Concert Central

an unnamed banjo player opened (Carousel Lounge…) – a shabby fellow totally entranced with himself – actually played several rootsy instruments, was really excited to see Bee vs. Moth because described as ska, post-punk, jazz, etc. but after being two hours late they were definitely more jazz than the two former, I didn’t stay for the majority of the show so may be an unfair judgment, they were a hopped up Miles Davis, very freeform, assume they’re good musicians, need to see again

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this is not who played (Carousel Lounge!), was a lone middle-aged cowboy with a posse of three young girls and more of a moody rock aura than country, struck me as a singer/songwriter whose songs you know are good if only he had a band backing him and somebody who could sing except that he [...]

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pleasant surprise because have had their CD courtesy of BestGirlfriend’s ExHusband for years and have always liked it, reminiscent of my personal gods: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, found their live show captivating though may have just been suiting my mood, baseball-hatted man crouched over his pedal steel and glancing at a laptop (the source of [...]

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three Hawaiian-shirted guys and one obnoxious self-obsessed gypsy girl, big tatted upright bass for a tatted man, pedal steel (theme of the night), mini guitar for the gypsy girl, steel-plated guitar, jangly Hawaiian jazz swing, pretttty basic but I guess that’s the point, did one super fast song that was impressive, in the end the gypsy girl had a nice voice to complement the male vocalist, kept making me think of those old movies…

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Heather Rae’s lover Shannon was playing bass – odd to see him out of his cowboy hat and in punk mode, the lead singer was a crowd motivator and maneuvered some kind of red-sea-divide of the crowd though with no purpose that I could see, joyous and young, even some half-hearted crowd diving

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Irish punk mixed with Texas rockabilly, distinctive because had a banjo and a fiddle, the fiddler was the only bandmember with a mohawk and we joked that his unmanly instrument drove him to it, good band

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straightforward punk rock band, singer had incongruent shades on, mostly cringing at the young crowd – actually not as bad as it normally is

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this really disturbing lead singer, not an ounce of pretension, wearing a white v-neck sweater with trim on the neck and cut-off sleeves with a vest, sizeable nose, seemed an excellent guitar player, couldn’t quite put my finger on music genre, quality but not really interesting, little swampy maybe?

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tribal drums, some groove, but all energy concentrated on taking the pop out through stop-start punkish vocals or straight screaming, so I dub it art rock, verging on good

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11PM band: was supposed to be Tia Carrera but was this horrid geek band, two on guitar, one screecher on keyboards and the worst: a silly jouncy girl singing (just as the lame girl ruined WT Special), they were like those bands with exclamation points in their name, harder than you expect but then all childish and punctuated with little yells

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