NEWBEATS
Mojo Nixon and his partner Skid Roper are strangely out of their element, virtually trapped in a little square room deep below the Hollywood soundstage of The Late Show. Wearing their road-worn denim and sitting with a couple of buddies, they wait anxiously for their big moment which will come later that night.
NEWBEATS
FEATURES
Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper • The Brandos • The Go-Betweens • The Beat Farmers
MOJO�S WORKIN�
Mojo Nixon and his partner Skid Roper are strangely out of their element, virtually trapped in a little square room deep below the Hollywood soundstage of The Late Show. Wearing their road-worn denim and sitting with a couple of buddies, they wait anxiously for their big moment which will come later that night.
Cold pizza, a fancy fruit basket and six*packs of Jolt Cola are within easy reach. And watching over it all are Gumby, waving down from the TV, and Elvis, his brooding face painted on a rug hanging from the wall.
"You know, it doesn�t smell like piss in here,� says Mojo in his quick Southern drawl, comparing the room to most places he�s played. "Usually these rooms smell like piss and there�s this deranged writing on the wall.�