Famed Libertyville Rocker Ike Reilly December 28 Performs Holiday Show at Mickey Finn's Brewery; Township Food Pantry to Collect Items From Fans
LIBERTYVILLE - Indie rock raconteur and singer-songwriter Ike Reilly (along with his band, The Assassination) on Monday, December 28, will perform his second show this year at Mickey Finn's Brewery in Reilly's hometown of Libertyville.
Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door, which opens at 6:00 p.m. The show starts at 8:00 p.m. Tickets may be purchased at Mickey Finn's Brewery, 345 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Libertyville, or by visiting http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2469402
Libertyville Township Food Pantry will be on site to collect items from fans as they arrive; preferred items include canned food, paper products, diapers, and personal care items.
After playing the "biggest show in rock 'n' roll history" this summer in Libertyville, Reilly and the band is returning for another all-ages show tied to a food drive for the Libertyville Township Food Pantry. Reilly has been on tour in support of his critically acclaimed album, Born On Fire, since it was released earlier this year on Rock Ridge Music/Firebrand Records. Opening for Reilly will be Church of Cash.
"I was really surprised at how fast we sold out this summer and I thought if we could do it again it would be great to do something for people right around here who needed help," says Reilly.
The Libertyville Township Food Pantry has over 60 families a week that use the pantry and over 335 families registered this year. All the families are residents of Libertyville Township.
Libertyville Township Supervisor Kathleen O'Connor said: "We are incredibly grateful that Ike is using this show as an opportunity to raise awareness of the needs in our community and the efforts of the Food Pantry - sometimes poverty is subtle but it exists. His show is a beautiful example of neighbors helping neighbors and the positive impact we can have on the lives of others." O'Connor also revealed that right now her favorite Reilly song is "Do The Death Slide." "I absolutely love the harmonica and guitar in 'Do The Death Slide,'" O'Connor said.
"Reilly's show this summer was totally epic," said Mickey Finn's Brewery's owner, Brian Grano. "It was all-ages, and we had kids as young as 10 years old mixing it up with adults, teens, college kids, and even a table of octogenarians. It was an incredible performance and an incredible vibe of unbridled rock and community. I can't believe it's gonna' go down again so soon. I hope everybody who missed it this summer gets to come in this time."
David Carr from the New York Times said: "Ike Reilly is a kind of natural resource, mined from the bedrock of music. All the values that make rock important to people-storytelling, melody, rage, laughter-are part and parcel of every Ike Reilly show I have ever seen. One of the best touring acts in the country, Reilly's band takes it as a personal challenge to upend and amaze every room they play in."
Press praise has been extensive over the years. Chicago Magazine praised Reilly's "outlandish storytelling, underdog combativeness, and slapstick humor," Cincinnati City Beat lauded his "scuffed and noir-ish tales of modern life. ...fusing dirty R&B grooves into his swaggering Pop/Roots sound... Ike Reilly's most amazing accomplishment over the past decade is that every new album is his best ever and yet the new one in no way ever diminishes the greatness of his existing catalog." Stereo Subversion called Reilly a "genre-bending journeyman" and a "rough-around-the-edges Americana troubadour." And The Big Takeover appreciated Reilly's "wordy but focused storytelling in his lyrics, his rock & roll sneer and his rough-edged folk rock sound."
Minneapolis City Pages said, "Equal parts punk rocker, poet, and blue-collar barfly, Reilly's stories are as bizarre and filthy and honest and pure as the people who come out to his shows. His songs reach out and grab people, shake them by the collars, make them jump up and down." Chicago Tribune admired that Ike "merges his affinity for folk-punk narrative and anthemic guitar chords with hip-hop's vocal cadences and rhythmic drive." Philadelphia Inquirer enjoyed his "street-poet swagger, audacious humor, and industrial-strength hooks." PopMatters.com called him "the best songwriter in America… Hilarious, unsettling, raw… but mostly just rocking." USA Today hailed Reilly as "never less than original… ferociously intelligent… always worth listening to." And Los Angeles Times described Reilly's music as "…barroom rock narrated by a wiseguy who's as comfortable regaling PhDs and poets as he is pimps and porn stars."
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