One thing was clear with Saturday’s show that had been added at the last moment after Friday’s sold out immediately after going on sale; Yannis Philippakis and his Foals band mates were not fucking around. From guitars smashed on stage to singers descending from second story balcony’s into the hands of the crowd that was pumped on each heavy guitar hit and soaring vocal line Foals established quickly that they are damn good live. Fellow photographer AJ Dent and I had plenty of things to capture the attention of our lenses during the show with theatrical lighting displays during a very high energy performance. (click the gear in the upper right hand corner to see the second photo in it’s full resolution glory. Credit: AJ Dent)
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Foals 2013 @ Nepture Theatre in Seattle
June 7, 2013 by Dave
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Guards and Joy Formidable
April 3, 2013 by Dave
Saw Joy Formidable last week, pretty killer show. I must be getting older though because the last two trips to the Neptune I’ve felt like I needed earplugs. Crazy kids with their rock music.
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Digital Oddio: Talking Demonic about ∆ing Sequences of Helio
February 23, 2013 by Dave
Added a few more songs inspired why the recent live music (Helio Sequence & Talkdemonic) and a friend of mine who suggested ∆ (Alt-J).
∆’s (pronounced “alt j”) name comes from the keyboard shortcut “Alt-J” on Mac OSX that creates the Delta symbol. They’ve been a long time in them making having formed in 2007 with their self titled debut EP “∆” being released in 2011 and their debut full length album “An Awesome Wave” dropping on 2012. You can find them (Track: Buffalo) in the soundtrack of Oscar nominated film “Silver Linings Playbook” produced by Danny Elfman. The song that’s been added to this playlist is “Breezeblocks” which was their second single that is based on Maurice Sendak’s book “Where the Wild Things Are”. Definitely a fan.
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The Helio Sequence and Talkdemonic at The Neptune in Seattle
February 22, 2013 by Dave
Talkdemonic opened the night showing off the band’s new line up having added two more members. they’ve certainly come a long way since we last talked about them: http://addicted2shows.com/2011/07/05/sasquatch-through-the-lens-of-dave/#more-2834. The added bassist and keyboardist created a much more full sound that Lisa Molinaro could lay her viola melodies over and it was those moments that the show really took off.
Helio Sequence, hailing from Beaverton Oregon, threw down an incredible set at the Neptune Sunday night bringing their recent tour to a close. Both Helio Sequence and Talkdemonic have drummers that are way too much fun to watch. Weikel’s facial expressions while drumming changed almost as quickly as his complex rythms. The appropriately named Harmonica Song definitely got the crowd going with Summers busted out his harmonica over Weikel’s beats.
As the show was coming to a close we were treated to a surprise collaboration of Helio Sequence and Shabazz Palaces who had been touring with them for the grand majority of the time. (Both groups signed to Subpop)
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Playlist Project: Digital Oddio
February 19, 2013 by Dave
I’d like to launch a playlist project “Digital Oddio” with a couple tracks that have caught my attention lately.
Kicking it off is a track from “The Heavy”, an indie rock group from Bath England with some great soul and blues influences. “Short Change Hero” was featured recently in Borderlands 2 as the theme to the cut scene that opens up the game and it’ll fill the same role in this playlist.
Following “The Heavy” we have a song from “Self” called “Trunk fulla amps”. Self is largely composed of one man, a multi-instrumentalist named Matt Mahaffee and the track he put together is filled with homages to a lot different artists ranging from Glen Danzig to Freddy Mercury.
To end this post I’m throwing in “Bit by Bit” by “Mother Mother” a group from Quadra Island off the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. I really dig the energy of this piece driven by powerful vocals out of brother/sister Ryan and Molly Guldemond.
More tracks to come.
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SQUATCHING: Reptar
June 19, 2012 by Dave
After seeing them for the first time I’m not sure it’s possible to not have fun at a Reptar show. It was definitely a situation of needing to live up to a pretty incredible “show energy” hype and have a really shitty timeslot to do so. Scheduled as one of the very first bands on Saturday they were fighting the fan’s fatigue of a late night before and trying to get people motivated to move/do anything that early was rough. It’s incredible that expectations were so high after having just released their debut album Body Faucets and even more so that they delivered. If you get a chance to see these guys live, jump on it.
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SQUATCHING: StrFkr
June 19, 2012 by Dave
Walking to the “I Break Horses” set I was a little surprised to see the Swedish Duo had become more… there were far more members on the stage, and more importantly, they were StrFkr. Due to a last minute cancelation by the planned indie rock group StrFkr took the stage again having just played at the Banana Shack the night before. The music was completely different from what was expected and it was damn good. Who could ask for a better opportunity to gain new fans than to play to a group of people that are decidedly someone else’s fans? It didn’t take long at all to sell this foreign crowd on their music and we were all dancing in no time.
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SQUATCHING: The Shins
June 18, 2012 by Dave
The Shins looked very different at the Gorge this weekend from the last time I saw them a few years ago, the new line-up including Yuuki Mathews (bass), Jessica Dobson (guitar), and Richard Swift (Keyboards), which in itself changed the mood a little but not in a bad way, just a different one. The atmosphere felt very “Shinlike” with the sun setting behind the stage lighting the entire gorge a soft orange. This truly is one of the greatest venues in the world.
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SQUATCHING: Alabama Shakes
June 12, 2012 by Dave
These guys can put on an incredible show. I had heard of them a little bit before the festival from a co-worker as something that I had to listen to and I was not disappointed. It looked like they were genuinely having fun up on the Bigfoot stage and that enjoyment of music was as infectious as the sound itself. I found myself surprised that the southern rock was so enjoyable as quite frankly I am not usually a fan. Way to make me a believer guys.
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