weekend, w/ show review
How was my weekend, you ask? Splendid, thank you!
I did things like get my oil changed (it’s every nine months or 3000 miles, right? right?) and clean my apartment and turn my filing cabinet back into a filing cabinet instead of a piling cabinet. I got the same thing I always get at Taste of India, and checked out Life In Bed and Good Night, States at the Brillobox, as promised.
Life In Bed has had some lineup changes of late — the last time I saw them was last summer, and they were about to take on a new guitarist. Since then they’ve gotten a new bass player too, and they changes are pretty clear. It’s nice to see lineup changes actually change a band like that to an extent; it makes it obvious that there’s a certain amount of collaborative energy going on there.
Good Night, States sounded excellent, though they were rather tired from doing some recording. It was my first time seeing them live, finally. If I didn’t make it clear before, I like their album and think it’s worth checking out if you haven’t yet. There’s a certain complexity to the song structures that I didn’t even register that much upon my first several listens, but which makes it a fun record to listen to over and over.
The Slits are coming this Friday and I haven’t gotten a ticket yet. I bet they’re sold out, eh? Hrmmm.
If you’re lucky, I’ll soon be blogging about how much I hate electoral politics. Maybe.