ER, World Still Loving Each Other in Spite of Everything

Associated Princess - With the world in turmoil Saturday over the financial crisis, disco punk band Elizabethan Report continued to lick and love the world at two Utah shows. Area persons wandering by the Live and Local Stage of the X96 Big Ass Show found a crowd and ER romping together, despite the threat of all our money being sucked away. And later that night, while men in suits were sweating over the details of a bailout plan that strives to ensure we can all still live in our homes, "Sweat Swat Swote" brought ER and a large SEGO crowd together in love on a lawn near the mental hospital.

ER guitarist Spencer Peterson instructs sign wearers how best to commune with the audience Saturday at the X96 BASH.

Love and happiness prevailed throught the SEGO show, as members of other bands joined ER on stage for a performance of The Talking Heads' "Psychokiller." Guests included John White of the John Whites, Josh Brown of Mathematics Etc., Landon Young of Virtual Pandas, and JR Boyce of Pierrot Le Fou.

Part of what may be fuelling the ER's emotional availability is a new album the band is working on. It seems no coincidence that the album is being produced at the same time as Congress's bailout plan. When asked about the similarities between ER's upcoming album and the bailout plan, lead singer Tony Petersen hinted that with his band's new album, there might be no need for a bailout plan. "The upcoming album will actually work in rejouvinating the economy. The tunes will be so potent that the economy will have no choice but to heave and jiggle to the point of complete prosperity. The ablum will both destroy the economy and then rejouvinate it in the course of, I don't know, two months."

The expected release date of the album is Fall/Winter/Holiday 2008-09.