Solstice Celebration w/ Holy Faint!

Doors 7pm | Show 8pm | Advance $10 / Day of Show $15 + Dice fees | All Ages

Holy Faint returns to bring you a fever dream of a Solstice celebration. On the hottest, longest day of the year, let’s don our finest fairy glamour, feast on forbidden fruit, drink ambrosia, sing our hearts out, and give special thanks to our treasured Sun and celebrate the return of the night. Who will be the May Queen? And who will be the ninth and most sacred offering?

Pagan/Solstice/Folk-Horror/Midsommar attire is encouraged but absolutely not required. Come as you are.

After the show, stay for the Club Congress Summer Zodiac Party in the Club. It’s free.

Thank god the club is dark, and the drinks are cold.

—HOLYFAINT—Alternative glam quartet Holy Faint crashes back into performing in Tucson with what one critic called “a serrated edge of punk rock” juxtaposed against “a Baroque-era aesthetic.” The Tucson quintet, founded in 2021 by Sophie Gibson-Rush, transforms classical training and aesthetics into something altogether more fun.

Gibson-Rush’s journey from classically-trained violinist to electric guitar disciple began when her husband gifted her an electric guitar for Christmas 2019. Soon after, in the depths of the 2020 lock downs, she wrote Jimmy Jolts, the anthem that would become Holy Faint’s first single.

The band crystallized when Pete and Andrea Connolly of Birds and Arrows transformed Holy Faint from bedroom recordings into a full-bodied ensemble. “I may have had the skeleton, but the life that animates the songs is completely theirs,” Gibson-Rush says of the collaboration. Lucy Dabdoub anchored the low end on bass, while Jordan Prather completed the lineup on synth and guitar.

Their sound—influenced by everything from Radiohead to Chelsea Wolfe—embodies what Gibson-Rush describes as “wrestling with this romantic love I have for, frankly, a problematic and outdated canon, and my reaction to it with a punk soul.” It’s a tension that erupts through their music, particularly on debut EP Charisma 1.

Gibson-Rush’s theatrical background infuses every performance. “I’ve done a little bit of everything,” she notes of her experience directing and acting before discovering rock and roll’s expressive power. The stage-tested chemistry between band members creates what one observer noted as an immediacy that keeps fans returning.