'Whip It Good!': Take a new wave journey with Carl Gentry and Friends in Asbury Park
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Whip it into shape this weekend in Asbury Park.
You can at the “Whip It Good!” '80s new wave rock revue with Carl Gentry and Friends Saturday, Nov. 19, at Tim McLoone's Supper Club on the boardwalk in Asbury Park.
Think of it as an early '80s mixtape played live by some of the area's top musicians.
“It's the sound of the new wave,” said Gentry said. “The keyboards and the themes they had, it had that little new wave twitch to it. It's rock songs, which is cool — but before everything got really big in the '80s, including the hair.”
It's the music that accompanied the birth of MTV — which used to show music videos instead of continuous episodes of “Wild 'N Out.”
“This is basically me coming home from school, junior high or 9th grade, going home and turning the TV on downstairs and it would be one after another of every one of these bands,” Gentry said. “It's a real passion project for all of us in the band. We're all around the same era in our 50s. This music was so big.”
Expect to hear music from bands like the Cars, Squeeze, A Flock of Seagulls, Joe Jackson, Madness, Adam Ant, Gary Numan, the Clash, the Romantics, Modern English, Devo and more. New wave refers to the bands, many of them British, who emerged in the late '70s and early '80s and were inspired by punk rock.
The Gentry band includes Arne Wendt, who played with Jon Bon Jovi's Kings of Suburbia; Muddy Shews (Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes); and Chris O'Hara (Dramarama). Alas, no Bon Jovi songs — not quite new wavey enough, Gentry said.
Go: “Whip It Good!” with Carl Gentry and Friends, 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, Tim McLoone's Supper Club, Asbury Park Boardwalk, $39.95; timmcloonessupperclub.com.
David Sancious in Red Bank
If you've ever wondered why the E Street Band is called the E Street Band, it's because former band member David Sancious used to live on E Street in Belmar.
Sancious returns to the Jersey Shore with a show Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, at the Vogel theater inside the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank. The night, titled “An Evening with David Sancious,” is presented by the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music at Monmouth University and the Basie Center.
Living Colour drummer and multi-Grammy winner Will Calhoun will join Sancious on stage.
“I’m really happy to return to the Jersey Shore,” said Sancious in a statement. “Playing under the banner of the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music makes the show even more rewarding for me.”
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Sancious has played with his own group, Tone, as well as Peter Gabriel, Sting, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Seal and more.
“We are proud to present David Sancious in concert, marking the Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music’s first public program of 2023,” said archives director Eileen Chapman in a statement. “David’s contributions to the E Street Band in the early ‘70s are well-known, and his recordings as a solo artist are highly regarded.”
Tickets start at $49. Visit thebasie.org for more information.
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Chris Jordan, a Jersey Shore native, covers entertainment and features for the USA Today Network New Jersey. Contact him at @chrisfhjordan; cjordan@app.com.
This article originally appeared on Asbury Park Press: New wave music: Whip It Good at the Jersey Shore with Carl Gentry
