Seven Sunless Days Shoots, Scores!

[alonewiththemoon]

Seven Sunless Days put on an amazing show with the addition of mvoid on drums, and were rewarded for their awesomeness by making it to the next round of Emergenza shows! yay!!! M thanks all of you who attended and deeply appreciates your support. It really meant a lot to him to see friends in the crowd, looking out from the stage to see us all there. He's going to find out tonight when the next show will be--I suspect it won't be until after the new year, since I think Emergenza has round 1 shows scheduled pretty much up to christmas.

Serious props to mvoid for his drumming--he made it sound like the RM1X was following him. It really is a wonderful expansion to the band's sound, and in a way it highlights the electronics more to have the organic sound of the drums next to them. I'm looking forward to hearing lots more of this!

It was odd being out at a general rock show, something I haven't really done in a long time. Most events I go to are either goth or belly dance/Arabic in nature, which I'd say have more in common with each other than they do with the rock crowd. For one thing, the bathrooms stay cleaner at the former events ;) The other bands ran a range of styles, but one thing they mostly had in common was that they were way too over-thought and technically oriented--there was a distinct lack of vitality and soul in the room much of the night. I liked Tim Heroux and his band--although they had a bit of a one trick pony feel to them, they were entertaining. And I sincerely found the crow makeup hairtossing goth metal band at the end of the night (can't remember their name) very refreshing--they were young and they pulled every cliche in the book, but you knew their hearts were in it and they weren't overintellectualizing anything (despite singing one song in what they said was German). Also, the guys in the band Cutthroat Island are jerks--one of them actually *stood* on the RM1X, breaking some knobs off, and didn't apologize or offer to pay if it was broken, even when confronted directly by M. Unfortunately, they're continuing on as well, but hopefully not on the same night as SSD next time.

Happily ran into my brother and crematia13 on the sidewalk outside the Middle East after the show--they'd been seeing Scissorfight downstairs. We should run into each other at odd hours more often!

OK, now to dance, bake an apple pie because I feel like baking and I have a bunch of apples, sew a skirt, and wait for M to come home from an Emergenza band meeting so that we can have an actual evening together like normal married people do. Yay!

Comments

[mvoid.livejournal.com]

thanks for the props! :-)

i actually enjoyed the goth metal band at the end as well - at least for what they were. if they didn't talk between songs it would've been even better... one of the singers looked enough like paul stanley from kiss that i wanted to go draw a star on his eye to finish his makeup.

[sbazzy.livejournal.com]

glad to hear that SSD did so well! i'm also glad to hear you liked Tim's band. Tim is a friend of mine and i love his music and love watching him play guitar, as he's somewhat of a virtuoso. he's playing guitar with another band tonight at TT's that i'll be going to.

really sorry i didn't make it out - i had a roller derby business meeting all night :-/

[developer.livejournal.com]

Maybe we should go Cutthroat Island's next round and vote agianst them.

Sorry to miss the show, but glad to hear it went well.

[sittingstill.livejournal.com]

I was so happy I could be there. They sounded terrific, and I'm a fan of live drums in general--and nice to see this live drummer specifically. ;) I totally agree about the complement/contrast effect of live drums and electronics. All I can say about the bands immediately preceding and following SSD would be... thank heavens for earplugs. Not that I didn't wear them for SSD as well, but I really resent losing my hearing to the excesses of bands I don't even like. (And on the nature of earplugs in general, I found it interesting that neither M nor I--not wearing earplugs--could understand Daniel Ash last Sunday, but you--wearing earplugs--could!)

I can't say that the crowd really compared to most of the rock shows I've been to more recently--or maybe fans of bands like the Douglas Fir and Ad Frank and Francine are just better about bathroom cleanliness, too! (I will say from experience earlier that evening that the Paradise women's room has three stalls... and two stall doors.)

The next round, whenever it happens, is again audience vote, yes?

Glad to see there are apples being put to good use!

the odd hours we keep indeed!

[crematia13.livejournal.com]

It was great running into you outside and at the red light! Wonder if that guy ever DID turn his lights on or if if did the disturbing thing your brother advised to him. If you missed it, we can tell you at Thanksgiving! Looking forward to seeing you then and catching up :)

[spitcurl.livejournal.com]

So bummed to miss this! Always bummed to miss seeing them play. But I'm thrilled that people outside the goth rock scene were as blown away and into them as we are. I hope they do another show with mvoid soon so I can experience his addition to the band!

Yay. :)

[alonewiththemoon]

Ah, I knew that I knew his name from somewhere! They were a ton of fun to watch, the bass player looked like a 1930s cartoon wolf, in all the best ways :)

Re: the odd hours we keep indeed!

[alonewiththemoon]

we heard what C. said--we were also glad to see the guy get back in the car ;-) They did turn their lights on, they drove behind us for a few blocks which had us a little worried until they turned before we did!

hey, we could use xmas lists from you guys...

[sbazzy.livejournal.com]

They were a ton of fun to watch, the bass player looked like a 1930s cartoon wolf, in all the best ways :)

their bass player is Jack Hanlon, who is somewhat of a legend in the northeast rockabilly scene. he plays with Tim, he and Tim both play with Johnny Carlevale (jump blues, old style rhythm & blues) and Jack also plays with about a billion bands. i saw him play sets with 4 bands in the same day at a big all-day rockabilly show this summer. he used to play with the Amazing Royal Crowns in Providence. i adore watching him play bass.

your description of him as a 1930s cartoon wolf is nothing short of perfect!

[alonewiththemoon]

I just got the comment notification on this, in LJ's wierd way--but it's still timely, because you can see them all this Saturday at 7:15 at the Zeitgeist!