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spoon_of_grimbo:
went to see Off With Their Heads in Leamington Spa last night, it was a pretty immense gig - got to meet up with some people i met at the fest in florida last year (and haven't seen since, til last night) and their friends, got slightly drunk (for the first time in a few weeks), thoroughly enjoyed 2 out of the 3 support bands (which is a better ratio of awesome:crap than any other gig i've been to in a while), and to top it all off, Off With Their Heads played pretty much the perfect set - all my favourite songs, only a couple i didn't really know - and i got to be right at the front of the small, packed venue for their whole set.

wow, that's a hell of a run-on sentence, with bad grammar to boot...

Catacombs:
Saw Modest Mouse last night.  When I got there, a band called Japanese Motors were playing.  They were pretty cool, and played fun, kind of poppy rock.  After them, a band called Mimicking Birds came on.  They were a three piece intricate folky band, and the singing reminded me a bit of Jim James from My Morning Jacket.  They were probably very good, but were hard to hear over the chattery crowd.  I would not have put them on after Japanese Motors tho, IMO, they were too different.

Then, with about 45 minutes between Mimicking Birds & them (15-20 minutes of which they didn't need), Modest Mouse finally came on.  They are pretty damn great live, and they played all kinds of stuff from their whole catalog.  I had a decent view (about 20 feet from Isaac Brock) and apart from the occasional douchebag "hey my friend is up there" pushing thru the crowd, an all around good show.  Except I had to leave 30 minutes early  :|

sean:
Okay so here is some concert reports from the past few days.

Monday night was basement punks @ the house of awesome times, in college park MD (by university of MD). The bands were The Fordists, Pansori, Osceola, and Suis La Lune (Lotus Fucker and Army of Kashyyyk probably played too but i left after suis.)

The Fordists are I guess kind of spazzy post-hardcore, kind of like Frodus. They were really fun and awesome and there is not much more to say about them. A very good band!

Pansori wasn't even on the bill, so I had no idea they were playing. There was also about an hour long gap betwee them and the Fordists, which sucked. But they also needed to set up four amps. Pansori is a lot like Envy, except from just going from quiet/post-rocky to post-rock paced hardcore, they go from queit/post-rocky to emo violence. They were insanely awesome. Plus they had a violin.

The next band, Osceola, is I guess just a straight emo band. Not to heavy, not to fast, but still some great stuff. I picked up a split by them since they were really the only band with merch. And they are playing again friday. And they played my favorite song by them first (Smile, its on their myspace, and its really a great track).

Then next was probably the main event of the night, Suis La Lune. These dudes are from Sweden and Monday night was the last night of their east coast tour. And my god, they tore up that basement. Before, nobody had really gone off since it was an older audience mostly (monday night duh) but people started going off during Suis. If you downloaded the Age Sixteen demo I posted a few weeks ago, Suis La Lune is somewhat like that, but with more jazzmasters. They are absolutely incredible and they played for probably over 40 minutes. It was amazing.

On Wednesday me and the kids drove down to Fredricksburg, VA to go see Romance of Young Tigers play. We drove down hoping to get there a little before the first band started but sadly even post-rock is affected by punk time. After being there an hour, the first act, this guy who goes by Gull, starts playing. Gull is a dude who plays drums, taps out mathy riffs on a tele, and sings reverberated vocals through a mic attached to a skeleton mask. And he does this all at the same time. It was one of the raddest things I have ever seen. If you ever get a chance to see this guy, I highly recommend it.

However, the rest of the night kind of went to shit. We needed to get the fuck outta Fredricksburg since its an hour away and since the show was on punk time we were only able to see 5 minutes of Romance of Young Tigers set. However, those five minutes were fucking stunning. Their music is so beautiful and live they are absolutely crushing. As we walked out of the house, they sounded so eerie. But it did suck so fucking much to leave as they played. I'll have to try extra hard to see them again.

Scandanavian War Machine:
Gull sounds fucking rad!

michaelicious:

--- Quote from: Objects inside Clouds on 26 Mar 2009, 15:15 ---However, the rest of the night kind of went to shit. We needed to get the fuck outta Fredricksburg since its an hour away and since the show was on punk time we were only able to see 5 minutes of Romance of Young Tigers set. However, those five minutes were fucking stunning. Their music is so beautiful and live they are absolutely crushing. As we walked out of the house, they sounded so eerie. But it did suck so fucking much to leave as they played. I'll have to try extra hard to see them again.
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YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Only 25pt because you only got to see 5 minutes.

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