Farewell Show
THE BUBBLEGUM COMPLEX We know there are plenty of bands in this town that you've always been meaning to check out. Well, if The Bubblegum Complex made your list, this is your last shot. After four years of making idiosyncratic, occasionally clangorous power pop together, this particular assemblage of players is calling it quits. In the words of frontman Caldwell Dunlap, "We have no time to get together to write new songs, and if we ain't gonna be recordin', we don't see a point to staying together." With a pregnant bassist, a drummer with a wee one and most members involved in a handful of other projects, it seems like an inevitable choice. But before they ride off into the local rock sunset, The Complex will release a final album of songs in a limited run of 50 copies. And for this final show, they've promised a white suit, oldies-but-goodies and plenty of unbridled enthusiasm. The Carter Administration, Magnet School and Bob Grant open. 9 p.m. at The 5 Spot —LEE STABERT