New look update
Well, I got bored with the way this was looking. Part of it was due to the fact that the theme I was using I had hacked up so bad that underneth it looked so bad that it buged me. Also the 3 column thing works great on this laptop, but I noticed viewing the page at work on a larger screeen with higher resolution that there was a lot of wasted space. This is a modified version of Simple-Green with colors that match the other pages on this box and a header picture that is choosen at random. For only spending a few minutes on modifiing the original I am pretty happy. Lets see what I think of it in a few weeks.
Last night Kirstie and I saw a few bands at The Beat Kitchen . Opening was Hunting Stories who hinted that they were only in partial form. 2 guitarists and a keyboard/trumpet player playing very layed back pop songs. The best parts were the harmonies and the melody lines on the trumpet that really propelled the a few of the choruses. Over all the songs could have used some morework, a drummer could have really locked the band together (and maybe that is the one missing member). SIANspheric was next and they played twinkling starry shoe gaze. While listening to them I recalled some other bands that we picked up a while ago like Pia Fraus, Paik, Ariel, Malory and other dream-pop bands in what appear like the continuation of late 80’s british shoegaze. I couldn’t be happier. SIANspheric had moments of wall of distortion ala MBV with lyrics you really couldn’t hear or understand. Which didn’t really matter because it was the ringing guitars and soft stepping bass/drums duo that you were really listening to. Lastly, A Northern Chorus played with 2 guitars, bass, drums, and cello. Simlar in style to SIANspheric but with much more concentration on lyrics and songs they still created a great blanket of sound that I got lost in many times. A great night of music, unfortunatly sparsly attended. Hopefully nex time around both bands get the crowds they deserve.