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Showing posts with label my enemy complete. Show all posts
Showing posts with label my enemy complete. Show all posts
Friday, November 30, 2012
The Birthday Massacre @ Empire 11/29/2012
Went to see the Birthday Massacre/WIlliam Control/Aesthetic Perfection/Creature Feature/My Enemy Complete at Empire last night. Met up with Milla, John, Kate and saw Phoebe, Matt, AND Jesse (ASOT) there too! There were a lot of people, the parking lot was packed and there was a great turnout. Not a sellout, but the dancefloor was basically full, with a lot of observers from the railings.
Monday, July 23, 2012
My Enemy Complete @ The Meeting Place - 7/21/2012
DC area local alt/electronic ish My Enemy Complete performed live at The Meeting Place for the regular alt/electronic music event Zero. Milla, John, Kate, and I went ($5 cover). Milla knew someone in the band. They had probably the biggest crowd I've seen at Zero/Midnight yet. Better number (about 30 people) of people than Anvil (about 15) LOL.
They came on around 11:40 (thankfully, cause they originally were supposed to go on at 11...at which point we were JUST getting on teh metroz... then we got word they were going on at 11:30. We arrived around there AT 11:30. Then they started a little later).
They started without much fanfare, and not much banter or crowd interaction. Even after their last song was over they just...stopped playing pretty much. I heard a few songs before on the internets, but was pretty unfamiliar with their set. The whole band was pretty energetic and into the performances- so that was pretty cool. However I thought their actual songs were a bit...lacking. It was similar to another band- Odin's Court- in that their songs were in and of themselves undecided. A song would start out somewhat heavy or with a good electronic part...then change the tempo/feel to something way more mellow and to me that threw off their whole vibe. I couldn't really get into any of their songs.
Afterwards there was some short chat with the singer and he seemed a bit more focused on the artsy /art side of the music and seemingly doing what he wanted to. So that made a bit more sense when he started talking about time signature changes and other such things. However I find that too much focus on the musical theory aspects can be...not that interesting to people who don't follow the more technical/theory aspects of writing music. I would rather hear something that sounds good.
Whatever the case, it was a different show, interesting. Important to support um (somewhat) heavy/electronic music in this area where its...um not prevalent.
Photo:
http://metalcowboy.tumblr.com/post/29099443955/my-enemy-complete-7-21-2012-they-performed-live
Setlist
Defragment
Silent Compromise
15th Night
Strange Boy
Convergence
Resistor
Circular Mind
Where are you now
Rite of Passage
They came on around 11:40 (thankfully, cause they originally were supposed to go on at 11...at which point we were JUST getting on teh metroz... then we got word they were going on at 11:30. We arrived around there AT 11:30. Then they started a little later).
They started without much fanfare, and not much banter or crowd interaction. Even after their last song was over they just...stopped playing pretty much. I heard a few songs before on the internets, but was pretty unfamiliar with their set. The whole band was pretty energetic and into the performances- so that was pretty cool. However I thought their actual songs were a bit...lacking. It was similar to another band- Odin's Court- in that their songs were in and of themselves undecided. A song would start out somewhat heavy or with a good electronic part...then change the tempo/feel to something way more mellow and to me that threw off their whole vibe. I couldn't really get into any of their songs.
Afterwards there was some short chat with the singer and he seemed a bit more focused on the artsy /art side of the music and seemingly doing what he wanted to. So that made a bit more sense when he started talking about time signature changes and other such things. However I find that too much focus on the musical theory aspects can be...not that interesting to people who don't follow the more technical/theory aspects of writing music. I would rather hear something that sounds good.
Whatever the case, it was a different show, interesting. Important to support um (somewhat) heavy/electronic music in this area where its...um not prevalent.
Photo:
http://metalcowboy.tumblr.com/post/29099443955/my-enemy-complete-7-21-2012-they-performed-live
Setlist
Defragment
Silent Compromise
15th Night
Strange Boy
Convergence
Resistor
Circular Mind
Where are you now
Rite of Passage
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