Friday, February 12, 2010
Thanks to everyone who came out on Wednesday to The Echo for Pizza!, Cobra Lilies, Superhumanoids, and Findlay Brown. Special raves go out to Cobra Lilies for all the hard work in preparing all the Valentine treats for everybody and for just being so nice in asking us to present the show. Those Lilies certainly know how to host a party. I wonder if they cater? Hmm, anyway, the bands were quite good that night and if you were there you already know all that we are about to write...
We asked Findlay Brown if it would be alright to call him "Finney B." and he almost beat the ish out of us (he's like 200 feet tall). All kidding aside, the guy is pretty polished and well-managed, almost like he's played in front of a couple million people on national television or something. And we hate when music critics use lovechild references, but the guy really might be the only evidence we have of a Roy Orbison/kd lang one night stand and we should cherish that. But, yeah, he was pretty impressive.
Cobra Lilies did a cover of Midnight Star's "Operator" which could be the highlight of highlights to all their rollerskating shenanigans. Considering the theme of the show, however, we were surprised they did not play "There's Always Love," a hit song of theirs they should play anytime we are present regardless of the holiday. Unfortunately, our pleading request for them to cover The Aquabats' "Lovers of Loving Love" has not come yet but fingers crossed!
Pizza! might have played the best set we've ever seen them do. Songs that might have sounded disjointed or incomplete a year or two ago now sound like something you might hear on an iPhone commercial. And, let's be honest, it would really take an act of God or hearing the melody of "Houses" to get us to buy a product that came from a company called Apple. In any case, after their set we overheard some ladies presumably getting in the Valentine spirit by exclaiming how "hot" Pizza! were and how much they'd "like to order a slice of THAT, no toppings" to which we interjected "well, if you'd like a slice of meat lover's we got that right here for you," which they responded "we're vegetarian, you perv!" And that pretty much ended our chances of dating any of the lady Cobra Lilies.
No matter, we were quickly consoled by the sweet synth pop of Superhumanoids whose rest of 2010 quickly flashed before our eyes as we watched them:
- March: Release new EP
- April: Receive rave reviews by popular music blog/zines
- May: Get a Monday residency
- June: Slum it at another la-underground show
- July: Start work on a full-length record
- August: Send advance demos of new record to la-underground for preview
- September: Release full-length record to glowing reviews
- October: Finally answer that email from la-underground asking if Sarah is single
- November: Get another Monday residency
- December: Appear on "Best of 2009" and "Bands to Look Out for 2011" lists
Not necessarily in that order but if they can get to #8 sooner than later that would nice of them.
Videos of the show coming soon but check out photos below:
Thanks for coming out y'all. Our next show is 2/26 at pehrspace with Timonium, Summer Darling, Silian Rail, and powerdove. Pencil it in.
