The Other Side of Life is proud to present:
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PIPE FITTER
Monday, April 20th, 2026
at B-Side
1076 E. Washington Street, 2nd Floor
Louisville, KY 40206
$10 advance tickets, $15 day of show
Advance tickets available online at TicketLeap;
Physical tickets available for in-person purchase at Surface Noise (cash only), 600 Baxter Avenue, Louisville KY 40204
21+
7:00 PM doors
8:00 PM music
Pete Nolan was SPECTRE FOLK before drumming and strumming in Magik Markers was his main gig, and will be SPECTRE FOLK long after he shuffles off this mortal coil. The main benefit of ghost-folk is: you can play it way after you’re dead, and while you’re alive the Spectre can haunt any decent willing body with a gift for the unreal. This time around, fellow Abbey Road alum and cinematographer Eben Bull creates scapes of sound on keys to accompany Pete, who jams his kief-encrusted thumbprint directly in the center of the proceedings. Also, in the crew are Tuscadero frontperson Mellie Ferris on bass, fellow Magik Marker John Shaw on drums, and Pete’s daughter little Violet Ray on guitar. The music they make takes a leisurely pace, like opening the cabin for the first time in the season, introducing all the ambient nature world funk that seeped through into the nose and lungs. They deal in righteous, stank Lazy Horse/CCCR type jammers and a general sense of “folk vacation,” the beer’s gone, what a time we had so let’s roll another number for the road. Fearless as a lemming, Nolan creates a private universe, a Society of the Spectre-cal, if you will, and his gift is his freedom. Let’s have a drift.
SPECTRE FOLK‘s most recent album, “Quabbin Winter,” was co-released by Nolan’s Arbitrary Signs and Ryan Davis’s Sophomore Lounge in 2025 in a limited edition of 200, and features James Canty (The Make-Up, Nation of Ulysses) and Eben Bull, and was produced by Mike Donovan (Sic Alps, Peacers).
PIPE FITTER is the duo of Britt Walford (Slint, Evergreen, and much more) and Kris Abplanalp (Sapat, Freud County Limits, and much more). This show is their live debut.
Special thanks to Kris Abplanalp.
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