Gig: April 16th, Ash Street Saloon
Mark your goddam calendar, Sally!
The Havzies!
April 16th!
Ash Street Saloon!
Doors 9, show 9:30!
$6 cover!
The Havzies (of which band I am a constituent part) will be providing rock-and-roll entertainment starting at approximately 10:30 or so.
Also on the bill:
Western Aerial
Vinegar
The Freemartins
It looks like it will be a really goddam fun time, so I insist that you attend. Use whatever means necessary to do so.
Seriously, attendence is mandatory.
And now, an editorial perspective:
It's a really weird mix of bands. I'm still a mewling diaper-clad infant in the gigging universe, so every experience we have is essentially new and overwhelming to my senses and sensibilities, but I still wonder if there comes a point where the shows become somewhat less weird. The previous show on March 2nd was strangeness wrapped in PBR -- we played after three bands that seemed to have just about zero in common with us musically. To be clear: it was a hell of a good time, regardless.
So now this show: these bands we're playing with on the 16th seem to be, if not in precisely the same neighborhood as us sonically, at least headquarted within the county limits. They are not super loud-hard-fast metally punk stuff, nor are they some guy from LA humping his amp with his Fender Squire. This seems like progress.
Western Aerial? They look/sound like a decent, loose rock band. Should be entertaining, certainly inoffensive rock from what they posted on their website. Cool by me.
Vinegar? They sound really polished. They also sound a little whiny faux-punk (like a former Backstreet Boy decided to start up a Green Day clone, maybe), but if it's catchy, good enough.
I'm still not sure what to make of The Freemartins, but I will acknowledge that I was probably being a wee bit hard on them. I should consider that they're probably a lot of fun live, regardless of the apparent vapidity of some of their songwriting. (The swirling flash presentation of said dog-log-bog rhyming doesn't help.)
So. Yes. Good. Setting aside the hungry fighting words of the neophyte, I see this show as a really good thing. Playing with some well-rehearsed bands that have some history and some press. Saturday night. Ash should be packed full of people in search of beer and good music. Fucking A.
Of course, if any of those bands turns out to suck, I'll turn this tiny blog about its tiny fulcrum and leave them tinily shredded. Broken down and bleeding on the floor, microcosmicly speaking.
I'm talking to you, Tobafett!
The Havzies!
April 16th!
Ash Street Saloon!
Doors 9, show 9:30!
$6 cover!
The Havzies (of which band I am a constituent part) will be providing rock-and-roll entertainment starting at approximately 10:30 or so.
Also on the bill:
Western Aerial
Vinegar
The Freemartins
It looks like it will be a really goddam fun time, so I insist that you attend. Use whatever means necessary to do so.
Seriously, attendence is mandatory.
And now, an editorial perspective:
It's a really weird mix of bands. I'm still a mewling diaper-clad infant in the gigging universe, so every experience we have is essentially new and overwhelming to my senses and sensibilities, but I still wonder if there comes a point where the shows become somewhat less weird. The previous show on March 2nd was strangeness wrapped in PBR -- we played after three bands that seemed to have just about zero in common with us musically. To be clear: it was a hell of a good time, regardless.
So now this show: these bands we're playing with on the 16th seem to be, if not in precisely the same neighborhood as us sonically, at least headquarted within the county limits. They are not super loud-hard-fast metally punk stuff, nor are they some guy from LA humping his amp with his Fender Squire. This seems like progress.
Western Aerial? They look/sound like a decent, loose rock band. Should be entertaining, certainly inoffensive rock from what they posted on their website. Cool by me.
Vinegar? They sound really polished. They also sound a little whiny faux-punk (like a former Backstreet Boy decided to start up a Green Day clone, maybe), but if it's catchy, good enough.
I'm still not sure what to make of The Freemartins, but I will acknowledge that I was probably being a wee bit hard on them. I should consider that they're probably a lot of fun live, regardless of the apparent vapidity of some of their songwriting. (The swirling flash presentation of said dog-log-bog rhyming doesn't help.)
So. Yes. Good. Setting aside the hungry fighting words of the neophyte, I see this show as a really good thing. Playing with some well-rehearsed bands that have some history and some press. Saturday night. Ash should be packed full of people in search of beer and good music. Fucking A.
Of course, if any of those bands turns out to suck, I'll turn this tiny blog about its tiny fulcrum and leave them tinily shredded. Broken down and bleeding on the floor, microcosmicly speaking.
I'm talking to you, Tobafett!
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