Thank you so much to everyone for coming out to our show at Bogg's Social and Supply this past Saturday. Boxman and Fly-By Drivers both did well, and on top of being great musicians, they're all cool people. Everyone working at Bogg's that night was also kind as they always are, and we cannot thank them enough for being so professional and amicable. For those who have not been, it is a unique venue in west Atlanta that hosts a full range of bands and shows. They have a full stage, sound system, and lightshow set up which makes load-in so much easier. We cannot wait to get back as it has yet to disappoint.
As I understand, this was Boxman's first venue performance, and they handled it well. They mixed a few originals in with a set of covers ranging from Sublime to Black Sabbath to Blink-182. I found myself preferring the originals to most of the cover material really because they had some cool material - kind of a grunge, punk, metal, 70s-ish rock mix. We can't wait to play with them again. I cannot mention Boxman without noting, with prejudice, that The Midday Skip's very own Trent Harp also plays drums in Boxman. He killed it, of course.
Fly-By was unfortunately down a member, but they played a great show. I have now seen Fly-By three(?) times live and am always struck by their inventive song structures. Lots of carefully constructed time signature changes and well-placed melodies. They have this indie/surf/baroque pop sound made interesting by the song structures and the instrumentation: primarily drums, bass, one guitar, and occasional keyboards. It's an odd contradiction to be playing such heady music with sparse backing. They always play really well and show up rehearsed and ready to go.
Now, they say you're your own worst critic, but I thought our portion of the night went okay. We were running a bit late (Why does everybody make such fuss about being The Headliner?); everyone was starting to get tired; and a good bit of the people, I'm sure, were thinking about work or church in the morning. I've seen before that a performance is about 70% as good as practice, and I believe that's pretty close to accurate. In terms of Saturday, our performance felt about 30% sloppier than usual: notes were missed, words were forgotten, cues went un-cued. So it goes, I guess. The energy of the show, however, felt great. A huge thank you goes out to all who stayed and egged us on. We left pretty beat up and tired, but we had fun and hope y'all did too.
In other news, there's no new news on the impending album. Tracks are still being re-mixed and argued over, and hopefully it won't come to blows. Not that I'm challenging Carson, but I could probably win in a cage match over the keyboard tone. Updates for that will come as they come as will more announced shows.
Until next,
Tyler