MAN CAVE: Baby got Nickelback

POSTED: Monday, December 19, 2011, 12:00 PM

Filed Under: Man Cave

Man Cave is a testosterone-laden Monday feature that highlights the weekend haps of a pop culture-loving Philly dude.

There's a gentleman here in the Philly area who LOVES Nickelback. His name is Paul Tsikitas (pronounced sick-EAT-us), and, yes, you read that right: he loves Nickelback.

Generally speaking, Tsikitas is an Arcade Fire-loving, craft-beer drinking, independent film-watching hipster. However, if there's one thing he loves without discrimination, it's rock music. And when it comes to his favorite rock bands, he holds no prejudice against throatiness from the north.

This Saturday night, I managed to witness Tsikitas — the former lead singer of South Jersey-based band Noringo — proclaim his love for Nickelback in a very public fashion. I will protect the name of the venue, due to the local unpopularity of Nickelback (but you can figure it out pretty easily). Tsikitas found a stage, a band and an audience with which to dramatically sing his love for Chad Kroeger.

Before watching this video, you should know that — by all accounts — it is not meant to be sarcastic. Tsikitas, joined by fellow Noringo guitarist/Nickelback enthusiast George Szczepanski (Sheh-PANTS-ski) and a hired rhythm section, is quite outspoken and unapologetic about his fervor for the much maligned post-grunge rockers. If you wish to bash him for this, he openly invites all manner of comments on the video, both in condemnation or support of his very genuine Nickelback advocacy.

So please enjoy this video, and I would like to once again impress upon you: This. Really. Happened. And now that it's about to go viral, you should feel proud to live in a city where bizarre, passionate, and sometimes-hilarious live musical events occur — probably all the time.

One more time for the search engines: Paul Tsikitas loves Nickelback.

(ryan.carey@citypaper.net) (@slackerDIYtoday)

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