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January 27, 2010 at 11:03am

PLAN AHEAD: Yellow Cross

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NO LONGER VIRGINS >>>

Yellow Cross is the band formerly known around Oly as the psychedelic sludge fiends, Black Virgin. Doing some research, the boys found another band named Black Virgin, purportedly from the early '80s, and thus decided a change was in order. Sitting with vocalist Carlton Bostock, guitarist Todd Bernd and bass player Sam Riksfjord, they explained the process of going through just about every name imaginable trying to find a replacement. Riksfjord, an avowed scholar of ancient Europe, explained that the yellow cross was the first official "mark of religious persecution."  It surfaced around the 12th century in France, in response to the Cathars, a dualistic religious order in direct defiance of Roman Catholic mandates and ceaselessly tormented by the Inquisitors - who made repentant Cathars bear the mark of the yellow cross. 

Regardless of the name change, Yellow Cross ascends unto Olympia and The Brotherhood this Sunday to persecute the eardrums of the heathen hordes - launching an intense Gnostic assault on your very ability to understand. 

[The Brotherhood Lounge, with November Witch, Red Trails, Sunday, Jan. 31, 9 p.m., $2, 119 Capitol Way N., downtown Olympia, 360.352.4153]

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