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Imagine you’re in a room that’s about 95� F and you have two tasks.

The first task requires you to hold a 4 lb. telescope up to your face and keep it lined up with a square on the wall on the other side of the room. You’re required to keep the telescope steadily focused on the square 90% of the time.

The second task involves an 8′ tall aluminum pole that has about 5 lb. of weight at the top. The pole, which is taped to a half-wall using four pieces of gaffers tape, must remain upright. Due to the heat of the room, the adhesive on the tape is not working as well as it should. Also, about every three minutes, a person walks by the pole and uses it to balance himself. You’re required to keep the pole upright the entire time.

You have to maintain both of these objectives for an hour. This is what it’s like to run audio and video by yourself at a sold-out concert.

At tonight’s show I ran audio for all three bands and I did video for Panther and Ratatat. It’s a good thing I didn’t attempt video for Envelopes because a) I would have run out of tape and b) I would have run out of battery power.

All of the bands were great. Panther was great, Envelopes was a surprisingly good Swedish band, and Ratatat… well, they’re just face-meltingly good. It’s always neat to see a crowd go from bobbing their heads to completely losing their shit throughout a band’s set. By the time Ratatat busted out Seventeen Years for the encore, the entire place was jumping up and down. I think that was their goal.

I’ll post a link to the DVD torrent when I have it up later this week. I’m going to put Panther and Ratatat on the same disc since Panther’s set was only twenty minutes. I’ll probably end up putting them on Youtube as well if time permits.

Panther – 2006-09-15 El Corazon – Seattle, WA
Download: panther2006-09-15.akgc1000s.flac16.zip
MP3 Sample: panther2006-09-15sample.mp3

Envelopes – 2006-09-15 El Corazon – Seattle, WA
Download: envelopes2006-09-15.akgc1000s.flac16.zip
MP3 Sample: envelopes2006-09-15sample.mp3

Ratatat – 2006-09-15 El Corazon – Seattle, WA
Download: ratatat2006-09-15.akgc1000s.flac16.zip
MP3 Sample: ratatat2006-09-15sample.mp3

Took me a little while longer to get around to this one, but I did it. This is from the same show as the 2006-08-05 This Will Destroy You DVD.

I was going to put it on Youtube but the songs are split up too awkwardly to make it worth my time. If Youtube didn’t have that ridiculous 100MB filesize limit then it wouldn’t be a problem (or if I was better with wielding XViD encodes, which I’m not).

So, here is the torrent:

Download: sss2006-08-05.vx1000.zr60.akgc1000s.dvdf.torrent

Well, I haven’t taped anything all month and it’s already a quarter of the way through. I only taped four shows in August. I know, I’m a failure.

So I went to this show last night at The Paradox because S is on Suicide Squeeze Records (or she was back when her first album came out) and my boss got me on the guest list. I’m not going to turn down some free concert action. I’m no fool.

I had just been introduced to the music of Wet Confetti the day of the show. I ambled down to Sonic Boom and bought the new volume of Burn To Shine and they had a song on it that I liked a good deal. They’re music is very Dischord-esque in tone and structure. I think that’s why I like it so much. Also, the singer is cute as a button.

Jenn Ghetto (of now-defunct Carissa’s Wierd) is S. She plays with Josh Wackerly (bass) and Zaun Zehner (drums) of Panda & Angel in order to flesh out her solo effort. I really like her 2004 album Puking and Crying but she only played one song off of that album (which wasn’t even completed). Even so, the new songs are pretty great and Jenn is still getting back on her feet. I’m hoping in coming months that the band will get tighter and be able to pull off some great shows.

Panda & Angel, a band I’d never heard of, headlined. They create a layered brand of powerful pop music that is, at times, driven by some pretty funky electronic drums. Overall, I dug the tunes. Track 8 is probably the best song of the show. Also, the bass player (who, I’m told, is the drummer’s girlfriend) is really hot. Just sayin’.

Wet Confetti – 2006-09-09 The Paradox Theatre – Seattle, WA
Download: wc2006-09-09.akgc1000s.flac16.zip
MP3 Sample: wc2006-09-09sample.mp3

S – 2006-09-09 The Paradox Theatre – Seattle, WA
Download: s2006-09-09.akgc1000s.flac16.zip
MP3 Sample: s2006-09-09sample.mp3

Panda & Angel – 2006-09-09 The Paradox Theatre – Seattle, WA
Download: pa2006-09-09.akgc1000s.flac16.zip
MP3 Sample: pa2006-09-09sample.mp3