Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s perform last show together at Buskirk

Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s will perform their last show with the original eight members at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, and it is unknown if they will play together again.

The news, which was posted on the Indianapolis-based band’s MySpace page, has fans coming out in droves to see the last show. 

“It’s going to be packed. They are very popular and kind of local so there’s a lot of followership in Indy and Bloomington,” Maarten Bout, Buskirk’s marketing director, said. “It’s going to be a full show.”

The Buskirk-Chumley’s Web site describes the band as urban folk, and opening acts Pravada and Super Desserts will perform as well.

For some fans, all it took was one listen to understand Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s sound.

“I heard ‘Skeleton Key’ ... and my boyfriend lent me the CD,” graduate student Kathleen Surfus said. “It was awesome, and I really wanted to check them out.”

Graduate student Andrew Weber said he is looking forward to seeing the band.

“The percussionist ... (is) really weird and really fun to watch,“ Weber said.

While the band might have exaggerated its beginnings by saying that members Richard Edwards and Andy Fry met at a pet store, its quest to stay true to the music has won the respect of fans.

Whether the music will be affected is yet to be seen, but some fans already have opinions.

“I think their stage show could be worse because eight people create an ambience,” Weber said.

Dan Coleman of Spirit of ’68  Promotions, which is the sponsor of the show, is slightly more optimistic.

“The members of Margot will go on to follow their own pursuits now,” Coleman said in an e-mail. “But the magic they created together ends when the final note is played and the last chords fade into the ether.”