More music I saw
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dougo, the only quintuple penultamour I know, at TT's to see The Octopus Project. I liked about half of what they played, and suspect I would have liked them more in a more sound-friendly venue.
I really liked their presentation, vaguely captured in this crappy iPhone shot, involving ambient video that included some simple, delightful hand-drawn animation. I assume it was by someone in the band, because those masked critter-props on stage had the same visual style. I now wish I'd asked one of the band about the animation while Doug was buying their CD. Oh well.
Was tickled that the video also included clips from the classic macabre bicycle safety film One Got Fat, a.k.a. that really weird thing with the kids in monkey masks.
Before them was Jeans Team, which is a couple of crazy German doodz with some really fun small-scale Euro-industrial that made Doug wonder if they're retro, or if Germany is just still doing that. I enjoyed them.
Because I'd played Rock Band atmrmorse's place for six hours the day before that, the sight of a hyperkentic blonde pretty-boy with silver-lamé pants playing next to a more staid fellow dressed like your high school biology teacher made me think "someone's been having fun with the character editor".
They were out of earplugs at the bar! I stood up close to the crazy Germans because the sound was mostly bassy and didn't rise above chest-level, but had to fade back into the hall to escape head-on Octopus noise. I'll get some plugs at CVS or something before the next time I go to something like this. (And, yes, my ears went back to normal a day after that last show, just like you all said it would. Thanx!)
dougo, the only quintuple penultamour I know, at TT's to see The Octopus Project. I liked about half of what they played, and suspect I would have liked them more in a more sound-friendly venue.I really liked their presentation, vaguely captured in this crappy iPhone shot, involving ambient video that included some simple, delightful hand-drawn animation. I assume it was by someone in the band, because those masked critter-props on stage had the same visual style. I now wish I'd asked one of the band about the animation while Doug was buying their CD. Oh well.
Was tickled that the video also included clips from the classic macabre bicycle safety film One Got Fat, a.k.a. that really weird thing with the kids in monkey masks.
Before them was Jeans Team, which is a couple of crazy German doodz with some really fun small-scale Euro-industrial that made Doug wonder if they're retro, or if Germany is just still doing that. I enjoyed them.
Because I'd played Rock Band at
mrmorse's place for six hours the day before that, the sight of a hyperkentic blonde pretty-boy with silver-lamé pants playing next to a more staid fellow dressed like your high school biology teacher made me think "someone's been having fun with the character editor".They were out of earplugs at the bar! I stood up close to the crazy Germans because the sound was mostly bassy and didn't rise above chest-level, but had to fade back into the hall to escape head-on Octopus noise. I'll get some plugs at CVS or something before the next time I go to something like this. (And, yes, my ears went back to normal a day after that last show, just like you all said it would. Thanx!)
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