The war on The War on Drugs continued Friday night in Duluth, as Mark Kozelek (aka Sun Kil Moon) unleashed his epic "The War On Drugs: Suck My C---" with help from Low's Alan Sparhawk.
The performance marked the third time Kozelek has unleashed the diss track since creating it this summer, and the crowd loved it.
The Current was there to set the table (via Stereogum):
As the night went on, Kozelek asked his friends Al (Sparhawk) and Mimi (Parker, also of Low) to join him for a couple of songs. Sparhawk took the stage and mentioned that he thought Mimi had already left, giving the crowd a good laugh as they called out for her from the stage. Sparhawk accompanied Kozelek for renditions of "Little Drummer Boy" and "Do You Hear What I Hear?" before being taken by surprise when Kozelek began playing Sonny and Cher's loving duet, "I Got You Babe." It was a genuinely fun moment between the two and the audience definitely felt the connection and appreciated the silliness from two guys who don't often get characterized as such.
After Sparhawk took his leave, Kozelek was about to start performing when he noted that "I wish I had someone who could play a one-note guitar part" and then slyly bellowed, "Alan, get out here!" Sparhawk sheepishly emerged from backstage in order to play the droning guitar part and a couple of "beer commercial rock" solos during Kozelek's song "War On Drugs: Suck My C---." As the song's chanting ending came to a close, Sparhawk attempted to join in on the singing, but noticeably not wanting to sing the titular line, he instead just added the word "drugs" to the chorus, which amused the audience to no end.
Gum also notes that Kozelek appeared to indirectly call Perfect Pussy's Meredith Graves a "loser" when ranting about the blowback from his War On Drugs tune.
Check out the performance below:
