Cricketbows

Rev Chad Wells is always full of surprises. Yet, his latest musical foray, Cricketbows, stunned those familiar with the rock ’n’ roll oeuvre of this tattoo-slinging former frontman for B-movie punks The Jackalopes. Where the ’Lopes were irreverent and hard-edged, created under the influence of The Misfits and cheap beer, Cricketbows is more experimental and, dare I say, a bit hippified. Wells has assumed the mantle of musical merry prankster