Wednesday, October 10, 2007
the most perilous of foes
The Skedaddlers started things off, and were a bit of a rarity for Shindig in a couple of ways. For one, they were sort of old. Before anyone gets offended by that, they weren't old enough for me to pass them on the street and notice, and they weren't old enough for me to offer my bus seat, but they weren't in their 20s, which is the Shindig norm. They also stuck out because they played a pretty straight ahead brand of rock. Think really old Wilco, Tom Petty, 54-40, and you get the idea. They didn't blow me away, but the musicianship was strong, they had some decent tunes, and there are far worse things to endure than a better than average bar band.
Hawaiian Bibles were a last minute fill-in after A Relative Distance dropped off the bill. For some reason, I was certain that they were called "Hawaiian Babies," until I actually got to the Rail, and I have to admit, I was a bit disappointed that their set didn't involve any tiny hula dancers. Thankfully, they didn't harp on the bible part either, but I couldn't really get into their songs.
Sometimes it feels like you can't throw a White Stripes CD without hitting a two-person, guitar and drums, blues band, but Treacherous Machete pulled out a few tricks to differentiate themselves from the pack (err... no pun intended). Even though Burnside has a pretty classic sounding croon, he never came across as overly serious. In fact, he was wasted, which was sort of awesome. The guys handle standard three chord blues pretty well, but they were at their best when they stretched things out, and got a bit noisier. Bonus points for bringing out an actual machete at the end of the night. Maybe it came in handy if the guy who mumbled "everyonnneezzz herrrrrree izzzz dead" after he found out the Skedaddlers hadn't won was serious.
Admittedly though, the best part of the evening was the wasted dude who danced right in front of the stage for every band.
JPNDRDS play next week!
the most perilous of foes
I'm actually a bit busy at work, which is a change, so I'll leave the news until tomorrow, and just give you a little recap of night two of round two of Shindig.
The Skedaddlers started things off, and were a bit of a rarity for Shindig in a couple of ways. For one, they were sort of old. Before anyone gets offended by that, they weren't old enough for me to pass them on the street and notice, and they weren't old enough for me to offer my bus seat, but they weren't in their 20s, which is the Shindig norm. They also stuck out because they played a pretty straight ahead brand of rock. Think really old Wilco, Tom Petty, 54-40, and you get the idea. They didn't blow me away, but the musicianship was strong, they had some decent tunes, and there are far worse things to endure than a better than average bar band.
Hawaiian Bibles were a last minute fill-in after A Relative Distance dropped off the bill. For some reason, I was certain that they were called "Hawaiian Babies," until I actually got to the Rail, and I have to admit, I was a bit disappointed that their set didn't involve any tiny hula dancers. Thankfully, they didn't harp on the bible part either, but I couldn't really get into their songs.
Sometimes it feels like you can't throw a White Stripes CD without hitting a two-person, guitar and drums, blues band, but Treacherous Machete pulled out a few tricks to differentiate themselves from the pack (err... no pun intended). Even though Burnside has a pretty classic sounding croon, he never came across as overly serious. In fact, he was wasted, which was sort of awesome. The guys handle standard three chord blues pretty well, but they were at their best when they stretched things out, and got a bit noisier. Bonus points for bringing out an actual machete at the end of the night. Maybe it came in handy if the guy who mumbled "everyonnneezzz herrrrrree izzzz dead" after he found out the Skedaddlers hadn't won was serious.
Admittedly though, the best part of the evening was the wasted dude who danced right in front of the stage for every band.
JPNDRDS play next week!
Labels: shindig, show recaps
1 Comments:
"so I'll leave the news until tomorrow"
Tomorrow? That's now how you spell "whenever I can stop listening to In Rainbows for five minutes"
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