The Beach

Looked at my modular to see if I could replicate the power issue from Friday night but I was not able to, which leads me to believe the power's just wonky in that weird house. Maybe I need to get some kind of battery supply if we're going to practice there. I also replaced the battery in my big muff so it was fun to just play with that again too. Mary Beth and I watched McCabe & Mrs. Miller which was good. Then I went up to a show at Beach House (the place I'd practiced the night before). I was a little early so for a while I'm standing there alone awkwardly like the old guy at the show. After a while Betsy and David and Phoebe showed up so I wasn't alone anymore. Also more people filled up the place anyway, diffusing what would have been awkwardness. I talk about this as if I'm complaining, I'm more just humorously observing. Being awkward doesn't bother me as much as it may have used to. Okay, so finally some music happened. Evangelion was first and eh. Kinda 80s centered beats and the music part was pretty good, but once the dude started singing... He was doing an over-the-top new romantic thing and it was pretty bad. It worked a little better on this one song they did where the other guy picked up a bass and they did this 80s funk thing. Model Zero was the second band. It was kinda cool 'cuz they set up in the other room. They were okay. At time they had a lot of promise. They backed a lot of songs with this old rhythm box drum machine and some synth, but they usually just forged on with some straight-ahead garage rock'n'roll over it. They did have at least one song I thought was really good. Overall, the bass player was too busy too. Last was Aquarian Blood and they were really good. Still a bit of the garage rock thing, but sufficiently noisy with interesting stuff going on. Kinda sorta similar to Nots in that regard (though their rock'n'roll bits are a bit more straightforward). Singer had two mics, one clean and one through delay she'd switch back and forth with. Both those bands had a big Lost Sounds influence looming over them. It was definitely a fun show. It was pretty hot inside the small rooms where the shows happened, but then real nice and cool outside. But then there were mosquitoes biting really bad outside. But then the main show room had an open window so they were there too. I did get a lot of bites, but I powered through. Fun show anyway. Yah.