Hello, 05535 here.  Well that was a fun one, wasn’t it?

Because we love all of you so very much we did this.  Every night after Blowout in the sidebar there will be a page in which you can tell us who entertained you the most.  During Blowout you get to see a lot, but the flipside to that is you also miss a lot.  I look forward to finding out who is turning in good performances.

I didn’t see quite as much as I thought I was going to.  The reason for this though, is that I saw some really great stuff that I didn’t want to pull myself away from.  I made an attempt to start the night with Boywife at the Painted Lady.  They were slotted for 8:20, and were still loading shit in I think at 8:30.  Obviously they are not readers.

Darling Imperial were the best band I’ve seen in a really long time, and the sound at Bakers was surprisingly good  Putting a pretty girl front and center has been working for a long time for bands, but Darling Imperial went the extra mile to find one who could actually sing.  Turns out, this is a great idea.  They were handing out three song samplers to anyone who could grab one, and they promised a new EP soon.

You could make the argument that Last Tourist would fit really well somewhere on the FM dial.  As radio-friendly as they might be, a good song is a good song.  I thought the singer was great, and the band was a lot of fun.  I’m not sure how this would transfer once it was recorded, but I’m going to find out.

The Jesus Chainsaw Massacre.  It was honestly listenable, which is way more than I expected.  I walked in right as a staffer was instructing Bryan Metro that he was to keep his clothes on for the remainder of the set.  To combat the system, he put on a choir robe and removed his pants underneath, asked for a volunteer and recreated the Buffalo Bill dance from Silence Of The Lambs complete with makeup, background music, and dialog.  I’m not sure if the bass player even played, but I do know some people were mad.  Mission accomplished.

I only wanted to see a few songs from Bill Grogan’s Goat.  I can’t turn down Irish folk-rock, and they delivered exactly what they promised.  I had my whiskey, did my jig, and had my fun.  They’re playing the Lager House on parade day.  If you’re asking yourself “What’s parade day” then I cannot help you.

I was late to find out that To The Batcave was Ray from Oscillating Fan Club and Tony from The Grande Nationals.  That was enough to get me to Carbon.  This is also the time of the evening that everything starts getting kind of foggy.  Tony playing guitar is always something great to see, though.  So I think this was good.

I took a chance on Deastro because I’d heard a lot about him.  The honest review is that I bet someone who wasn’t as familiar with his material didn’t have as good of a time as I did.  The K of C hall just isn’t built for sound.  That’s no fault of Deastro, he’s still your favorite.  He also played Spritle live for the first time with a full band.  Did you like that one?  Good, I’ve got something for you.

Just as the K of C hall swallows sound, it also swallows people.  You find yourself there with a bunch of other people and you just sort of stay put because it’s the easiest non-shitty option.  Two bars, a lot of people, spacious bathrooms.  It’s like when Artex gets caught in the Swamps of Sorrow… I fucking did not just say that.

The Silent Years promised a 17 piece choir, but I only counted 12 I think.  You really phoned it in, Silent Years.  I love that guy’s two microphone deal.  More bands need two microphones.  Also, a lot of bands need zero microphones.  I was too drunk to remember anything about The Silent Years.  I remember having fun, though. WIN!

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