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| House Shows Are Really Something Else
Last night I took an hour long drive out to a house show/birthday
party/vinyl release for a couple local bands, Laika (their drummer
was the birthday boy) and Anodes. Naturally, both bands played, as
well as Lord Snow and a couple other locals, Gilliam and Drangus
(Tommy Pini of Family Might). The house was a goddamned optical
illusion; it looks like a tiny house in south St. Louis, but it was three
stories plus a basement, had six people comfortably living in it and a
variety of other open rooms. There were at least 60-70 people in
this house at the peak of things, possibly more, but I'm not one to
guess numbers at a glance. Let's just say it was a lot of people. This
is probably pretty standard for house shows, but this is the first I've
ever been to. I spent my earlier teenage years being in a metal band
and ditzing around venues and really only checking out the local
scene that way. The show took place in the basement, which would
more accurately be referred to as a cellar given the 'antique'
connotation of the word, since this basement was entirely wood &
stone, with no pipes or innards of the home covered and hanging so
low that if you were taller than 6'2", you were bending over. In the
back of the basement, there was a room with an eerie red light
coming out of it, which was on numerous occasions referred to by
other attendants as "The Spook Hole", commenting that others
"should go roll around in it, there's broken glass in there!" In all
honesty, everything about this show was flat out trashy - and it was
fucking great. I don't get out for shows much anymore since I've got
five fractured vertebrae, and when I do I obviously am not doing a
whole lot of moving around. But, if it's any indication, my neck is
still stiff almost 24 hours later. Something about the vibes at this
show made me actually push back when the crowd got rowdy and
even get in a little. I regret that immensely now, but at the same
time, it's refreshing to do something like that for the first time in
almost two years. People were hanging by pipes in the ceiling and
swinging off of them. It should probably be noted that the people
putting on this show are the people that, at another house show I
didn't attend but heard all about, were shut down by police and
decided top retaliate by taking the show to a uhaul and driving it
around while the remaining bands played their sets. All of the bands
that played were amazing, I was particularly impressed by Anodes
and Lord Snow, and Gilliam's vocalist has an incredible presence,
flailing about and screaming so loud his voice breaks. You can tell
the dude was putting himself wholly into the music he was playing. I
wish I could accurately judge their overall performance, but their
guitarist fell ill the morning of so it was drum bass and vocals. Still
good though. Raw as fuck. Raw is a good word to describe this entire
show. If you've never been to a house show, get to one. | | 1 |  | Lord Snow
Solitude
http://lordsnow.bandcamp.com/ | | 2 |  | Anodes
Anodes
http://anodes.bandcamp.com/ | | 3 | | Laika
The Brother, The Solace, The Pariah, The Father
http://laikastl.bandcamp.com/ | | 4 |  | Gilliam
Gilliam
http://gilliam420.bandcamp.com/ | | 5 |  | Family Might
Floor Connections
Drangus doesn't have any presence on the internet, so here's dudes old band
http://familymight.bandcamp.com/ | |
ImmortalPaper
12.21.14 | holy shit i rambled on a lot more than i thought i would. whatever, it was cool. so it should also be noted that the drummer in Gilliam is ex-Family Might also, forgot about that.
Speaking of Gilliam check out this video they just put out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wumQHpAYwfs
i really like gilliam | R6Rider
12.21.14 | I have a friend that goes to house shows on occasion.
Gonna have to go with him one of these days. | thunder15
12.21.14 | Yeah house shows are the shit dude, I would have loved to see lord snow in that environment... Btw, how did you fuck up all those vertebrae? | YakNips
12.21.14 | fuck yes
im rlly jealous you got to see a lord snow house show | ImmortalPaper
12.23.14 | @thunder between my dcotors myself and my family the clearest possibility was a skateboarding accident I had like four years ago. They're all compression fractures, and I'm not even 20 yet, so the possibilities are few. It doesn't quite make sense though 'cause the pain only started about two years ago and they were only visible in imaging within the last month or two. So it's really a mystery, at the end of the day lol.
And yeah a lot of the friends I was there with hyped lord snow real hard and it was deserved hype 100%. After their set I went upstairs with Gilliam's vocalist and sat around shooting the shit with him and Lord Snow's drummer. We talked a lot about Skyrim. Apparently all of their releases are going to be named after cities in Skyrim, the next being Winterhold, haha. | ImmortalPaper
12.23.14 | i don't | ImmortalPaper
12.23.14 | maybe i was raped so hard it fractured my spine. huh. that must be it after all
also here is a playlist of the whole show, adequate quality i guess
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw414Afwi8fVeXS_mZV2zuq_EOJGqG1DV
and a much better quality snippet of Lord Snow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIZnJ_zz1Hc | YakNips
12.23.14 | god steph has gotten so good at live vocals | Lethean
12.23.14 | never been to a house show in my life my scene fucking sucks |
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