Saturday night we got out of here and got out to k-k-k-k-k-katmandu
Dylan Carlson and EARTH were, unsurprisingly, most kind and rose up to the occasion.
Mike Dillon pulled it off with style and grace.
We were very grateful to be there.
the Indy wrote up a little review of the show. read it below or follow the link.
ALSO, Thrones / Caltrop / in the year of the pig WEDNESDAY MAY 14 @ NIGHTLIGHT:
http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A257663
Independent / May 7, 2008 / ReviewLAST WEEK'S PARTY
05.03 EARTH/ IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG @ KATMANDU
Saturday night's Raleigh engagement with Seattle drone legends Earth didn't have a home for four days last week. After the announcement that Downtown Event Center, the Martin Street space for which the show was originally slated, had closed, D.E.C. booking agent Mike Dillon scrambled to find a new home. His salvation came, of all places, at Katmandu, the Hillsborough Street space attached to The Brewery, known as The Comet Lounge in the '90s and for its role in the Triangle's alt.country boom. Dillon not only met the band's high guarantee Saturday night, but he managed to pocket a cold, hard $5 profit, too.
Oh, and he now claims responsibility for one of this year's best bills: Beneath the neon-green glow of two bright stageside beer signs, Chapel Hill five-piece In the Year of the Pig sounded like our incredible hulks, just faster and brighter and less vulnerable. The band's metallic Motorik menace slapped the room in the ears, like spiky exclamation points stabbing the gaps open for Earth, now a torpid, monolithic, blues-based, heavy-bottomed band with a focus and mettle as elegant as it is arid. Led by Dylan Carlson's pinpoint guitar lines and a rhythm section that plays with the slowest soul you'll ever hear, Earth was a case study in deliberate, perfect execution—and one long comedown from a week of business-of-booking worries. —Grayson Currin