The Van Pelt Reunion Show at Coco 66
There were a lot of people in Greenpoint feeling all ’90s Saturday night when The Van Pelt reunited as part of the Northside Festival.
The strangest moment of the night happened during the anthemic closer “The Speeding Train” when a drunken Van Pelt enthusiast-turned-awkward dancer/mosher acted aggressively enough to start a fight in the crowd. All this while we were hearing about the beauty of the puppy’s chin. Singer and occasional Take the Handle contributor Chris Leo quipped that the moshers had missed the Agnostic Front show. It made it feel even more ’90s that there was some sort of debate going on about the ethics of moshing.
Regardless, the show was about as incredible as anyone who followed the band way back when could have asked for. It seemed like the band stuck more often to songs from Sultans of Sentiment, but this song, which served as the encore, comes from their first record Stealing From Our Favorite Thieves. It is called “Magic Fantasy (We Are Provincial).”

































June 15th, 2009
Looks pretty good. Wish I coulda been there…
June 16th, 2009
[...] band has recently convened for a handful of reunion shows, so if you’re in DC or Philly, be sure to check them out at [...]
June 17th, 2009
[...] Regardless, the show was about as incredible as anyone who followed the band way back when could have asked for. It seemed like the band stuck more often to songs from Sultans of Sentiment, but this song, which served as the encore, comes from their first record Stealing From Our Favorite Thieves. It is called “Magic Fantasy (We Are Provincial).” -[Take The Handle] [...]
March 16th, 2010
Благодарю за статью! подпишусь на рсс!