There’s a show at Random Row Books tonight that looks pretty interesting; the headliners are White Suns from Brooklyn, who initially got in touch with me through former Cville resident / awesome drummer / all-around nice guy Matthew Clark, which is already a pretty high recommendation in my book. The show is also gonna feature Richmond Charlottesville band Comparative Anatomy; that band includes a guy named Stan, from whom I get occasional informative emails about noise stuff happening in the VA area, so I’m excited to check them out (Stan also insists that we stop referring to Comparative Anatomy as a “metal band,” although I’m 99% sure we’ve never written about them before… [actually, it turns out we mentioned this Outback show last Oct.] however, he does say the band features “grind influence,” two bass guitars, animal sound effects, etc, so fans of “extreme” music may be interested.)
Tonight’s bill will also feature cville’s own Rhythm Bandit (whom I believe will be making his recorded debut on a compilation on Stan’s Mind Flare Media label in the near future…) There’s also a band called Nurse Beach who were added to the bill too late to get their name on the flyer (They seem to be from Charlottesville but I’ve never heard of them before.) Doors are at 8pm, bands start at 9:30, and the cover is $5.
I’d really like to go check that out, but unfortunately I’m stuck at home with some pretty nasty food poisoning, so you’ll have to investigate on my behalf and let me know how it goes.
Oh, and after that show you’re probably going to want to go check out the Rock Show at the SERP House (no kidding) which Gary just let me know about… if you’re at RR you’re probably gonna miss the first two bands (the “Boom Orangutangs” at 10pm and the High Fives at 11), but you can probably still catch the Caninos at midnight and the Invisible Hand at 1:00am. The last time the Hand played a frat party, I guess it was sort of a dubiously crazy success … (I mean, I had a lot of fun; not sure how many actual frat dudes were enjoying it, but at least they weren’t as openly hostile as they sometimes can be); Gary says: “This one is in the basement, which I prefer over upstairs shows in every way (it’s less weird this way too)” and I’m strongly inclined to agree.
SERP is the one between the A-school at the Art Museum, facing the mud bowl and flanked by two fraternities with significantly lesser reputations in Charlottesville music history. Traditionally, I believe one has to get someone to “vouch” for them at the Frat Party, but last time I just showed up with the band and said I knew the Caninos and all was kosher. Have fun!
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1 James // Mar 4, 2010 at 1:21 pm
So it looks like tonight is all set to be a fairly raucous night for music and partying. Oh, the fun I’d be having, if I weren’t at home throwing up… I could be across town, throwing up for different reasons!
2 adam brock // Mar 4, 2010 at 5:49 pm
I’ll throw up for you, James. I was planning on throwing up anyway.
3 Chris T. // Mar 5, 2010 at 12:30 am
Left early the RRB gig early and only caught the first two bands. Nurse Beach were awesome. Felt a Suicide/Fuck Buttons/Liars vibe to it and totally clicked with it. Can’t say the same thing about Comparative Anatomy. Not really likin their sense of humor. Not goin to say much else; wasn’t my cup of tea. Should have stayed for the other bands but things came up. Wanna hear feedback on how those bands worked out.
4 Eyeball // Mar 5, 2010 at 1:57 am
Can’t say I agree with that. I thought all the bands did really good. My only complaint with Comparative Anatomy was the one guy’s cord unfortunately screwed up for one of the songs but he fixed it. Still, I thought they were hilarious. The visuals were awesome and their costumes were impressive. Very interesting sound too, good to see something like that coming out of Charlottesville!
5 Holly M. // Mar 5, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Here are my thoughts! Nurse Beach was pretty good, I think they need a little work and the bass was a bit loud, but I think they have potential. They had some catchy riffs.
Comparative Anatomy was spectacular. Other than a cord issue their live set was very engaging and original! Very funny too, I’m not sure I understand how you couldn’t like their sense of humor. It’s so obviously cute and dumb that you can’t help but laugh. The movies they made were also incredible. Cool music with lots of neat grooves!
White Suns were intense. I liked how they played in the crowd and they had a lot of pedals for different effects. Some of the guitars were a little too harsh for me, but overall I really liked them. They also used two drums with different effects that was interesting. The only problem I had with that was that sometimes it was hard to make out the effects because of how close they were. You would only hear them actually hitting the drum instead of the effect it made through their speakers.
Rhythm Bandit was great as well! His usage of the different sampling pedals, I think that’s what he uses, was really cool. My only complaint is that he should maybe cut his set in half. The music is excellent but it can get kind of repetitive as he goes on because it all seems to be improvisation. Good improv, but it was kind of long. I really like him though! So those are my thoughts on the show, looking forward to seeing some of these bands again!
6 James // Mar 5, 2010 at 1:59 pm
oops, somebody’s short response to Chris T. got accidentally deleted as I was approving messages /deleting spam …. sorry!
thanks for the comments everyone. wish I could have been there.
How did the SERP gig go?
7 gary // Mar 5, 2010 at 7:35 pm
badly
8 Sir Puffers // Mar 5, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Hey, I want to thank everyone for leaving good/bad comments about the show, we appreciate any feedback (Comparative Anatomy). Also want to thank James for putting this up here so people saw it and so forth. Really appreciate everyone who took the time to come out on a Thursday for all the bands, had a lot of fun playing. Sorry my dang cord went bad the second song, of course such things always happen the day of a show. No more cheapos for me! We still need to polish our live presence a bit, but for our first show back after about five months, I think it all went well and I enjoyed all the other guys.
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