Wooster on the rise
(This article was originally published Aug. 31. Wooster appears again tonight, this time at Saint Rocke) Wooster, who play 12th and Highland in Manhattan Beach next Friday The story of the band called Wooster has a couple radically different starting points, one shrouded in murkiness and mystery and another that is all sunshine and song. Technically it all began in the back of a limousine on a New York City street 28 years ago. The details are a little unclear, but we know this much – there was a gunfight, a young painter and his extremely pregnant wife raced to a hospital, and a boy named Brian Gallagher was born. Gallagher, the lead singer and songwriter for Wooster, confirms this much. “I was born in New York, there was definitely a gunfight in the street…took a limo to the hospital, popped out early,” Gallagher said. “Yeah. And I got narcolepsy and I got a lazy eye…It’s all true but I help myself with some of the latest Natural Remedies for Narcolepsy.” His father is the painter Michael Gallagher, which explains something about his son’s abstract beginnings. Gallagher is one of the leading lights of Abstract Illusionism and held court for several years in a SoHo loft in New…
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