Songwriter/Musician Jean Caffeine Performs 'Sadie Saturday Nite',

From drumming to all girl bands to honky tonking, singer/songwriter/musician Jean Caffeine has lived nine fascinating lives. Her life adventures vaulted her from drumming for the San Francisco all girl punk band The Urge, to New York in the 80's, where she was recruited by founder Ann Magnuson to drum for Pulsallama, forming Clambake with Holly George Warren and two former Austin punkettes, to moving to Austin, where she currently resides, where she fronted her y'allternative country band, Jean Caffeine's All Nite Truckstop. To celebrate her early punk roots and the 40th anniversary of the California punk rock scene, Jean, described as a "cross between Brenda Lee and Patti Smith" by the "Austin American Statesman", recently released "Sadie Saturday Nite", a concept album on vinyl about Jean's coming of age in the San Francisco punk scene, on Joe Records. The "Austin Chronicle's" Greg Beets reviewed "Sadie Saturday Nite" and said, "Caffeine's folk-infused storytelling captures both the heady and foreboding elements of Bay Area youthdom in the Summer of Hate'".

To celebrate the release of "Sadie Saturday Nite", her first record since 2011's "Geckos in the Elevator", Jean will be performing her one woman show about a drummer in an all-girl band, on 10/26 at The Slipper Room (167 Orchard St). The show features spoken word and songs about growing up punk in San Francisco in the 70s, a timely reminder of the 40th anniversary of important debut albums by bands including X, the Clash, the Damned and Sex Pistols, as well as the birth of many regional first wave punk bands. Jean says, "'Sadie' speaks to anyone who loves punk, or who's been a part of a scene, or who's had their heart broken.

On the heels of the video for the first single from "Sadie Saturday Nite", "All Girl Band", which chronicles Jean's tenure in three all female bands, she has released a video for "Winter of Hate", a song about the last Sex Pistols show at Winterland in San Francisco on 1/14/78.

"I remember having a lot of mixed emotions about the show," she says. "It was exciting that they came to play my city but the venue seemed like a sell out. John asked from the stage, 'Do you ever feel like you've been cheated?' Although when I watch the footage from that show now, the show seems great, the answer at the time was yes. The band was on the verge of a breakup and that show seemed to push them over the edge."

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