SXSW- Thursday
Experimental Aircraft at LaunchPad studios
On Thursday, this is the only show I managed to see. I had plans to see other shows, but for various reasons none of those other plans panned out.
Ex-Air played 1 or 2 new songs that I really liked. The guy that does some vocals kind of entertains me. He sounded like he wanted to be a circa-1980s English punk singer or something. I never realized before how good Ex-Air's bassist is. I wish I would have blogged this right after it happened, when my memory of the performance was more up-to-date.
Most of the band members sounded good, but I'm sorry to say that I've never heard Rachel Goldstar's vocals sound so off. She actually sounded really flat to me at quite a few points. I kept wondering if her monitor wasn't working or something. After singing "Symphony," (probably my favorite Experimental Aircraft song) she even said that she totally had botched it. I seriously think she was just off that day, or maybe the monitor wasn't loud enough. I know she is capable of singing much better.
Later on that night we couldn't get in to see Flogging Molly so everybody came over to my place and we hung out for a coupla hours, drank a few beers, eventually watched Napoleon Dynamite.
On Thursday, this is the only show I managed to see. I had plans to see other shows, but for various reasons none of those other plans panned out.
Ex-Air played 1 or 2 new songs that I really liked. The guy that does some vocals kind of entertains me. He sounded like he wanted to be a circa-1980s English punk singer or something. I never realized before how good Ex-Air's bassist is. I wish I would have blogged this right after it happened, when my memory of the performance was more up-to-date.
Most of the band members sounded good, but I'm sorry to say that I've never heard Rachel Goldstar's vocals sound so off. She actually sounded really flat to me at quite a few points. I kept wondering if her monitor wasn't working or something. After singing "Symphony," (probably my favorite Experimental Aircraft song) she even said that she totally had botched it. I seriously think she was just off that day, or maybe the monitor wasn't loud enough. I know she is capable of singing much better.
Later on that night we couldn't get in to see Flogging Molly so everybody came over to my place and we hung out for a coupla hours, drank a few beers, eventually watched Napoleon Dynamite.
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