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Show Things
Sep. 1st, 2024 12:02 pmIn the afternoon, Mary Beth and I went up to Sheet Cake gallery for this bookstore pop-up shop, it was this pop-up seller that has lots of art books. So we got to look at that and their current exhibit. Then we got ready to go to the show at the Lamplighter at night!
It was a very good show. And it was probably the most well-attended regular Memphis Concrète show ever. (Biggest thanks in that regard went to the flutists Jenny, Phil, Nave, and Jennifer and their friends!) Mary Beth even made a honey cake to share with people and it was delicious and nice! So drrtgrrl was up first and had a very awesome set, kinda noisy industrial pop. They're big in the drag scene which came through as their makeup was pretty intricate and awesome. Really good set.
Next up was Eudaimonia Flute Quartet! It's all who I mentioned above. I initially asked about if.else playing (which is Jenny and Phil) but it happened that their other two friends were in town and they thought they'd go full on quartet! They ended up playing Phil's adaptation of Music for Airports that they played last year! So it was awesome to hear it again and this time in a place like the Lamplighter! You know, it's flutes so it's not like the loudest most blaring thing, but the audience (and I'll say again, big for an MC show audience, and really a decent crowd by anyone's standards for a show at the Lamp, pretty much all the seating area was taken up) was as quiet as could be and totally rapt. It's pretty rare that during a show at a bar there isn't at least SOMEONE that just talks through the whole thing. And here we had this quiet ambient music from flutes and it was very nice.
Next it was Drekka and his set was very good as always. Lots of cassettes and small clinky percussion and drones and blue lights. I've seen Drekka a good number of times now and it's always good, so I've probably said much of what's to be said before! Yeah!
And last it was Art Edmaiston with saxophone through electronics. He was a last minute replacement for Ihcilon, who I would have loved to see again, but it worked out very well and he was very good. Some free jazz solo sax (and he had two, going between I think a tenor and a soprano) and a bit with a big thumb piano. So a nice mix of jazz and abstract electroacoustic music. Really good stuff! I'd seen him play plain sax but never with the electronics and he had really interesting layers.
After the show I picked up some merch from Drekka. Some random cds he was carrying along: v/a: Perception, Turn Pale: Kill the Lights, and Boy Dirt Car: The Circus of Humanity. It was quite the rare event that the show made enough money to pay the touring artist well and have some left over for the locals. Most refused but still that's a nice thing to have happen.
After we got home Peanut came and greeted us on the deck so we hung out with her for a little bit. I'd noticed for a while that she seems to really just want to play so I tried out bring a stick-string-feather toy to play with her and she was very into it for a while. Later when she was done though, it didn't quite abate her desire to bite and scratch but oh well!
It was a very good show. And it was probably the most well-attended regular Memphis Concrète show ever. (Biggest thanks in that regard went to the flutists Jenny, Phil, Nave, and Jennifer and their friends!) Mary Beth even made a honey cake to share with people and it was delicious and nice! So drrtgrrl was up first and had a very awesome set, kinda noisy industrial pop. They're big in the drag scene which came through as their makeup was pretty intricate and awesome. Really good set.
Next up was Eudaimonia Flute Quartet! It's all who I mentioned above. I initially asked about if.else playing (which is Jenny and Phil) but it happened that their other two friends were in town and they thought they'd go full on quartet! They ended up playing Phil's adaptation of Music for Airports that they played last year! So it was awesome to hear it again and this time in a place like the Lamplighter! You know, it's flutes so it's not like the loudest most blaring thing, but the audience (and I'll say again, big for an MC show audience, and really a decent crowd by anyone's standards for a show at the Lamp, pretty much all the seating area was taken up) was as quiet as could be and totally rapt. It's pretty rare that during a show at a bar there isn't at least SOMEONE that just talks through the whole thing. And here we had this quiet ambient music from flutes and it was very nice.
Next it was Drekka and his set was very good as always. Lots of cassettes and small clinky percussion and drones and blue lights. I've seen Drekka a good number of times now and it's always good, so I've probably said much of what's to be said before! Yeah!
And last it was Art Edmaiston with saxophone through electronics. He was a last minute replacement for Ihcilon, who I would have loved to see again, but it worked out very well and he was very good. Some free jazz solo sax (and he had two, going between I think a tenor and a soprano) and a bit with a big thumb piano. So a nice mix of jazz and abstract electroacoustic music. Really good stuff! I'd seen him play plain sax but never with the electronics and he had really interesting layers.
After the show I picked up some merch from Drekka. Some random cds he was carrying along: v/a: Perception, Turn Pale: Kill the Lights, and Boy Dirt Car: The Circus of Humanity. It was quite the rare event that the show made enough money to pay the touring artist well and have some left over for the locals. Most refused but still that's a nice thing to have happen.
After we got home Peanut came and greeted us on the deck so we hung out with her for a little bit. I'd noticed for a while that she seems to really just want to play so I tried out bring a stick-string-feather toy to play with her and she was very into it for a while. Later when she was done though, it didn't quite abate her desire to bite and scratch but oh well!
