Wax Mannequin – The Red Brain

Sunday. August 25 @ The WHISKEY BARREL 8:00 pm

Visit: waxmannequin.bandcamp.com

Wax Mannequin is the stage name of Chris Adeney, a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter. His style has been described as “a hybrid of Bruce Cockburn and Frank Zappa”, “Tom Waits and Type O Negative jamming on the early Beatles catalogue”, and “Rheostatics via Savatage”. Carl Wilson of The Globe and Mail noted that “crowds are often baffled whether to be awed, irritated or amused by Wax’s all-rockets-flaring, un-Canadian-like extravagant performances.” (Wikipedia)

“The Obelisk” sees Adeney set the stage for the new record, which is said to be his most personal yet, detailing the singer-songwriter’s feelings of alienation through coping with neurodivergence. Driven by a rollicking, folksy guitar progression, he envisions himself as a monument to not merely surviving, but thriving in a world that you don’t quite feel as though you were made for. (Exclaim! magazine)

The music veers from scrappy folk and art punk to absurdist stadium metal, churning with dark humour. Beneath unsettling imagery and musical twists there is a steady questioning of life’s strangeness and his own neurodivergence. Wax has appeared on thousands of pub, gallery and festival stages worldwide. (Bandcamp)

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