Friday, 22 May 2009
School of Seven Bells showed up to the High Noon Saloon last night and ended up playing one of my favorite shows of the year. I was a skeptic at first because the inclusion of a giant visual screen backdrop can, at times, be a distraction, not an aid. That wasn’t the case for either band last night. Both bands were great, best in show goes to School of Seven Bells, but best in moving pictures goes to Black Moth Super Rainbow whose mixture of the obscure and frightening provided many WTF moments.
Check out the photos from Ed Oliver and, as always, drop a comment with your thoughts/reviews on the show.
Buy: School of Seven Bells – Alpinisms
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Myspace: School of Seven Bells
Myspace: Black Moth Super Rainbow
MP3: School Of Seven Bells – “Connjur”
MP3: Black Moth Super Rainbow – “Happy Melted City”
MP3: Black Moth Super Rainbow – “Forever Heavy”
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:14 pm
The show last night at High Noon was fantastic. All in our party of 3 agree, School of Seven Bells stole the show. Ben Curtis played his *ss off, and the twins sounded absolutely enchanting. BMSR were also very good. Came away with an amazing experience, a tour poster autographed by both bands, and a limited edition BMSR CD with fake chinchila cover. Groovy!
May 23rd, 2009 at 2:01 pm
I guess im going to be the only one saying School of Seven Bells was not only too loud (and i like loud shows) but boring also. They need to enlist a really drummer and bassist and tone down on the dist. echo combo. esp. with 2 guitarists.
I thought BMSR stole the show for real by being interesting
May 24th, 2009 at 6:19 am
Alex, I thought it sounded perfect. I was towards the back of the venue though.