Best Video Film & Cultural Center hosts a matinee twin-bill featuring Wednesday Week (from Los Angeles) and The Brian Larney Band on Sun., Nov. 8, at 4 PM. The cover is $10.
Los Angeles band Wednesday Week (named after an Undertones song) debuted alongside the flowering, droning and buzzing neo-psych Paisley Underground on the early '80s compilations "The Radio Tokyo Tapes" and "WarfRat Tales." Linked to their SoCal contemporaries by a DIY garage sensibility, Wednesday Week was led by sisters Kristi and Kelly Callan on vocals, guitar, and drums, and included Heidi Rodewald on bass, who went on to be nominated for a Tony for Passing Strange, and David Nolte on lead guitar, who went on to play with David Gray and Dave Davies among many others. The band released the acclaimed “Betsy’s House” EP on WarfRat Records in 1983 produced by Vitus Mataré, “What We Had", a full length album produced by Don Dixon (REM, The Smithereens) in 1987 on Engima Records, and the Earle Mankey produced “No Going Back” on Sweden Spins Records in 1990, after which the band broke up.
In the 1980s, the band toured the United States and Canada, and had tracks featured in such films as Slumber Party Massacre Part 2, Undercover, as well as Doing Time on Planet Earth, appeared on the Arsenio Hall Show, Much Music in Canada, and were regularly seen on MTV’s 120 Minutes.
The original foursome reunited with their “What We Had” producer, Don Dixon to record a four-song EP single finishing just days before the pandemic shutdown in March 2020. The EP was put on the backburner until a conversation with Label 51’s Bill Hein (formerly of Enigma Records) revived the project. Featuring cover songs the band used to play back in the 1980s by Sandie Shaw, The Zeros, Dolly Mixture and Cover Me Gone, the EP is a souvenir, or memento of days gone by.
Wednesday Week will be touring to promote the EP single toward the end of 2026 with UK dates planned in spring 2027 to support the 40th Anniversary reissue of their 1987 album, a double LP/CD including their Enigma release “What We Had” and previously unreleased tracks from the band’s archives, bringing back the golden heyday of alternative music before it was branded and commercialized by the major labels.
The Brian Larney Band is a hook-driven rock/pop outfit built around the songs of songwriter Brian Larney. Haunted by hooks and good old-fashioned songcraft, the band channels the melodic punch and heart of 70s and 80s guitar pop—big choruses, ringing guitars and the kind of songs that stay with you long after the last note fades. Larney (vocals, guitar) is joined by Dean Falcone (lead guitar, vocals), Mitchell Sigmun (keys) Bob Hibson (bass), and Scott Logan (drums), a lineup that brings both muscle and nuance to the material.
Larney’s songs have earned placements in film and television and he has shared stages with artists like Cheap Trick, Big Head Todd & the Monsters and Ellis Paul. In this full band setting, those melodic instincts expand into a full-throttle live show-tight, energetic and built around the simple idea that great songs and players still matter. Equal parts power-pop shimmer and Brill Building–inspired songcraft, The Brian Larney Band delivers timeless, melody-first rock made for anyone who still believes in the power of a great chorus.