Leggings as pants

By Sarah Cordingley

Wednesday November 1, 2006

Kids can’t handle booze I’m not an optimist. But if there’s one thing in this city that makes me hopeful that there is a better future than the spit in the bottom of my half-empty glass, it’s Fake Jazz Wednsdays. The Cobalt is just gross enough and the bands are just unpredictable enough that it could be fucking huge. Not huge like leggings as pants, but huge like, “Woah, this is what I’m doing with my winter.” Teen Community (more of a found-object sculpture than a band), Baboon Torture Division (complete with drunk, dancing robot), the Internet and Conswaello played on the 18th.

Cheerleader Camp set up a Halloween showcase at Video-In, but it got fucked because a girl vommed all over. White Lung got to play, Birdband did his thing, and the Defektors made it through a bit of their set before the authorities arrived.

Ora Cogan, Terrorbird, Ghostmonics, and Aerosol Constellations played at BLIM on the 28th as the audience sat tensely in hard chairs. Ghostmonics were terrified, but managed to play a full set of dark French pop/lounge-goth.

Watch for the new Saturday night called Tastemakers at a venue in Blood Alley called Zepplin’s. One band a night and the DJ spins underground garage from the ’60s.

Lucky Dragons and Yukon play the inaugural show at a new licenced all-ages venue called the Other Space, located above the Media Club.

Wolf Eyes play November 8 at Pat’s Pub with Sick Llama and Raven Strain, two bands with shit out on Wolf Eyes’ labels, American Tapes and Hanson Records, respectively.

Outsider legends the No-Neck Blues Band plays at the* Arts Club* Nov 10, while Pink Noise and the two-bassing Modern Creatures play Pat’s on November 10.