Oct 6 2005
Cordial Invitation
Unlike Tuesday night, last night was alot of fun. Got there right before Cartel Cedars went on and went right up front to stake out a spot. They quickly came onstage, played (what I think was) a new song and followed up with "Fleets". It sounded great coming out the 930's soundsystem. The drums were absolutely banging and the keyboard flourishes sounded much more fleshed out than usual. The local boys put up a great set and looked right at home on that big stage. Hopefully this is a precursor of future 930 gigs for them. Also, they gave shouts to both bluestate and DCist, but strangely not to information leafblower dot com slash blog(kidding!), and that was much appreciated. Flickr's acting weird today so I can't link to my photos tagged with "Cedars", but just go to my photostream and check out my digital photos from last night.
In between sets, someone came up to me and asked me "Are you information leafblower?", so that was kinda wild. Ryan and his friend Marissa said they recognized me because I was using my new toy. They were both really cool and very friendly, so we made plans to go see Tom Vek at the Black Cat next month (Sunday, Nov 6th!!). I took about 13 photos with the fisheye, so hopefully I will take the rest of the roll this weekend and get them developed early next week.
Giant Drag were after Cedars and they were so much awesome. I had read somewhere that Annie, the singer, rants and raves alot on stage and she didn't disappoint last night. She was barely coherent during most of the set. It's hard to describe, but if you go read the bio on their website, you'll get the idea.
Anyhoo, they were great. So 90's alternarock, but in a good way. Annie, who is a total cutie BTW, plays guitar and Micah (who I couldn't get a decent picture of) plays drums and the keyboards. At. the. same. time. It was hard for me to decide who to watch, the do it all drumboardist or the cute girl with the guitar. I seriously recommend going to see this band if you get the chance.
I was pretty beat by that point in the night, so I skipped Stellastarr* and went home to play with The Mister.
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Comments
stellastarr* was not so good. imagine a cure cover band playing the rocky horror picture show soundtrack.
Posted by: kat at October 7, 2005 1:12 PM
Cedars gives you a shout on their website.
Posted by: Dumbek at October 8, 2005 3:52 PM
