Denver is hardly lacking for cover bands. But one of the best for my money is the Nuns of Brixton, the group that covers the Clash while wearing nun habits.
It helps that the band has the perfect frontman behind the mic: Jim Yelenick. Yelenick is the kind of charismatic ham that can pull off such a preposterous feat. Punk staples “Should I Stay or Should I Go,” “Rock the Casbah” and of course “The Guns of Brixton” — all from an imposingly tall, friendly-faced man cross-dressed as a Catholic nun.
And they make it work. Primarily because they take the Clash’s music very seriously.
We’re giving away two pairs of tickets to the band’s Friday-night show at the Bluebird Theater right here. It’s a holiday show — “Clash-mas,” they’re calling it — and also on the bill are the Shaloms (a Jewish Ramones tribute), Weasel Saurus (a Screeching Weasel tribute) and the Bloody Scallywags (an Echo & the Bunnymen tribute).
ENTER TO WIN NUNS OF BRIXTON TICKETS FOR FRIDAY’S SHOW AT THE BLUEBIRD THEATER:
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Ricardo Baca is the founder and executive editor of , the co-founder of The UMS and an award-winning critic and journalist at The Denver Post.
