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Vivian Girls + The Legend! & The Deadnotes + Nova Scotia + Feathers @ The Step Inn

Normally when I photograph a show I’ll try and write some quick notes the next morning to help me when I finally get around to writing the blog post.  However, I have gone through a massive phase of not doing this, meaning trying to write posts more than five months after they happened.

The most interesting thing about this show is that I can’t remember much about Vivian  Girls other than that the bassist is really cute and they had copious amounts of reverb.  I can’t remember much about Nova Scotia other than they stuck out like a bit of a sore thumb on the bill by being way too proficient on their instruments.  And I can’t remember much about Feathers, other than thinking that this might have been the first time that I’d seen them with Susan drumming.

But over 5 months later I can still remember that Jad Fair told The Legend! (better known as fading music critic and fringe dweller Everett True) that there are only two types of song – songs about love and songs about monsters – and that the Legend! was more of less drunk between the ages of 18 and 4o-something (other than one year in his late 30s from memory).  This was my first experience of seeing The Legend! live, having missed him play a couple of times with The Young Liberals previously and I was quite impressed.  He was playing with The Deadnotes, who  provided a musical backing that really suited the prosed-based monologue vocals.  That I can remember more of the music from their set months later than anything else that happened on this night speaks volumes and goes a long way to validating Everett True’s view that if you’re given a platform you should at least be memorable.  Something like that anyway.  I’m sure he’ll be along to confirm or otherwise in a bit.

Some more photos on Flickr.

Vivian Girls

The Legend! & The Deadnotes

Nova Scotia

Feathers

This entry was posted on Monday, March 29th, 2010 at 11:30 pm. It is filed under Music Photography and tagged with Brisbane, Everett True, Feathers, Justin Edwards, Nova Scotia, Rave Magazine, Sony a700, Step Inn, The Deadnotes, The Legend, Vivian Girls. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.