This weekend was the Hamtramck Blowout and a good section of the detroit music was on display for the masses at a price of a 20 dollar wristband most every bar in town was open and filled with bands including Marco Polio!!! I like those guys!!! We played at 10 pm did our thing had a blast and out of necesity dashed to our cars equipment in hand to clear the stage for the next band in the hectic lineup, just as essential as the quick loading was our dangerous dash down the icy unsalted hamtramck sidewalk in an attempt to check out as much music as we could before the end of the night. It was a fantastic mad dash of the many  secrets and certaintys of the detroit music scene.If you've never been to one of these packed hamtramck bars from my point of view it's hard to say you've experienced the detroit music scene.

Seen this weekend Between the two of us were

The Silent Years, Black Reign and Ohkang, Bump, Human Eye Eric Dilworth, Lightning Love, Charlie Slick, Odu Afrobeat Orchestra, The Muggs Deastro, Il Segreto String Quartet, The Marthas and Mick Basset, Zoos of Berlin, Carjack DetroitCobras Lenny Stoofy, Mas!, Love Meets Lust,Dead Bodies, Modernlull, and Pinkeye

I really can't muster the effort right now to explain how much fun I had watching all of these bands do their things, but I regret not one second or one Decision of it.

a Stand out set for me was Eric Dilworth, the Ambiance he created in that room felt near spritual to me and those around.

Biggest Misses( Child bite due to our future show(Future show needs it's own post I think along with the blowout show. I just mostly want to talk about other bands here) I did not get to see Child bites set which was a real disapointment to me, also I was sort of bummed to miss His name is Alive whose set we literally walked into the last 2 minutes of while there were sort of noise outroing. it was a good noise outro, but that's all we caught.

Suprises: Having only listened to his music breifly I didn't really know how I felt about Charlie Slick but what I saw of him I Really enjoyed, He jumped right in to the set with a lot of energy and a song about charlie Bukowski while Gleefully dancing in a strange Herky Jerky fashion that was most entertaining, also the glitter in girl in the front rows beer I'm sure was a highlight for her.

Lightning Love althought different than I  thought they would be crafting these really cute kind of neat little pop songs with Lyrics like Even if you're fugly doesn't matter if you love me...Paraphrasing that but it definetly fealt my heartwarming with the 2 songs I caught, it went right back to ice as they stopped playing, but it was a nice little solar flair there for a moment

Most Dancable. Tie for Odu Afrobeat and Pinkeye...I couldn't stop dancing at either of these sets, not really the kind of dancing I'd do it Caid really though, but I nice change of pace to just sor t of slam around with no other focus than to just get in there with the jam

The stoofy set was also something I want to see more of in the future I liked what they were doing, sort to me had this cool kind of oldschool beck sort of thing going on with it, but like their take on it I was there breifly so I couldn't really say much more about it, but it stood out to me.

That's all I have for now there was more...Much more, but I can't talk it right now

Steve/Marcopolio

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