Late shows on Monday nights: it's like, man, you're asking a lot of me. 7:30 doors open but the first band doesn't play until 9, well that's just selfish when you're charging $7 a beer. End result is getting home around 1:15ish on a work night.
So the upside is we saw all three acts last night. First up was Bridezilla, from Sydney. Basically, all a bunch of cutey pie girls with a stud model named Josh Bush on drums. Alto-sax + violin melodies usually aren't my thing but they managed to pull off some neat tricks so, we're cool.
The next act was the tough one to follow. Sleepy Sun from San Francisco is hands down the most psychedelic attempt to throw back to the 60's I've ever witnessed. Thank god the crowd wasn't the same way or I would have choked from the Patchouli. But as an act, they were actually totally sweet and at some points so ridiculously doing their thing that I just couldn't stop laughing. Not at them, but with them, and the whole concept that this was the way it used to be. High marks, check them out.
Autolux was very awesome too. Mixed set of material from the first album and the unreleased new album. I was a little bit surprised to see they had no lighting rig with them, something which I think was really big in all their early years and also incorporated when I saw them open for NIN. If I could do it over again I'd stand closer to Greg Edwards on guitar, rather than right in front of the bass, which puts up the better part of the fight when it comes to making noise. Carla on drums is also interesting to watch - nobody really plays traditional sticking on a kit anymore and I like how it forces her to come up with different fills to accompany that. Because coming up with new fills? Almost always happens by accident.
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