ateolf | Show

During my lunch break I finished reading The Hundred Brothers by Donald Antrim and it was really good. Then at night, we had a great show up at Havenhaus. It was a show where everything conspired to make it run really late (I'm always trying to be pretty punctual with shows and even broadcast the estimated start time of each set beforehand). For one thing, two of the artists played for 45 minutes for their 30 minute sets! (And when it hit 45 minutes for the second time and the person was about to keep playing, I had to go up and tell them that was time. I hate doing that, but there have to be some limits, especially when it's well past the limit.) There was a pretty decent turnout. Hard to tell exactly how many people were there for the show because they had some sort of activist meeting in the space right before and a few friends hung around, some pushing people to sign a thing for stopping xAI (which I'm all for that, though it's a little weird when outside things are set up at a show like a fair or something). And a couple people I know just wandered in from the street hearing the show and not knowing what was going on, which is cool. The sets were all great. Shake Machine Down had his little Crayola 3d-light-bright-lookin' toy with a camera fed into a laptop for his projections and that thing's cool. His wife (Katherine, I think her name is, trying to get it down right) was running the video stuff and moving the camera around at times and stuff. Real cool video stuff. Also a really great set! neon glittery was next and she was really good, she seems to always be getting even better and better. B|_ank was next, he'd come here earlier in the year with his minimalist/ambient project (playing as William Todd) and this is his main project and it's very different. It's drums triggering electronics and a good bit noise rock (he has past and upcoming shows with Lightning Bolt and Melt-Banana and that grouping fits). So it's awesome drumming and other sounds and it's pretty intense and awesome! It was a really good show and everyone there was into it. Last it was Outside Source and his set was also really good. I picked up a B|_ank t-shirt. What else? I guess that probably gets it all. It was a good time!