Foam 'N' Mesh

BY WILL SPITZ
"I will walk the fuck out of here," threatened Foam ’N’ Mesh frontman Nubs Zanella last Thursday night at Remington’s, the bar/restaurant/comedy club opposite the Common on Boylston Street. He was protesting the abominable PA system, which was garbling his fake-redneck accent. For the only time all night, Nubs — known to the authorities as Matt Hooker, to Boston metalcore fans as the guitarist in Random Acts of Violence, and to Robby Roadsteamer’s mom as her son’s worst nightmare — was not joking. The lyrics to Foam ’N’ Mesh’s "Mustache Rides Are Free" are lewd, ludicrous, and side-splitting, but you wouldn’t have known that unless you already knew the song. It just so happened that almost everyone did. When the PA crackled from bad to useless, the band turned it off completely. Thereafter the show became a drunken sing-along, with gals and guys, arm in arm, harmonizing on choruses like "I’m gonna finger you until my mom comes home" and shouting instructions for infamous sex move "The Shocker" in unison: "Add one finger to the sign of the devil." Outside the bar after the show, Rob Mills, a Foam fan from Somerville, summed up the night: "The sound sucked. The club sucked. The band sucked. It was the best time I’ve had in a year and a half." - Boston Phoenix