What a weekend.
Friday
Went to the Musical Family Tree festival set at Radio Radio. met up with CJ, Nate, Ricky and Maggie. Good good stuff.
- The Society
**
Not bad. Solid rock. Didn’t really grab me a ton but wasn’t bad. - The Fervor
***
I really enjoyed them, but then again I am partial to female lead rock. Their songwriting seemed really good and you gotta lie a band fronted by a keyboard. - Abner Trio
1/2
Oh my. Really. Really. Bad. So many jokes were made at their expense. “Who let them out of the garage?” “Come on guys, you can hit that note!” “Livejournal: The Band!” - Born Again Floozies
****
KICK ASS. Tap dancers as percussion section. A tuba player. Sort of a New Orleans Vaudville Blues Rock feel (best I can come up with). Excellent songs, great banter, I’d love to see them again play a full set. - Everthus.the.deadbeats
***1/2
Also pretty kick ass. One of thos ebands with about 500 members (okay more like 6). Lead singer has charisma out the wazoo, sort of Beck-ish in the way he moves and all. They brought up a tenor sax player for the last few songs who loked like he was straight out of some Chicago blues club, complete with sunglasses indoors. - Spitshine
**1/2
Solid bar rock outfit. Nothing special but they played originals and had a good rock sound. - Prizzy Prizzy Please
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Left before their set as the whole thing was running about an hour behind schedule and I had to be up relatively early on Saturday.
Saturday
Well, I didn’t get up as early as I wanted but I still made it back home to my parents’ to help my dad install a couple windows in the house. I better start learning this stuff soon if I want to buy a house! Also, my mom made her bbq which is just about the best thing EVER. Slow cooked beef that is all shredded and faling apart and in her sauce with so much vinegar that it makes your eyes water. Perfect. You can take your sweet bbq, I’ll have my mom’s eye wateringly tangy bbq any day. She also gave me the recipe. I’ve been itching to try it out, but it’s a dish that takes practice and feel to get the balance right.
I was going to go to the Saturday night MFT lineup at Radio Radio too but by the time I got home from helping with the windows, and after the late night on Friday I decided to just take it easy and do alot of nothing. Mission accomplished.
Sunday
Slept in. Yay! Then got all ready for the Flogging Molly concert in Champaign, IL!! I haven’t seen them live in a few years and when Erin and Chris told me about it I just had to go. Not that the company of Erin wasn’t a draw either 
. So I made the 2 hour trek to Champaign and met them and a few of their friends for Japanese food (yum, Edamame and Philly Roll) and then on to the show at a club called The Canopy. Very cool place, great venue. As for the show, schuweeeet.
Zox
***
Very cool opener. Violin fronted rock band. Super kick ass. I’m definitely going to have to look up their album sometime.
Bedouin Soundclash
*
The one star is just for the bass player, who really needs to find himself a better band to join because he is REALLY good. Oh, and there should be a law that if you want to do a cover of The Clash you should have to apply for a permit and prove competence first. Oy.
Flogging Molly
****
Great great great great (…..) show. Played a ton of my favorites, I yelled and sang along and jumped and white boy danced and everything. Ears are still ringing today but so totally worth it. Only disappointment was that they didn’t play Delilah as their final encore. But they played almost all my other favorites so I’m not complaining.
Monday
Yeah, I took today off. Getting home at 4:30am isn’t really condusive to being able to function the next day. I’m not as young as I used to be heh.
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You definitely picked the better night to go to the MFT fest. Sat. was ok, but not nearly as energetic, and less crowded, than Fri. Highlights of the evening were The Carter Administration, Velo Deluxe, and Gentleman Caller (though I’ve seen better performances from GC, they were missing two of their regular band mates). We skipped closing act Brando, it was after 2am and I had to work Sunday.
Ears still ringing? Did you not get earplugs like you said you should? Or did you stand way up in front by the speakers, white boy dancing your heart out?
heh I got earplugs but tried them out and well, when I sang along (which was most of the time. that’s a requirement at a Flogging Molly show) all i could hear was myself out of tune. and that’s no fun at all. heh
I only consider it no fun when other people can hear me singing out of tune. Maybe I’m just acclimated to wearing earplugs because of work. Whatever works for you. Just remember, hearing conservation is no joke. Safety first!
Tsk, tsk… Bad Clash covers make baby Jesus cry.
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