Good Show

[ateolf]

Went to a show at Two Rivers with Mary Beth last night. It was a really good one. MPX was first and he put on a really good show. Very atmospheric, I wouldn't say "ambient" but something pushing kind of in that direction, moreso than usual. Bruiser was next and he was great as always. He was using a new ipad for samples and doing some really cool stuff with that! Adam Goodwin was last. He's a double bass soloist and he did some really awesome, abstract stuff. He's from Berlin (originally from Texas). I picked up a couple cds from him after the show: Adam Goodwin: Banishing Ritual and Squidlux: s/t. There was a decent crowd for a rainy Wednesday night in Memphis. Had a good time. Then there was work today. Not much to say about that. I forgot to mention in my last post how I started trying to do a little exercise the night before. Nothing much, just pushups and situps, but holy shit it's way worse than I thought. For the first time ever, I can't even do a fucking situp. Pretty bad. I mean, I can't do a real non-cheating pushup either, but that's expected and I could barely do them most of my life anyway (excepting the period when I was really working out some years ago). I can feel doms from the fake pushups I did so at least that's getting somewhere on track. I'll see if I can try some other things that might be beneficial.

Comments

[symbioid]

What type of venues do you see these shows at. I tend not to like big crowded things, but coffeeshops and arthouse type venues. We have 1 cool coffee shop that does some experimental (and I'm sure others, but haven't bothered looking).

When you play out is it smaller places like that?

[ateolf]

This show was at a small sci-fi/fantasy bookstore that a friend owns. Quite a few shows end up being there (though not sure how much long as she's likely going to be closing the store in the foreseeable future). Not all shows are there, some are at more regular venues (usually on the smaller side). I started my festival at this art gallery place. The first year it was in this one gallery but then they moved across the street to this newly renovated old Sears building and they have a bigger space for music (I mean, not huge but bigger).