Grem (Weekend’s Shaun Durkan) covers Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game”
February 4, 2011
Written by Ben Van Houten
Where do guys in busy touring bands find the time to also have side projects? In any event, Weekend‘s Shaun Durkan has been recording noisy, droney works as Grem, and has a handful of tracks up on Bandcamp at present. One of those songs is the above reinterpretation of “Wicked Game,” originally done by SF indie rock icon/thespian (ahem) Chris Isaak.
I’ll now wait patiently for a video of Durkan and a model hanging out on the beach. For reference, the original is below, as is the complete collection of Grem songs on Bandcamp.
Putting a bunch of noise on the track may make you appeal to hipsters, but the guy can’t sing…
Awful