mates of state was mates of state.
good show to see, they played a few new songs and had some additional
accompaniment in terms of a violin player for some songs.
and treasure mammal? i'll look them up.
but I got to see
calamity magnet when they went through austin.
household names opened but i missed most of their songs.
second opening band was
hollywood gossip, a morrissey sounding poppy band.
here's the thing though. halfway through alot of the songs
they changed the beat dramatically. it was strange, but
it held my attention, and i genuinely liked them.
especially the bass the girl was playing.
she had this rocket bass guitar.
if you look up super kicky awesome in the dictionary there's a picture
of
this right next to it.
after that
built by snow played. one of the guys actually handed out
some samplers of their music during the last rentals tour
since it has a close general sound to them.
so i've been wanting to see them for awhile
and wanted to see them when they released their ep awhile back
but never got to. so this was a treat. btw: their
free ep high energy, super pop. it was as if weezer and ozma had a baby.
which is funny because i've always thought of ozma as
if weezer and the rentals were having a baby. so take that for what it is.
they were great though.
and then
calamity magnet came up, i was expecting
more a country angled sounding rock but it
was more a rock angled sound with a dash of country and some bluesy sounding
guitar from their lead guitar joe.
they had a nice little rhodes piano too.
it was nice to hear them live, i haven't listened
to the ep yet, but the show was great and to me
it sounded alot better than the stuff that i've been listening
to on their
myspace page.
they also covered tom petty's american girl as an encore.
i figure if you have the guys working at emos singing along
you must be doing something right. it was nice talking to sara too.
I hope her and the band have a good rest of the tour.
and last night i got out to see
tilly and the wall.
to me it was pretty slow getting the crowd into it.
but after three or four songs people started syncing with the band.
personally i think it's the venue. (the granada in dallas)
fishboy played with another band the om nom noms?
i caught the last two songs of them, which sucks that i missed it.
for some reason the granada start shows pretty early.
previously i saw
fishboy and was pretty happy about the show.
but i didn't get to miss
man factory and their street fighter opera.
i'm not sure how you can make that combination seem so boring,
but it was a dull show. neither homoerotic nor kick ass.
but
tilly and the wall played some newer stuff. some old songs.
i still think the first time i saw them as being totally awesome.
but either the unfamiliarity of the new songs or the pace kind of
ranked it below from last time. or maybe it's the venue.
the granada is a fancy place and kinda feels like its catered to the kids.
hahah. there was never a line to the bar. guess that's a good thing.
back when the gypsy tea room was around i thought that was kick ass.
but i was told it was changed to a christian rock venue.
so maybe i need to just get out to different bars or something.
