Billy Glitter at Chess Club Thursday, 9pm, 94 degrees Ah, Chess Club. In contrast to the tiny room’s dank and damp days as Plush, the venue was literally one of the coolest havens during Thursday’s kickoff of Hot Summer Nights. As Billy Glitter (led by William Grover) and his backing quartet leaned into their first cut – an instrumental laden with Sixties psych-jazz grooves similar to the standards of Grover’s recently dissolved ensemble, Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band – the A/C was hitting so hard that it was borderline uncomfortable.
