report on the fiasco last friday night

so for the show last friday at beale st bar, i pretty much had a bad feeling about it, and i guess it was my fault for having a negative attitude. basically, i'll start with the bands we played with. the first band was called wave in a cell. like wasn't gonna talk shit on these guys, cuz i really don't wanna be perpetuating my habits at talking shit, but we sat through their whole set, and they fucking left before we even started, so fuck them. they sucked ass. i mean, they could play, and they played alright, but jesus christ, every fucking song, it was like just end already! enougth with hippy dippy jammy grunge lite funk sub-incubus singing about girls bullshit. their bass player was pretty good. the drummer was barely holding it together and was uninventive. the singer/guitarist had a beard. an evil beard. i ran into jessica by the bathrooms and was describing how the band sort of almost in a way kind of sounded like the minutemen on a couple songs, but probably had no idea who they were, and then the songs would like go on forever and that they kinda sucked ass, and the singer guy came out of the bathroom, but i don't think he heard me diss his shit band. anyways, i don't wanna talk shit cuz they were good at what they were doing, which was boring the fuck out of me.

so then my friend charlie's band played, they were solid. that's all i'm gonna say.

so then we played, and we failed at having any type of sound check, and basically we started off with a new song and i could not adequately hear the electronic drums tommi was hitting, so i ended up a beat or two off, and then when the real drums came in it was a clusterfuck or trainwreck of bullshit. so i had to stop the song and start at the next part. so embarassing, and it was like, yay, first impressions and here's our new song, look we totally suck! i was really bummed cuz we had people come who hadn't seen us before, even random people i hadn't seen in years that just happened to be there, and to suck right off the bat, really bummed me out. so i had a bad/snarky attitude for the rest of the show, even though it did run out ok for the most part from there. overall i don't feel like we played that well, and that it was overall quite inconsitent. i did try to focus on singing real pretty, i just kept forgetting words all god damn night and having to adlib some shit. anyways, our friends were real supportive and said we were good, and usually they're all pretty harsh, so whatever. we played:

persona (which i fucked up), fem politique, fear of death, the failed musician, popstar for sure, charisma, get bored, inspire, oh tyler, birthday suit.

anyways, we decided that being a duo sucks, and that we have to find people to play with us, either that or we're gonna go the fucking lap-top route. so anyone wanna be in our band? we'd like to meet multi-instrumentalists and would like to find a bassist, a keyboard freak, and another guitarist. that's about it.

as for the fucking cd, it's being mastered at the moment, we're working on the art, really only the front cover has been put together in photoshop, everything else, we're waiting a bit to get some more material, cuz we want the thing to look hot.