In Drag For Halloween


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In Drag For Halloween

In Drag For Halloween

Vig and Erikson are part of the Know-It-All Boyfriends (KIAB), an informal cover band that plays a handful of shows each year at Café Montmartre, a cozy bar and jazz café in Madison, Wisconsin. Another prominent member of the group includes singer/song writer Freedy Johnston. For over a decade, Johnston has released a handful of highly acclaimed albums, and may be best known for his work of writing incidental music for the Farrelly Brothers movie, Kingpin.

According to Duke Erikson, who plays bass, guitar and vocals in the KIAB, learning covers is just part of the fun for the band.

“An interesting part of being in KIAB is learning all these well constructed songs, and how they’re put together,” Erikson said.

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In the weeks before the show, the band had announced they had an unknown act opening for them named the Know-It-All-Girlfriends. Fans had guessed that the secret band could be anyone from local female singers, to perhaps even Garbage front woman Shirley Manson.

“We were really shut-mouth about it,” Erikson said, in between drags from his Marlboro cigarettes.

Between 9:30p.m. and10:30p.m. the band mates changed out of their regular clothes, put on black fishnet pantyhose and slowly transformed into rock & roll princesses. Butch and fellow KIAB member James “Pie” Cowan slipped into French maid outfits, and sat down to have their make-up applied by professional make-up artists. Ignoring the hair poking out of top of his dress, Cowan looked down at his chest and complained that his “breasts looked too small.”