Showing posts with label hymns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hymns. Show all posts

Friday, October 16, 2009

10/9/09 - Hymns, OK Sweetheart

...at Hailey's. Not a show I would normally pick, but my Denton Cougar friend has a thang for the greasy long-hairs in Hymns, and she asked me to come along and keep her from embarrassing herself. Was also accompanied by the Princess and her strip-club-loving friends.

OK Sweetheart (Denton/San Fran (?)) was up first. Not bad (like I said, this wasn't exactly my pick). Great voice, some pleasant little tunes. The Princess thought she sounded like Norah Jones.

Hymns were up next. Blech. I seemed to enjoy them the first time I saw them, but this time, I just wasn't into it - way too jangly and Beatles-retready. But what was even worse than the band was the crowd. My gawd, i've never seen a crowd so unresponsive and unsupportive. After the first song, where all the guys in the band really made an effort to crank up the energy in the room, there was almost no response from the crowd. The lead guitarist even jokingly made a comment, like "Come on, I only heard two people clapping for that one". And when he tried to get everyone clapping along during the next song - crickets. It was embarrassing. Not sure what the deal was - I've never seen that happen, anywhere. These guys must've bad-mouthed denton at some point, or impregnated the mayor's daughter their last time thru town. Bizarre.


We split after that.

Friday, October 31, 2008

10/26/08 - Locksley, Hymns

ok, went to the HOB pontiac garage on sunday wif a friend who's a huge fan of the Hymns. endured the $10 parking, $14 ticket and $6 drinks cuz you know why. dint bring the camera, arent you lucky, no shitty pics.

doors were at 8:00. got there at 8:30 and somehow missed the first band, Greater Good. WHAT. THE. FUCK?!!?!!! still fucking pissed about that. Hymns were playin when we got there. these guys were really good. sorta bluesy, southern-soft-rockish stuff. very high-energy. most band members looked like they hadn't showered in a couple weeks, you know what i mean. but that's what the chicks dig, you know? maybe we can all learn somethin from that, eh? anyways...fuck. they were good.

locksley headlined. these dudes were pretty damn good, too. very 60's high energy beatles-esque sorta shit. great show. they dont need no help from me. fuck, tom hanks is a fan, so...

that's it.