GWAR covers ‘West End Girls’ for AV Club, transitions into touching “People Who Died” cover

by | Oct 28, 2014

Richmond’s own GWAR returned to the Onion’s A.V. Club for a performance of Pet Shop Boys’ “West End Girls,” and it’s pretty ridiculous.


Richmond’s own GWAR returned to the Onion’s A.V. Club for a performance of Pet Shop Boys’ “West End Girls,” and it’s pretty ridiculous.

Have a look below:

If you can sit through the Pet Shop Boys cover, you’ll hear GWAR slip into Jim Carroll’s classic “People Who Died,” with a tribute to former bandmates Cory Smoot and Dave Brockie. It’s kind of touching in a terrifying way.

And speaking of Brockie and the AV club, check out the first time GWAR was in the Onion’s offices with their cover of Kansas’s “Carry on Wayward Son” – it is equally amazing and terrifying.

Brad Kutner

Brad Kutner




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