The Family Ghost show #43: Murphy's 2014/06/20

The show went pretty well. As our practice the week before was a little on the rough side, I was expecting it might go that way, but our playing at least exceeded the one practice we'd had. The other bands seemed genuinely into us so that's pretty cool. Setlist:
Death Blow
Visitant
Fall Behind
Battle Chant
A Series of False Starts
Lost Year
It'd been forever since we'd played at Murphy's. I was surprised the bartender still seemed into us after all these years. He's still super-nice too, of course. We played first. After us was Strengths and they were incredible. Pretty heavy mathy stuff. 2/3 were in Whose Army? and I think they were better than their previous band. Well, the previous band was hit-or-miss and while the stuff that hit was more up my alley than what Strengths does, Strengths were always on and they just nailed that shit. It was my first time to see them. It was my second time to see Vanishing Islands and I think liked them better this time (I liked them the last time too). Oh, and with technology as wonderful and fine as it is, here's the show!:

Other Stuff

After the show and unloading gear, Paul and Jacques and Mary Beth and I went and ate at the Pancake Shop. Seemed fine, but shortly afterwards I got a tummy ache. That combined with it making me wake up relatively early yesterday sort of put me out of commission for a bit of the late morning/early afternoon. Feeling sort of funky for a while. Jacques came over late and we went to Abyssenia. I didn't eat very much (a rarity for me, I know). Then Jacques and I worked on the back cover of the record for a bit. Frustrating that the best design software we've got is this old version of photoshop on this old desktop. Some basic windows 7 type shit it can't do and makes it tedious, but then nothing else can do the necessary design shit so. Not much else. Mary Beth and I have been playing a little bit of Dominion, finally she's caught up with me and is winning more. I guess I've lost it. Also watching old Parks & Rec episodes. Now getting ready. Swans and Xiu Xiu coming up! Oh, Mary Beth made pancakes and souffle this morning and I totally stuffed myself. And her pancakes are superior!