Monday, March 8, 2010

Are You Local? SXSW Send off @ First Ave 3/6


The night started out at Pizza Luce for a litte pre show drinks and grub. Other than a little problem getting a beer, dinner was excellent as usual. A few of us headed over to First Ave to see a few local bands perform before they head down to SXSW in Austin, TX. We walked in halfway through Romantica's set and my interest was peaked and I'd like to see a full set of theirs. Good energetic alt country. The Pines took the stage next and it was a pretty boring set. I think I like them as a band but First Ave might be too big of a venue for them right now. Next up was Jeremy Messersmith who I've seen before and was just ok but this set he had a full band and sounded really good. He tried out a few new songs on us and I dug them quite a bit. The highlight of the night though was the next band Peter Wolf Crier. 2 guys, drums, guitar and singing. Good rock energy, lots off vocal looping and a pretty kick ass cover of Helter Skelter.

We left before Lookbook took the stage because it had been a long day but I would like to see them soon.

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