Aug 27th, 2008

Downtown Brew and Numbskull present: Reggie and the Full Effect with support Mc Chris, Leathermouth, Warship and New Tomorrow. Reggie and the Full Effect is a solo project for James Dewees. In the late 1990s, when he was still playing with The Get Up Kids, he wrote several songs that he felt wouldn't fit with the band's style. However, he continued to write, and soon, with the help of The Get Up Kids lead singer Matt Pryor, he recorded and released Reggie and the Full Effect's first album Greatest Hits 1984-1987 in 1998 on Second Nature Recordings. Dewees plays nearly every instrument on Reggie's recordings, including bass, drums, and keyboards. Each album also includes songs by alternate personas, acted out by Dewees in various styles. Fluxuation (who is reminiscent of artists from the New Wave and New Romantic styles), and Common Denominator, a Finnish Metal band with more industrial learnings similar to that of Germany's Rammstein.