Last Saturday I went to Potion Cafe in Brooklyn, NY to see S.W.A.K. and The Black Tie Party, and let me tell you, it's been a long time since I've had so much fun at a show! First of all, the venue is tiny, so the forty-something (rough guesstimate... I'm bad with those things) people that were there filled it to its breaking point.
SWAK went on first amidst torrents of feedback and squeals that they said was their soundcheck....
Let's just say the entire night was LOUD! It was their first show ever (they formed in December 08') and they blew the fucking roof off the place. Pure energy. Anthony pounded the drumkit with a fury that, frankly, I dont think the fisher price toy was ready for. Every so often youd see pieces of it flying off, and Anthony using any free limb he could spare fixing the drums while playing them, what coordination!
Reggie layed down some solid, fuzzy, loveable bass lines... and WHA? all with a broken hand... that's some punk shit right there:
Sydney, apparently quite the smartass, made the show seem like less of a show, and more like you were busting in and partying your ass off at one of their practices (not that it's a bad thing). You could barely hear the vocals, and all you could see was a barely discernable angry looking guy screaming behind a wall of hair over his face. Only things I could understand him say were "LOUIE LOUIE!" and "nah,... fuck that I dont want to play that song... let's do the next one"
this may sound like I'm shedding them in a bad light, but trust me, their philosophy of energy above quality really works for them. I couldn't help dancing my ass off to it all night!
They ended with a Stooges cover (T.V. Eye) and somewhere at the end of the song, we all lost Sydney, who was going apeshit screaming and strumming his guitar in a reckless manner. Then he lost it too, diving into the drumset and ending the song, and the drum hardware.
The Black Tie Party came on soon after the thinning of the crowd after SWAK's set, and beefed it right back up again. They had us all dancing and moshing to what sounded like 60's underground garage hopped up on amphetamines from outer space!
It's was their first show in four months, and we're all glad they're back on the scene.
Jay's catchy guitar hooks seemed a lot less poppy coming from a heavily distorted seemingly busted amplifier. And his Jack White esque vocals made the music that much more energetic and frantic!
Adam, not bound by his mic, unless he was chiming in with Jay, had more of a chance to run around, jumping off his amplifier and showing off that reckless abandon that you only had the balls to do back when having scraped knees was a playground battle wound!
Jesse... I have to give Jesse props... not only for amazing drumming at his first show with Black Tie Party, but being able to drum period. On the set that had been in tatters only ten minutes before his set, he somehow fixed it up and made it obey his every whim... sometimes you just have to beat these things into submission I guess.
The kit however, didnt want to cooperate on their last song.
Sydney (remember him?) went to fix it,
And somehow, him, Jay, and Jesse all wound up swimming in a sea of broken drums and feedack.
this is more a warning than a review: Lock up any valueables you have, when any of these guys are around... they love breaking things.
Let's just say the entire night was LOUD! It was their first show ever (they formed in December 08') and they blew the fucking roof off the place. Pure energy. Anthony pounded the drumkit with a fury that, frankly, I dont think the fisher price toy was ready for. Every so often youd see pieces of it flying off, and Anthony using any free limb he could spare fixing the drums while playing them, what coordination!
Reggie layed down some solid, fuzzy, loveable bass lines... and WHA? all with a broken hand... that's some punk shit right there:
Sydney, apparently quite the smartass, made the show seem like less of a show, and more like you were busting in and partying your ass off at one of their practices (not that it's a bad thing). You could barely hear the vocals, and all you could see was a barely discernable angry looking guy screaming behind a wall of hair over his face. Only things I could understand him say were "LOUIE LOUIE!" and "nah,... fuck that I dont want to play that song... let's do the next one"this may sound like I'm shedding them in a bad light, but trust me, their philosophy of energy above quality really works for them. I couldn't help dancing my ass off to it all night!
They ended with a Stooges cover (T.V. Eye) and somewhere at the end of the song, we all lost Sydney, who was going apeshit screaming and strumming his guitar in a reckless manner. Then he lost it too, diving into the drumset and ending the song, and the drum hardware.
The Black Tie Party came on soon after the thinning of the crowd after SWAK's set, and beefed it right back up again. They had us all dancing and moshing to what sounded like 60's underground garage hopped up on amphetamines from outer space!
It's was their first show in four months, and we're all glad they're back on the scene.
Jay's catchy guitar hooks seemed a lot less poppy coming from a heavily distorted seemingly busted amplifier. And his Jack White esque vocals made the music that much more energetic and frantic!
Adam, not bound by his mic, unless he was chiming in with Jay, had more of a chance to run around, jumping off his amplifier and showing off that reckless abandon that you only had the balls to do back when having scraped knees was a playground battle wound!
Jesse... I have to give Jesse props... not only for amazing drumming at his first show with Black Tie Party, but being able to drum period. On the set that had been in tatters only ten minutes before his set, he somehow fixed it up and made it obey his every whim... sometimes you just have to beat these things into submission I guess.
The kit however, didnt want to cooperate on their last song.
Sydney (remember him?) went to fix it,
And somehow, him, Jay, and Jesse all wound up swimming in a sea of broken drums and feedack.
this is more a warning than a review: Lock up any valueables you have, when any of these guys are around... they love breaking things.
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