ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Two veteran cult favorite punk rock bands will play together at Allentown’s Maingate Nightclub, it was announced.
The Dickies, the late 1970s and ‘80s prototype pop-punk band from California known for speedy, aggressive covers of songs such as The Moody Blues’ “Nights in White Satin” and “The Banana Splits (tra la la)” TV theme song, will perform at 7 p.m. Nov. 2.
Tickets, at $25, are available at www.ticketweb.com. The show will be for ages 21 and older.Maingate Nightclub release
They’ll be joined by The Queers, a New England punk band that, in its more-than-40-year recording career, has released 15 albums and 21 full-length albums, and had its cover of the surf classic "Wipe Out" featured in the 2007 film “Surf's Up.”
Tickets, at $25, are available at www.ticketweb.com. The show will be for ages 21 and older.
Chart success and longevity
The Dickies bill themselves as one of the longest-tenured, continuously performing punk rock bands, having released their debut album, “The Incredible Shrinking Dickies,” in 1979.
The album included the group's cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid," which reached No. 45 on the UK singles charts — unheard of for a punk band at the time.
The group followed that with the album “Dawn of the Dickies,” which included its high-speed cover of "Nights in White Satin," which broke the Top 40 on the UK chart.
In 1988, the Dickies performed the theme song for the cult classic horror film "Killer Klowns from Outer Space," which also became the title track for the band’s EP that year.
The group’s last original album was 2001’s “All This and Puppet Stew.”
The group has two original members — vocalist Leonard Graves Phillips and guitarist Stan Lee.
The Queers released its debut album, “Grow Up,” in 1990. Its only original member is singer Joe Queer.
The group played the former One Centre Square nightclub in Easton with The Ataris in a co-headline show in 2017.
