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COVER STORY First Night 2000: A sampler Midnight madness     MORE INFORMATION Fri. 10:15-11:15 p.m., 11:45 p.m.-12:45 a.m. Hynes: Hall D Angry Salad It's only a few days before New Year's Eve, and Angry Salad lead singer Bob Whelan is in a bit of a panic. "The band was talking today, and we realized that we should probably know that 'Auld Lang Syne' tune that everybody sings at midnight," Whelan says on the phone from a tour stop in Pennsylvania. "Everyone sings the first three or four words to it, but then no one ever knows the rest." The band's New Year's Eve show at the Hynes caps a year when the local quartet took its music national. Angry Salad's self-titled, major-label debut was met with critical praise and some commercial success, thanks in part to the radio-ready tune "The Milkshake Song" and the band's muscular brand of easy-to-take pop music. "I definitely thought I would be sick of 'The Milkshake Song' by now," Whelan says of the tune the band first introduced on its 1997 disc "Bizarre Gardening Accident." "But I think one of the things that's most gratifying about having a record out there is that people know the song. Going from writing a song at home in my boxer shorts to standing onstage and having people sing it back to me has yet to get old." After its genesis at Brown University in '93, Angry Salad moved to Boston in '95 and launched into a relentless string of live shows. This year the band has played more than 200 shows, Whelan estimates, and he expects the pace to continue in 2000. For the New Year's Eve show, Whelan says, the quartet will launch into Nena's apocalyptic classic "99 Red Balloons" just before the stroke of midnight. Also, expect a tribute to teen pop tart Britney Spears. A Spears video tape has been stuck in the VCR of the band's touring van, and the band has picked up some key teen heartthrob choreography. "I should qualify that by saying we're four white guys," he said. "Some stereotypes exist for a reason. We're not pretty when we dance." - Christopher Muther Previous page | Next page

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