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MANANA COUCH BROOKLYN DIRT LP

Review by Allan McNaughton

MaximumRockNRoll #431 April 2019

This Brooklyn band plays a rollicking blend of party punk and rock’n’roll. Metallic riffs and playing bolster the sound, which is a combination of early VAN HALEN, NEW YORK DOLLS, and would you believe POISON IDEA? I honestly enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would, based on the terrible cover art and inscrutable name. From the looks of the photos, these are not young guys, and they’ve been around the block. But they know what they’re doing, and have managed to churn out a great ’80s punk / metal LP in 2019.

MANANA COUCH SHOW HISTORY

Don Pedro's - Brooklyn, NYC with The Hecklers, The Afterbirth, The Little Seizures (2/25/12)

Goodbye Blue Mondays - Brooklyn, NYC with The Honey Harlows, The Afterbirth, 3 Brained Robot (8/31/12)

Grand Victory - Brooklyn, NYC with Strange Haze, The Backburners (12/1/12)

Hank's Saloon - Brooklyn, NYC (12/1/12)

The Trash Bar – Brooklyn, NYC with The Minor Cuts, The Upskirts, The Lucky 6's (12/22/12)

Fontana's NYC - Manhattan, NYC with She Said Fire, Black Sunday (12/28/12)

Connolly's Klub 45 - Manhattan, NYC (1/11/13

Hank's Saloon - Brooklyn, NYC (1/12/13)

Don Pedro’s - Brooklyn, NYC

Grand Victory - Brooklyn, NYC (1/19/13)

Otto's Shrunken Head - Manhattan, NYC (3/23/13

Leftfield - Manhattan, NYC with The Aliens (4/12/13)

Otto's Shrunken Head - Manhattan, NYC with Girl to Gorilla, The Carvels, The Bloodshots, Jones Crusher (4/20/13)

Don Pedro’s - Brooklyn, NYC with The Afterbirth, Super Happy Facepunch, Spewing Cum, Judge Mental (6/14/13)

Grand Victory - Brooklyn, NYC with Spewing Cum (6/29/2013)

Hank's Saloon - Brooklyn, NYC (6/29/2013)

Fatty Cue's - Brooklyn, NYC (7/4/13)

Fatty 'Cues - Brooklyn, NYC with The Ringleaders (7/21/13)

Don Pedro's - Brooklyn, NYC with Spewing Cum, The Black Furs, Nasty Savage, Bunch of Girls (8/24/13)

Grand Victory - Brooklyn, NYC with Spewing Cum, Bunch of Girls, Bobby Conquer (9/2/13)

The Trash Bar - Brooklyn, NYC with Bucket Flush, Crusade (9/3/2013)

Grand Victory - Brooklyn, NYC with Runny, Penguin & Agitator

Cobra Club - Brooklyn, NYC with The Afterbirth (12/14/13)

Cobra Club - Brooklyn, NYC with Fake Hooker, Dead Betties, Mello Bravo and Harvester ( 1/11/14)

Cobra Club- Brooklyn, NYC with Cheap Sneakers and Live Girls (3/1/2014)

Cobra Club- Brooklyn, NYC with Mad Doctors and Grey Nurse (3/15/2014)

Cobra Club - Brooklyn, NYC with Delete_ and Bad Look (5/2014)

Parkside Lounge - Manhattan - with Hans Chew, Dark Moon Apache, Honey Suckle Rose and Sugar Hippo (6/21/2014)

Legion Bar – Brooklyn, NYC - with Woodhead (6/21/2014)

Cake Shop – Manhattan, NYC - with Live Girls!!!, Secondary Modern and Steve Shiffman & the Land of No (6/26/14)

Belmount House of Smoke - Norfolk, VA - with The Bottle Babies (7/26/14)

Spin NYC - Manhattan - (8/1/2014)

The Fifth Estate - Brooklyn - with Viv Savage and Dizzy Juice (8/15/14)

The Cobra Club - Brooklyn - with Children of October (Pittsburg, PA) (8/16/14)

The Cobra Club - Brooklyn - with Wildbone (2/5/15)

The Cobra Club - Brooklyn - with The Omega Men and The Long Losts (2/21/15)

The Cobra Club - Brooklyn - with Garden of Surgery (3/7/15)

The Grand Victory - Brooklyn - with Thunder Chief (5/3/15)

The Cobra Club - Brooklyn - With FTW and The Last Throes (5/9/15)

Lucky 13 - Brooklyn - with Death Vacation, Crime Wave and Earworms (7/11/15)

The Cobra Club - Brooklyn - with Dream Team and Paycheck (9/13/15)

The Cobra Club - Brooklyn - with The Curs (12/31/15)

The Grand Victory - Brooklyn - with Cinema Cinema and Art Gray Noizz Quintet (2/12/16)

Don Pedro's - Brooklyn - with Heaps, Pelviss and Sex Scheme (3/25/16)

Otto's Shrunken Head - Manhattan (3/31/16)

Leftfield - Manhattan (5/13/16)
Parkside Lounge - Manhattan - with The Buy Backs (5/27/16)

Don Pedros – Brooklyn, NYC - with The Zeros and NYC Taps (7/8/16)

Black Bear – Brooklyn, NYC(8/12/16)

Excerpt from the nationalgeographic.com article featuring Manana Couch drummer Zandy Mangold:

THIS UNLIKELY ULTRAMARATHONER IS FUELED BY SCIENCE, OBSESSION, AND A LOVE OF THE STRUGGLE

Winning a 155-mile race is about more than speed.

AN UNLIKELY COMPETITOR

Even in the eccentric world of ultramarathon racing, (Zandy) Mangold is an unlikely pacesetter. The Brooklyn-based photographer speaks like a Warped Tour attendee, eats a vegan diet (“I'm not militant!”), drums in a band called Mañana Couch, and sells cookies on the side. Despite his voice (two parts Blink 182's Mark Hoppus and one part Fast Times at Ridgemont High’s Spicoli), Mangold has a deeply competitive streak and an obsession with testing himself.