Archive for February, 2007

These Arms Are Snakes, Akimbo – 2007-02-24

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Watching any performance that These Arms Are Snakes puts on is like dropping a ball of yarn off of the Empire State Building and holding onto to the end of the string. All you can do is watch it unravel and fly around.

Not to say that their shows are an ungodly mess. Quite the opposite. Their performance is an ungodly ball of awesome. It’s just that the frontman, Steve Snere, takes it upon himself to slowly lose it at every show. He doesn’t go into G.G. Allin territory or anything, but he certainly doesn’t “keep it together”. There is seductive dancing on top of the house stacks. There is “oh shut the fuck up” shouted at the crowd. There is undulating of hips on members of the crowd. All of these things and more can be had at a Snakes show.

They played a lot of stuff from the new album and since the new album is kickassawesome, this show was kickassawesome. Akimbo also trotted out some new songs with some face-melting shredding going on. All in all: a fun show to help commemorate the re-opening of The Vera.

Akimbo – 2007-02-24 The Vera Project – Seattle, WA
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These Arms Are Snakes – 2007-02-24 The Vera Project – Seattle, WA
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Om, Grails, Grey – 2007-02-03

Monday, February 26th, 2007

I know I taped this almost a month ago and I’m just now getting it uploaded. I sort of forgot that I recorded this and it sat on my hard drive until this weekend. Sorry.

Not much to say about this show. Three droner/stoner rock bands playing for what seemed like forever. I was a little drunk at the show so it was a good time to just stand there with a huge bottle of Red Stripe in my hand (I seriously didn’t know they made them that huge) and bob my head. And bob my head I did. Not much else you can do at a show like this. And there is nothing wrong with that.

Grey – 2007-02-03 Neumo’s – Seattle, WA
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Grails – 2007-02-03 Neumo’s – Seattle, WA
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Om – 2007-02-03 Neumo’s – Seattle, WA
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Explosions In The Sky on Conan O’Brien 2007-02-20

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Here is an HDTV-sourced XViD capture of Explosions In The Sky’s performance of Welcome Ghosts last night on Conan.