Candy Truck
Greta O and the Toxic Shock
Chipper Bones
Wednesday March 26, 2025.
@ Moodright’s – Savannah, Georgia
Show review and photographs by Jeffrey Howard
A friend of mine recommended Moodright’s to me when I was down in Orlando. It was a place they had visited on vacation and had a really good time there. I was new to Savannah and was always looking for new places to try out. They said it was a bar but also mentioned they had weird bowling. I didn’t know what that meant until I would wander in one evening. They have what they call Duck Bowling, which is like bowling but with small ball, small lane and small pins. Key word — small, obviously.
The bar has three pool tables, a Photo Booth that I would end up making out in several times and a long hallway that turns into a whole different bar called Over Yonder. Now that side is more of a Texas western themed bar with a small stage and a kitchen for food. It’s really such a cool place and vibe. I took to both these places immediately.
Maybe the most important thing to me is they serve Lone Star beer from Texas. I’ve never even seen it outside Texas and definitely nowhere in Florida. I’m sold!
While there are bands regularly playing throughout the week and weekends on the Over Yonder side, it doesn’t happen too often on the Moodright’s side. Though I have seen some and seen pictures from past events. When they do they lay out a stage over the bowling lanes! It’s lifted a little high so you can see even from the back of the room.
Now this show was announced like a day or two before it was to happen. It was billed as a “secret” show for new Savannah band Candy Truck along with a couple of other Savannah bands, Chipper Bones and Greta O and the Toxic Shock. According to both bands Instagram accounts neither haven’t been very active for a few years. It seemed like a rare treat to take in some old “new to me” bands.
I walk over from my house to Moodright’s. I feel good so I wear my favorite all-time corduroys, a multi-colored horizontal stripe by Tilt made in the 1990s. I’ve owned three pairs of them so far in life. Once when I was a size 0 in ladies size. I outgrew them and been chasing that high ever since. I literally have an Ebay alert set up so if anyone ever lists these pants I will know right away! I finally have one that fits me as I am now. I paired it with a 1980s Chuck Berry vintage wax iron on I placed on a modern American Apparel raglan shirt. I love love love iron-ons if you didn’t already know! Sorry I did not take a photo of this outfit [Edit: found one!]. I am an outfit repeater so this one may show up again.
I arrived at the back end at Over Yonder, grabbed a Rolling Rock as they are out of Lone Star, greeted some friends and headed down the hallway to Moodright’s.
I could already hear a band playing walking into the room. There were a lot of people! Maybe the most I’ve ever seen. I zig zagged my way up through the crowd to the front to see Savannah band Chipper Bones for the first time. I recognized the singer/guitarist, Kyle Brown, from booking shows under the name Dog Days Presents.
They are impressive!— they rock and roll with a bit of swagger — part indie rock and part bar rock. A good combination if you’re into both Thee Oh Sees and the Bob Seger Sound System.
A beer or two later Greta O and The Toxic Shock come onstage and start the mosh pit. This band is fast punk, kinda hardcore, led by Greta Odrezin, a powerhouse singer. Their songs are quick, short and to the point. They ruled!
I’ve seen Candy Truck back in September at perhaps an early moment in their band life. I am a big fan of weird shows in weird places and that show was at a seafood restaurant down called Dockside Seafood Bar & Grill on River Street, of all places. I passed this place many times thinking it was a fancy place. Well, it was not!
For those not familiar River Street is the touristy strip along the Savannah River. Some locals may call it a hellscape but I kinda love it — me being from a tourist city myself, even owning a vintage shop on International Drive, one of the world’s most known tourist strips.
Tonight the band was on fire and super fun. They call themselves skate punk which roughly means they have amalgam of influences from pop punk with a little garage rock. It’s Drake on vocals and guitar, Lily on guitar, Audrey on bass and Anthony pounding out on the drums. They get better every time I see them.
Links:
Candy Truck
Greta O and the Toxic Shock
Chipper Bones
Moodright’s
Dog Days Presents
Kick Bright Zine 