show review:
nacthyyaljismt:
iunno, was sitting in my car waiting for the line to die down.
thrones:
one man band armed with a drum machine, some samples, a heavily distorted bass, and lots of vocal effects. pretty cool doomy off time riffs with clean vocals and some feedback, but the 15 minute noise closer was the real cheese of this performance. very loud, very painful, but at the same time beautiful. this dude is worth checking out further.
boris:
okay apparently i haven't paid enough attention to my sole album from them (amplifier worship) because this band is fuckin AWESOME. first several songs were real groovy stonerish stuff and then the last 20 minutes was this absolutely epic performance that showed all the bands strengths: intense drums, great use of elongated crescendo, and e-bortion's woman (she's waaaaaaaaaay hotter in person
) making her guitar sing. i've decided that a les paul + orange full stack creates the best guitar tone known to man! i need more boris.
sunn O)))
okay. ummmm, yeah. you think sunn O))) are weird in album form? go see them live. one hour of NONSTOP drone, helped out by some dude on a moog (awesome), the crazy drummer from boris doing some screams and crucifying himself via crowdsurfing (awesome), and then that xasthur dude who came out and did some shrieking (awesome). the whole affair ended with stephen and greg literally worshipping their guitars, and then after the 60 minute eardrum punishment, it abruptly fell silent. very cool.
the crowd was really cool, one of the best i've seen in a long time. yeah most people just stood there but with a noise show it's all you can really do i guess. either way lots of crowd support for the 3 acts i saw, except toward the end of the sunn O))) set when some bitch and her asshole boyfriend got in a huge argument.
they had guinness on tap, i enjoyed a pint. gotta wake up in 4 hours. good night.
