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FRIDAY - MAY 26TH - MR. CITY - CHICAGO
with: Coughs, Sword Heaven, Panicsville, Dynasty, some Spires
So, this was the BLOODYMINDED FISH FRY, an event to kick of the Coughs tour across America. BYOF, bring your own fish...or, butter your own front man. I think for many the main event of the night was to have Mark Solotroff covered in grease, but because that did not happen the night fell a little short of expectaions... for me at least. I was partially trying to see how many beers I could drink in a night but ran out of beers WAY too fast. Much of the evening was a blur. Panicsville played a pretty solid set that featured one of the dudes jumping up and down on matress spring frame amplified by contact mics and it sounded excellent! BLOODYMINDED played pretty early on in the night. MR. CITY is a couple of blocks north of LAKE STREET and I was gonna be pretty dissapointed if they didn't play that song. Luckily, they opened their set with it!! It went by pretty fast and for an instrumental moment I swore there were dance beats going on, somehow. It made me briefly contemplate the possibilities of the MC-202, especially after seeing David Reed work it a couple of months ago as well. It was neat seeing BLOODYMINDED play in the awesome basement setting of Mr. City with a mixed bill of bands and a diverse crowd of people who many I could see were experiencing BLOODYMINDED for the very first time. "Two Drops of Blood" and "Head." Oh dear, I will never get over those songs - I am so glad they exist...not much else to note about their set except when it was over I had completed my six pack of beer and there was a definite lack of (sorta per usual) 30 pack random beer mounds to scrounge from...bummer. Dynasty and some members of Spires that in the Sunset Rise played in the opposite corner sometime throughout the night but I was too distracted. Also knowing SWORD HEAVEN and THE COUGHS were going to play, I had my excitement devoted to them. Sword Heaven (as noted previously in this blog) played an awesome show in September in Chicago so I was looking forward to a ruthless assault of awesome, instead they were just...enjoyable. I wish they would have played for 20 min longer or so...oh well. Coughs ended the night, and let me tell you they are an awesome band. I like them even more than I like BLOODYMINDED and I am not even their #1 fan! That should be an indication of how incredible they are... So, READERS, they are on tour now...go see them when they come through your town!!! I have never seen them play a bad show, and even on their off nights they blow most bands out of the fucking water. I had gone to Mr. City a few weeks before and they surprised show goers by playing a handful of songs in their practice space, it seriously renewed my will to live! This show in comparision was kind of a dissapointment, maybe for a variety of reasons. The place was pretty crowded so I safely positioned myself away from sweaty bodies and behind the guitar amps...it sounded a little weird and went by in a flash, but maybe I was just really wasted, who knows. Either way it was an excellent night and there should be more loose bills of shows featuring different kinds of awesome Chicago bands and projects.
with: Coughs, Sword Heaven, Panicsville, Dynasty, some Spires
So, this was the BLOODYMINDED FISH FRY, an event to kick of the Coughs tour across America. BYOF, bring your own fish...or, butter your own front man. I think for many the main event of the night was to have Mark Solotroff covered in grease, but because that did not happen the night fell a little short of expectaions... for me at least. I was partially trying to see how many beers I could drink in a night but ran out of beers WAY too fast. Much of the evening was a blur. Panicsville played a pretty solid set that featured one of the dudes jumping up and down on matress spring frame amplified by contact mics and it sounded excellent! BLOODYMINDED played pretty early on in the night. MR. CITY is a couple of blocks north of LAKE STREET and I was gonna be pretty dissapointed if they didn't play that song. Luckily, they opened their set with it!! It went by pretty fast and for an instrumental moment I swore there were dance beats going on, somehow. It made me briefly contemplate the possibilities of the MC-202, especially after seeing David Reed work it a couple of months ago as well. It was neat seeing BLOODYMINDED play in the awesome basement setting of Mr. City with a mixed bill of bands and a diverse crowd of people who many I could see were experiencing BLOODYMINDED for the very first time. "Two Drops of Blood" and "Head." Oh dear, I will never get over those songs - I am so glad they exist...not much else to note about their set except when it was over I had completed my six pack of beer and there was a definite lack of (sorta per usual) 30 pack random beer mounds to scrounge from...bummer. Dynasty and some members of Spires that in the Sunset Rise played in the opposite corner sometime throughout the night but I was too distracted. Also knowing SWORD HEAVEN and THE COUGHS were going to play, I had my excitement devoted to them. Sword Heaven (as noted previously in this blog) played an awesome show in September in Chicago so I was looking forward to a ruthless assault of awesome, instead they were just...enjoyable. I wish they would have played for 20 min longer or so...oh well. Coughs ended the night, and let me tell you they are an awesome band. I like them even more than I like BLOODYMINDED and I am not even their #1 fan! That should be an indication of how incredible they are... So, READERS, they are on tour now...go see them when they come through your town!!! I have never seen them play a bad show, and even on their off nights they blow most bands out of the fucking water. I had gone to Mr. City a few weeks before and they surprised show goers by playing a handful of songs in their practice space, it seriously renewed my will to live! This show in comparision was kind of a dissapointment, maybe for a variety of reasons. The place was pretty crowded so I safely positioned myself away from sweaty bodies and behind the guitar amps...it sounded a little weird and went by in a flash, but maybe I was just really wasted, who knows. Either way it was an excellent night and there should be more loose bills of shows featuring different kinds of awesome Chicago bands and projects.
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