Beirut May 25, 2008

Beirut is the name of 20-year-old Santa Fe native Zach Condon's one man band. Assisted by Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost, it combines elements of Eastern European and folk sounds. Coy, cute, cutie-pie, hoochie-pie, coochie-woo, woochie-candy-poo. These are, more or less, all terms that New Zealand band The Brunettes have been denying and simultaneously inviting their entire career. Jonathan and Heather met when their respective bands played a show together. They began creating boy/girl melodrama pop inspired by 70s New York punk and 60s girl groups but created in an Auckland scene of opiate-infused garage rock 'n' roll.