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Jekyl and Hyde

Photo by Janet Donovan
Huey by Day: shown here with Mike Gallagher and Hilary Rosen at the Allbritton Brunch
Huey by Day: shown here with Mike Gallagher and Hilary Rosen at the Allbritton Brunch

By day he is the Vice President of The Entertainment Software Association; by night the lead singer in The Surreal McCoys. Translation: Erik Huey is a rock star that Hollywood on the Potomac has witnessed first hand from here to the Oscars weekend in LA.

Friday night they’ll be playing at Hill Country. What to expect? Check out this rocking interview with Famous DC: “It’s a real sweat-soaked rock-n-roll hootenanny. A lot of jumping around onstage and audience participation. I was talking to the comedian Sarah Silverman a while back and she asked me to describe our music. I said it’s sort of Johnny Cash meets The Clash. And she deadpanned “well, why don’t you just call it ‘Johnny Clash’”? So yeah, that pretty much nails it.”