🎶 Live Music: Messer Chups at The Siren

Messer Chups brings dark surf and rockabilly from Russia to The Siren

Messer Chups play The Siren on a Saturday night, the Russian surf-rockabilly outfit that blends vintage Russian melodies, theremin, and horror-movie atmosphere into one of the more unusual touring acts to land at a small-room venue on the Central Coast. Fans of The Cramps, vintage surf records, and spaghetti-western soundtracks land in the right room.

International touring bands at small Central Coast venues are an event in themselves. Most acts at this scale loop California through the Bay Area and LA without stopping between the two, and a Morro Bay date means The Siren put in the work to land the show. Messer Chups have been on a long-running international circuit and are known for a stage presentation that runs as much theater as concert, including the silver theremin work and the era-appropriate guitar tones.

The Siren is a downtown Morro Bay live-music room at 900 Main with a layout built for an act like this: tight stage, close floor, sound that gives the theremin work and the reverb-soaked guitar enough space to land. The room serves dinner and runs a full bar through the night, and the Main Street neighborhood is one of the easier downtown stretches to spend the evening before and after a show.

Tickets are $20 to $25 in advance through tixr.com. Limited table reservations through monte@thesirenmorrobay.com. The Saturday afternoon free show with FaultLine Band wraps at 5 PM, so showing up for both is the move if you want to make a full day of it at The Siren.

For more live music and Saturday-night shows around the bay, see the event calendar.