop sensibility ala "Just Like Honey" I was all over it. I only saw them one time in the 90's with Mazzy Star opening up and it was a good enough show but those albums are really where they were at.

I have a highly uncommercial band concept - a Jesus and Mary Chain tribute band. Maybe you could get a Skinny Puppy tribute band to open at your sparsely attended gigs in deranged venues.