65 posts tagged “concerts”

Shows like every freakin' night! This is getting brutal! There's also a show tomorrow night at Ian's house and a show the night after at Neurolux.

Tonight was The Old Haunts (A Kill Rock Stars band featuring Tobi Vail from Bikini Kill; they sound like a more punk rock Old Time Relijun), Batman Vs. Predator (an awesome drum & bass noise/grind band), The Donna Vulture (straight-up New York Dolls style rock 'n' roll from here in Boise) and Sacco & Vanzetti (who sound kinda like something Plan-It-X would put out; they're basically my friends, Jake, Charles, and Ian, who also happens to be Erik's brother).

The show was a lot of fun. People really got into the touring bands. I thought the floor was gonna collapse under the weight of so many people dancing on it, and The Old Haunts' bassist had to move into the hallway by the kitchen because the room was so crowded he couldn't stand in it without getting run into by people dancing. The locals were a lot of fun. It was the first time I'd seen either of them. All in all, it was a good night.

Trash Talk played in a garage in Meridian. Also, The Carrier, Unhallowed, and another two bands whose names I can't remember (sorry!), and it was a good-ass time.

Went to the Palm Reader show tonight.

It was shaping up to be a good'un.

Adam and Rob played acoustic sets. Rob's was three songs long and included a Robert Johnson cover, except turned into an ovaltine commercial. Adam's was longer, and really good. Only played one song off the Drip Drip Drop CD, but the others were all cool, too.

A band called Amo Joy from Indianapolis played. They were impossibly twee and fun as hell.

Palm Reader remembered to bring the 4-track, and actually started recording.

They got a few minutes of good-ass jam in.

Doug Martsch came out to see them.

And the fucking neighbor came over to complain and the whole thing got shut down. Lame.

Got nice and drunk with Robbie and Cade after the show. That was nice. Made some nice sounding plans for future parties. Stuck around, sobering up, 'til about 4 AM and gave Cade a ride home. I introduced him to Spiritualized, Yo La Tengo, and Times New Viking. I have no idea whether he was sober enough to remember any of them. Keep in mind that this guy used to be a Mormon. Guess he just understands how much more fun corruption is.

Got some nice sounding plans for tomorrow.

Got some good plans for this month. Totalitarian family face-melting, etc.

Sorry to The Heavenly States for missing your show.

Maybe next time, assuming your turnout was better than Tyler's house's, and there is a next time.

...Who Calls So Loud (ex-Portraits of Past/Funeral Diner) May 17^th (thanks to IllicitBeef for the heads-up on that).

65daysofstatic May 24^th.

Ceremony May 26^th.

Casiotone For the Painfully Alone May 30^th.

Russian Circles June 8^th.

Totalitarian Family (Palm Reader/Mystick Crystal Revelations) June 16^th (we're playing that!) at Tyler's house, and maybe at Baby Sale house June 13^th (Palm Reader alone might be playing that, not us).

I think it's awesome that there even is a house called Baby Sale.

Here's the pics and the review. I'm much too lazy to post it all here, as well, so go read it there if you're so inclined.

I didn't get any pictures of Blacklisted or Genghis Tron because Blacklisted started a half hour early and I wasn't there for most of their set and I was too far away to get any good pics during Genghis Tron's set. Also, Converge is the single hardest band on Earth to take pictures of. Especially when your camera's battery is getting ready to croak. Seriously! Those dudes don't stop moving! Ever! Anyway, this was the best show Idaho has ever seen. Genghis Tron, Baroness and The Red Chord (who I didn't think I'd like nearly as much as I did) killed it. Converge killed it even harder. I caught Blacklisted's last couple songs, and they played pretty good straight up hardcore. Basically, this show ruled, and I feel incredibly sorry for anyone who wasn't there. Writeup over on W♥M will be up sometime tomorrow!

Saw Jeffrey Lewis and the Jitters. Or rather, the Jitter. Helen was the only one of them left on the tour. And I saw them twice. Was a damn fine day.

Saviours were mind-blowing. So was Fu Manchu. That other band touring with 'em wasn't as good, but weren't terrible, either.

I would post pictures later, but I accidentally left my camera at home. Bummer.

+ New York Dolls! They sounded pretty good, despite only having two living original members.
- They played a lot of songs off the new album. Those songs were terrible.
+ They also played lots of old songs!
- David Johansen obviously stuffs his jeans. Also, he has a nasty muffin top.
+ They played "Personality Crisis" for the encore.
- They also played a new song to close the show and destroyed the momentum they could've left the stage with in doing so.

Also, the security guards went nuts kicking people out. The crowd was visibly bored when the band played new songs. Erik and Chris and Alex heckled them. "Buster" was the word of the day. Their drummer is also in Dirty Pretty Things. That's kinda lame.

Oh, and let us not forget how unkind the 80's were to a lot of the people involved. This video is very related to the rest of the post:

I have a free ticket to see the New York Dolls tonight!

So I guess I'll go.

I wish the Sleazy weren't a bunch of shitheads about bringing cameras in, 'cause I'd  love to have pictures for you later, but I'm not gonna complain too hard.

They're really desperate to fill this show. Two of my friends have lots of free tickets, and the price was recently slashed to 16 bucks.

I'm pretty stoked.

Oh, and for those who haven't already friended my rad homies over at W♥M, I just posted an article on Indian Summer, a band I like, mere minutes ago!