Cool music and spaces in San Francisco
Last night I saw This Can't End Well ( http://www.thiscantendwell.com/ ) and Victoria and the Vaudevillains ( http://www.victoriavband.com/ ) at the Lost Church ( http://www.thelostchurch.com/ ) which is an absolutely wonderful tiny venue tucked away in the Mission. It seats 50 people, at most.
Both bands were great- I went to see them because I know the violist/multi-instrumentalist and cellist/singer from This Can't End Well, and as noted last post I really need to take advantage of all of the awesome stuff going on in the city. Especially when I know people who are doing the awesome stuff! Also, I love hearing bands with unusual instrumentation, or instrumentation used in a style of music where it's not often seen. This is definitely the first time I've seen a zither and a toy piano used in string-quartet-inspired arrangements of songs that would have worked just fine with rather traditional singer/songwriter guitar-based setups. But were much more interesting and dramatic the way the band presented them.
And V & V were great fun as well, and had a "human statue" performer with them, who during their song "Zombie" (not the Cranberries one) suddenly moved and went zombie, spitting and drooling blood! Even knowing they were a performance art type of band, I had not expected that :-)
All in all a really fun night of really creative entertainment! And in a venue where you're pretty much having a conversation with the artists because everything is so close together.
Both bands were great- I went to see them because I know the violist/multi-instrumentalist and cellist/singer from This Can't End Well, and as noted last post I really need to take advantage of all of the awesome stuff going on in the city. Especially when I know people who are doing the awesome stuff! Also, I love hearing bands with unusual instrumentation, or instrumentation used in a style of music where it's not often seen. This is definitely the first time I've seen a zither and a toy piano used in string-quartet-inspired arrangements of songs that would have worked just fine with rather traditional singer/songwriter guitar-based setups. But were much more interesting and dramatic the way the band presented them.
And V & V were great fun as well, and had a "human statue" performer with them, who during their song "Zombie" (not the Cranberries one) suddenly moved and went zombie, spitting and drooling blood! Even knowing they were a performance art type of band, I had not expected that :-)
All in all a really fun night of really creative entertainment! And in a venue where you're pretty much having a conversation with the artists because everything is so close together.