There’s an audio workshop at The Bridge this afternoon which sounds really fun; Jesse says: “in the spirit of the surrealist games. We give you 10 sounds and you have 30 minutes to mash those into a one-minute piece.” 

The workshop begins at 2pm, for those who have their own means of editing digital audio; (Jesse also adds: If you want to participate but don’t have a workstation, please contact Jesse or Erik and we’ll do our best to find you a loaner.)  Or if you just want to show up and hear the results, the pieces will all be played in a concert at 3:15pm. I’m fairly certain that performance is Free.

Later on tonight, there’s a show at the Tea Bazaar; I’ve just found out minutes ago that The Invisible Hand has been added to this bill, making this Adam & Thomas’ third gig in as many days! (after just getting back from tour, no less.) I missed the Hand’s appearance at SERP on Thursday due to illness, so I’m excited to hear them tonight! They’re the best band in town, so it’s always unwise to pass up an opportunity to see those guys kick some musical ass.

Also sharing the bill are two bands from Athens; Quiet Hooves and Bubbly Mommy Gun.  Although I’ve never seen Quiet Hooves play, I have heard them before; if I’m not mistaken, I somehow drunkenly woke up with a CD-R of theirs in my pocket after the first time Dark Meat played here, so I’m assuming that the band is DM-related in some way (there were a lot of people in Dark Meat back then…) However, their material, judging by the contents of the CD-R, is much more mellow and sensitive. The other band on tonight’s bill is also from Athens, so one could assume they’re traveling in similar circles; on the other hand, the band does have the rather unfortunate band name of Bubbly Mommy Gun; (I’m tempted to accuse them of using that random-word-generator that a lot of bands seem to be using to pick their names these days, but even that might be a little too generous.)

Then again, all the bands that Dark Meat has brought here before (including Mouser and One Man Machine) have both been exceptionally great, so its more likely that all three of tonight’s bands will also be socks-knockingly excellent and I’ll have to eat my words (although preferably not any of the words in that band name). Apparently some of these guys run a venue in Athens called the Secret Squirrel, which I’m told is the place to play in Athens, so they seem to know what they’re doing. It should be really interesting and worthwhile; doors at 8:30, music around 9:30ish, and the cover should be cheap ($5-ish).