San Francisco-based rock band Primus announced it will play at Big Sky Brewing Co. on Wednesday, Sept. 9.
Tickets to the Primus and the Chocolate Factory (with the Fungi Ensemble) show will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. They will be $35 in advance and $38 the day of the concert, and will be available at Big Sky Brewing, Rockin Rudy’s Records, by phone at 1-866-468-7624 or online at ticketweb.com or knittingfactory.com.
Primus frontman/bassist Les Claypool said in a news release the band recorded an entire album covering the soundtrack to the 1971 hit film “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” based on the Roald Dahl book “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” It was released last October.
“Larry Lalonde and I were discussing the next project for the band and one thought I had was to take on some kind of sacred cow and twist it into something of our own," Claypool said. "Being that the whole Wonka thing was a massive part of my childhood, it just seemed like the perfect thing for us to sink our teeth into, in part because those tunes are all so strong.”
The band played a show at Big Sky Brewing in 2012.
“Our project is an homage to Gene Wilder and David L. Wolper’s 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' and the effect it had on me in my youth,” Claypool continued. “Now we get to sell PRIMUS bars and hang out with demented Oompa Loompas. Plus to top it off, it gives me an excuse to wear a purple, velvet waistcoat and brown top hat for the next 18 months.”