{"id":28621,"date":"2025-11-04T20:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28621\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:16:07","slug":"the-disco-biscuits-play-first-shows-with-marlon-b-lewis-at-suwannee-hulaween-and-brooklyn-bowl-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28621\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disco Biscuits Play First Shows with Marlon B. Lewis at Suwannee Hulaween and Brooklyn Bowl Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Disco Biscuits, image via YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

The Disco Biscuits set out on a new chapter in their three-decade story over the weekend as they returned to the stage for their first shows with a new lineup. After last week\u2019s departure of Allen Aucoin<\/a>, their drummer of 20 years, the enduring livetornica quartet formally introduced their refreshed sound with newcomer Marlon B. Lewis<\/a> through performances at Suwannee Hulaween and Nashville, Tenn.\u2019s Brooklyn Bowl; in three very distinct stagings, the band celebrated the occasion with several setlist curveballs.<\/p>\n

It would be difficult to find a venue better suited for initiating The Disco Biscuits\u2019 new era than Live Oak, Fla.\u2019s Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park; the beloved outdoor festival grounds have long been recognized as a haven for all forms of jam music, and the group has regularly stopped by since a 2010 appearance at the now-folded Blackwater Music Festival. In the decade and a half since, The Disco Biscuits have weathered many meaningful changes, and a double billing as their primary formation and their TRACTORBEAM alias gave them the chance to fully demonstrate their new sound and perspective.<\/p>\n

The Disco Biscuits first appeared as dusk fell on Friday, Oct. 31. On the Hallows second stage, the quartet tore into their performance with a soaring medley of the two-decade essential \u201cRock Candy\u201d and the 2024 debut \u201cCountry Royale,\u201d combined for a total of over 30 minutes. This ful embrace of unstructured improvisation carried on as the group ripped through a four-phase segued sequence for the remainder of the first set, combining \u201cHelicopters,\u201d an incomplete \u201cDino Baby\u201d and \u201cOrch Theme\u201d before a \u201cHelicopters closer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s second set proceeded from a similarly framed format, with the 22-year live essential \u201cCaterpillar both beginning and ending a five-song cycle. Highlights came from deep within a haze of rhythmic intersections, including an inverted version of \u201cPortal To an Empty Head\u201d and the first treatment of the rarity \u201cNeck Romancer\u201d since November 2024<\/p>\n

In the early hours of Saturday morning, The Disco Biscuits capped off a long night of electro-jam with a TRACTORBEAM set on the Spirit Lake stage, which centered the trance in their trance-fusion for a fully-electrified nine-track set of pulsing dance beats. The late-night mix featured a whopping five live debuts, including Bronski Beat\u2019s \u201cSmalltown Boy,\u201d Alice Deejay\u2019s \u201cBetter Off Alone\u201d and ABBA\u2019s \u201cDancing Queen.\u201d<\/p>\n

After sleeping off a wild night on the way up the coast, The Disco Biscuits arrived in Nashville on Sunday, Nov. 2, for their first full headline performance backed by Lewis. Set one from Bisco 3.0 was heavy on extended improvisation, with a 15-minute opener of \u201cAbove the Waves\u201d preceding a five-track cycle in which all parts\u2013save for the second phase of a bisected \u201cConfrontation\u2013stretched past the 10-minute mark. The band began their second set with a 20-minute \u201cCatalyst,\u201d then made their live debut as The Disco Biscuits of Chris Lake, Skrillex & Anita B. Queen\u2019s dubstep hit \u201cLa Noche\u201d\u2013a clear standout from their TRACTORBEAM set. After completing Friday\u2019s \u201cDino Baby\u201d and landing on \u201cTo Be Continued,\u201d the band capped off their performance with an encore of \u201cDigital Buddha.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Disco Biscuits will return to the stage tomorrow, Nov. 5, for a show at Charlottesville, Va.\u2019s Jefferson Theater. Find tickets and more information on the band\u2019s 2025 live itinerary at discobiscuits.com\/shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Disco Biscuits, image via YouTube The Disco Biscuits set out on a new chapter in their three-decade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,17867],"class_list":{"0":"post-28621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-the-disco-biscuits"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}