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Dead Cat Hat and Special Guests

Dead Cat Hat is a local post-punk Americana band that makes its round in San Francisco and East Bay. Every Tuesday night they can be found at the Ivy Room, rocking it live. 

About Dead Cat Hat:

Allan and Pato of Dead Cat Hat Pato met in the summer of 2010 at a gas station that serves hamburgers in Benicia, and started playing each others songs as an acoustic duo later that year. In early 2011, they played a few open mics around the East Bay, and at Pirate Cat Radio in San Francisco for a small audience. Their first real gig was a four-set night at the famed Beckett's in Berkeley where they slammed through a solid sixty songs to a room full of drunken dancers. It wasn't pretty, but it was a good start, and we don't need to go into any details about what happened next. Read more.

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