meoWcifer, 2 Gallants and Rogue Wave
Trey and I actually ventured out into the wasteland of Houston's nightlife Saturday to go see our old friend Gram's Oakland-based, Sub Pop-signed band Rogue Wave at Mary Jane's Fat Cat (yes, that is the complete name of the place these days). And we went early enough to see all three bands and get some chatting time in with Gram, as well as take in the first band. meoWcifer is pretty good, pretty indie-pop stuff with two girl vocals, one of whom happens to be Jen N., whom I haven't seen in years. It had been so long, and as I didn't know she was in the band, but knew of the other girl in the band, I momentarily mistook Jen for the other girl and thought, wow, that girl looks a lot like Jen. Ha ha. Gram cleared everything up for me and I was real happy to see her again and talk to her a bit after her show. She's doing extremely well, and looking extremely happily in love with her new husband Ray (or Roy...).
The 2 Gallants are two very good, very young musicians who have a song that sounds almost exactly like Billy Joel's piano man. I don't know if they're old enough to even know that song. They like the blues, man, but not that obvious stuff. Obscure! Even more obscure! Dead old black men from the deep south whom you've never heard of. Never mind, you wouldn't understand.
Rogue Wave played a tight set, but they were highly irritated by both the overly dramatic female dancers and their overweight male escorts, and the rapidly disappearing crowd. The crowd thing made me feel a little bad for them, but I have to admit to enjoying watching the little look-at-me crowd embarrass themselves. I had a flashback to old TGL shows when the IBP crowd used to have such fun trying to out-drama each other on the dance floor. Of course, they never dressed as badly as Saturday night's little clique. I swear they must have thought they were going to an eighties party. Or maybe they just thought they looked good. Who knows.
I'll see if I have a pic worth posting a little bit later. Right now, Zoey's insisting on playing on the computer...
The 2 Gallants are two very good, very young musicians who have a song that sounds almost exactly like Billy Joel's piano man. I don't know if they're old enough to even know that song. They like the blues, man, but not that obvious stuff. Obscure! Even more obscure! Dead old black men from the deep south whom you've never heard of. Never mind, you wouldn't understand.
Rogue Wave played a tight set, but they were highly irritated by both the overly dramatic female dancers and their overweight male escorts, and the rapidly disappearing crowd. The crowd thing made me feel a little bad for them, but I have to admit to enjoying watching the little look-at-me crowd embarrass themselves. I had a flashback to old TGL shows when the IBP crowd used to have such fun trying to out-drama each other on the dance floor. Of course, they never dressed as badly as Saturday night's little clique. I swear they must have thought they were going to an eighties party. Or maybe they just thought they looked good. Who knows.
I'll see if I have a pic worth posting a little bit later. Right now, Zoey's insisting on playing on the computer...
1 Comments:
jen's married? wowsa. i remember those tgl shows well.. nice memories you just conjured for me.
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