Laura Jane Grace has performed at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, the site of a bizarre press conference from the Trump campaign in the days after last yearâs US presidential election.
The Against Me! musician played a 16-song set at the Philadelphia location yesterday (August 21) ahead of shows at the cityâs more traditional venue Kung Fu Neck Tie.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, around 200 people attended the show for which tickets sold out in 17 minutes. The gig took place in the car park, just as the press conference given by Trumpâs lawyer Rudy Giuliani had.
âIâve played Giants Stadium. Iâve played Wembley. Sang on stage with Cyndi Lauper. Written songs with Weezer. Been on stage with Joan Jett. None of that compares to this,â Grace reportedly said on stage. âIâm 40 years old and I can draw a bigger crowd than Rudy, and I have more Twitter followers than [Donald Trump], which isnât [so bad] for a transgender high school dropout.â
Rudy goes crowd surfing. pic.twitter.com/IAYVsRZlFd
— Stephanie Farr (@FarFarrAway) August 21, 2021
Even Rudolph Giuliani crowdsurfs to Black Me Out (@LauraJaneGrace) pic.twitter.com/YQ7tJIrvR2
— existential bread
(@lochnesscheska) August 21, 2021
Concertgoers also sent a life-sized cardboard cut-out of Giuliani crowd-surfing over the audience as Grace dedicated songs like âOsama bin Laden as the Crucified Christâ to âthe death of fascists, alwaysâ.
âItâs been fun both imagining how this is all going to play out and then also just like imagining Four Seasons as a company, thinking about the strife and the drama that must go on internally,â Grace added of the showâs unusual venue. âThereâs probably like the one side of the company, or the friends of the company, who are like, âYou all lost your way, man! You used to be about cutting grass.ââ
Four Seasons Total Landscaping’s owners have said that Grace’s show was “one and done” despite receiving numerous requests from other artists to hold gigs at the business. Watch footage from her gig above now.
In April, Grace released a new video for the track âSupernatural Possessionâ, which featured on her 2020 surprise solo album âStay Aliveâ. âI just want to put this out because it makes me feel alive and itâs giving me something better than sitting here losing my mind while the world falls apart,â she said of that record at the time.
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