UNDERTOW #95

10/1/25

2025 REMAINING GIG SCHEDULE (LISTED BY VENUE, ALL GIGS TERRY & JERRY UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED) OF THE WEEK:

Jersey Girl:

Friday 10/3, 930a-1230p. I’ve often wondered what brunch at Jersey Girl was like as I strolled past it every Saturday on my mini-hike to PigDog. Now I get to find out! If it’s anything like dinner, it’s delicious. This will be our FINAL-final Morey’s Piers-adjacent gig of the season and, well, I could wax poetic here for a paragraph or two on how much fun it’s been and how much it’s meant to me, personally, to continue my renewal of friendships forged in the fires of the Ghost Ship, but I won’t. Instead, I’ll just say it’s been great, and we appreciate everyone who helped put us there. We look forward to, if possible, more in 2026.

The Brown Room at Congress Hall: Cape May’s living room and one of your finer, if not the finest, rooms in which to catch a tune. Please note the 12/6 gig with Nancy Malcun. Nancy is one of your finer, if not the finest, vocalists you’ll ever hear.

Friday 10/3, 7-11

Saturday 10/11, 2-6

Friday 10/17, 7-11

Saturday 10/24, 2-6

Saturday 11/1, 2-6

Saturday 11/8, 2-6

Saturday 11/15, 2-6 w/ Jay Laboy

Saturday 11/22, 2-6

Saturday 12/6, 330-730 w/ Nancy Nalcun(!!!)

Saturday 12/27, 330-730 w/ TBD

The Beach Shack at Rusty Nail:

Wednesday, 10/8, 5-9. A rare October one-off at my favorite outdoor venue. I hope the weather permits us to be outside. There are lots of cool places to play. The Rusty Nail with a crisp Autumn breeze and roaring fire pits is among the coolest.

Carney’s: For my Cape May folks, a chance to catch a few gigs with my new side piece, Jay Laboy. Jay is a dynamic player, a fine vocalist and (so far) a good guy (though that could change). Why, he even had the temerity to sing Copperline without my permission last week…

Saturday 10/11, 7-10 w/ Jay Laboy.

Saturday 10/18, 6-9

Saturday 10/26, 7-10 w/ Jay Laboy

Saturday 11/15, 7-10

Saturday 11/22, 7-10 w/ Jay Laboy

Anglesea Pub: Sadly, not as many end-of-the-year gigs at ye olde Pub this year as in year’s past. No one can quite figure out why. Just the vagaries of scheduling and whatnot. Hopefully we can circle a bunch more for early 2026. We love the Pub.

Friday 10/24, 9-12

Saturday 12/13, 9-12

UNDERTOW #95 NON-MUSIC EDITION:

I had literally 6 notes to prep this week’s column. Not 6 pages, not 6 paragraphs, but 6 notes. A “note” means I’ve had (what I think is a good or funny) idea, I pull out my phone and open up my Google Drive and write a short sentence as a prompt for when I sit down and write, usually something like “thank you mpo” which is meant to remind me to say thanks to MPO (Morey’s Piers Organization) and is usually misspelled along the lines of “thabo yo mop” but still serves to spark a few thoughts. Yeah, I had 6 of those this week. (I usually have 20-30.)

NOTE #1: “Nose razor.”

NOTE #2: “Cut my nose shaving.”

I believe these notes are meant to be combined into one long soliloquy in which I lament the terrible things that happen to my nose every time I shave. You see, I use one of those crazy 5-blade disposable razors because they’re (A) cheap, (B) are actually really good razors, but mostly because (C) they’re cheap. The lament comes from the nasal acrobatics I have to perfrom to shave the mustache directly under my nose because my mega 5-blade razor with comfort strip and lube strip and landing strip and chicken strip and stripper pole don’t quite fit under the ole’ schnazzola. I believe “nose razor” means I wish they had a razor shaped like your nostrils to just thwip shave those suckers down. Alas. As it stands, I guess I’ll just have to sheel out a few more shekels for a pack 1-or-2 blade dealies just for under my nose. What am I, Rockefeller?

NOTE #3: “Carney’s folks. But not Sandy.” This is meant to remind me of all the people who came out to see Jerry Kolber and I last Saturday at our first ever Carney’s gig. These people included Alex & Lynn Sosik, Wendy & Randy Redelico, The Bonnie Kolber Brigade and David Miller & his not-wife wife Michelle. But not Sandy & Ralph Mannik, as they weren’t there. This was meant to bust their chops a bit as the only active Undertow readers not to make the gig, but I now have to turn around and eat those words as they were the only active Undertow reader to to make our final Thursday night Jersey Girl gig. So… thanks! We have the best friends. (I must also make one additional note here and put Alex Sosik in bold print once again, as he seems to be a bit sensitive lately about not getting enough Undertow love, so here’s a virtual hug, Alex! From Undertow to you!) (((((((((((((((ALEX)))))))))))))))

NOTE #4: “If I was an asshole to you when I was drinking, the best way to get back at me is to come to a gig and request Brown Eyed Girl.” This one feels pretty self-explanatory.

NOTE #5: “Here’s why I leave the seat up…” This one’s been in my Undertow Bible for a while but I’ve only just now mustered the courage to say it! Yes! I leave the seat up! “You monster!” you might say. “How could you?” you might ask. I would simply reply that, especially in a social setting like playing a private gig at somebody’s house where both genders (you read that right, I’m political) share a rest room, leaving the seat up signifies to the person who comes in after me, be they male or female (political!), that I, indeed, lifted the seat to relieve my bladder (I never poop unless it’s a home game) so they don’t have to wonder should they need to sit if there are any sprinkles left to dab. It’s common courtesy is what it is. I’m a forward thinker. You’re welcome, universe.

NOTE #6: “I’m already incredibly sexy. Can you imagine me with hair?” Hahahahahahahahaha! I can’t remember what prompted me to write this down. But, really, it’s just common sense. Can you imagine this swag with a full head of flowing locks? The mind boggles…

SUBSCRIBER COUNT OF THE WEEK:

19 (nineteen, I had to put it in parentheses because I don’t know how to start a paragraph with a number so the machine doesn’t think I’m writing a list.) I honestly can’t remember if that’s more or less than I had the last time I checked. It feels like… the same? Anyway, that’s about 10% of my total subscribers, which I feel like isn’t a terrible ratio, I just need 1000x more total subscribers…

Regardless, THANK YOU! To all of you who pay to be here and to all the cheap bastards who don’t!