For the first half of the 2000s, the local surf-punk band the Cheat built itself a reputation as a wild bunch of miscreants, and with good reason--the band's shows were usually orgies of booze, sweat, and sometimes tears. (There was a particularly notorious set-to at the Word Grotto, reportedly involving a bottle of liquor, a trashed dressing room, and physical blows toward the end of the band's run.)
"When the quartet is on stage, crowds are usually rowdy," Kevin Crowe wrote in 2006. "You already know this if you were at Host Clothing in the Old City on Nov. 3, when a beery crowd turned Bedlam. Beer foam flew through the air. Stewart's guitar got drenched. Overhead, a platter of carrots, cauliflower and other freshly cut vegetables spiraled off a giant plastic saucer, thrown like a Frisbee."
If you missed the debauchery back then, or if you want to experience it again, you have one last chance this weekend. The Cheat will play at Pilot Light on Saturday, June 11, for "their first and last show in years," according to an e-mail from band honcho Fletcher Stewart. "This is the last show I play before moving to the UK, and it will be huge. I know we are so 2003, but hell....:) I think it has been coming for a while."
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