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on their respective nights and tickets are $15 at the door. “We’re super-excited for the new room - more dance space.”īoth shows begin at 10 p.m. “Our new venue can easily hold twice as many people,” Pelton says. However, the alternative country band Old Californio, which has played at both Groovefest and the Zion Canyon Music Festival, is planning a reunion show at the Bit & Spur on June 25. So far, only one band has performed there since the Bit & Spur re-opened in March. It closed in November for a four-month construction project that significantly enlarged the room where the venue hosts live music. They met there and began chatting about music.Īlex Pelton, co-owner of the Bit & Spur, is excited to have Bombay Heavy play in the newly renovated restaurant. Wu says he met Whited in London at a greyhound race. The band even has an interesting origin story. And supposedly he was adopted by Chinese parents.Īll of this only adds to the mystique of Bombay Heavy. When The Spectrum & Daily News tried to confirm the connection via email following a telephone interview with Wu, he simply responded: “David is a mate, mate.” One minute later a second email arrived: “He writes nice little hippy songs.”īombay Heavy doesn’t do “nice little hippy songs.” Hopkins may have written songs like that but Wu most certainly does not. However, if you ask Wu about Hopkins he’ll deny they are the same person. If you begin to research Wu you’ll probably discover it’s an alter ego for the Irish-born singer-songwriter David Hopkins, who was the original keyboard player for the Irish rock band LiR for more than a decade before moving to the United States and launching a solo career in 2001.

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