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Current mood:  indescribable Category: Music
Aaron Humphrey, long-time friend of the band and writer was asked to write a bit on last nights show. here it goes...
Hi everyone! I am not in Kindred Fall, but my roommate Ed is. So I am uniquely situated to tell you all about their show at the KNITTING FACTORY in Lost Angeles, California last night.
Apparently the Knitting Factory is a popular and rad musical venue. I didn't know this at first, but after talking to many friends who are not even all that down with musical things and rad things and discovering that they had all heard of it, I learned two things. The first thing is that the Knitting Factory is a popular and rad musical venue. The second is that I am not even as cool as my friends who aren't that cool.
Anyway, they were right! The Knitting Factory is a neat place with a big stage, good acoustics and ten dollar nachos. It's right on Hollywood Blvd, where there are lots of neon signs and people running around dressed like it's Halloween, even though it isn't Halloween, it's only the opening weekend of Harry Potter and the Whatever of Something (no offense to HP fans, I just forgot). So as we walked down this big, fancy and rather famous star-lined B-L-V-D, past breakdancers and tiny girls doing curb-side karaokee, past neon tatoo parlours and malls that look like they are owned by The King of Money, and tourists and bums and rich people who maybe wished they were famous and maybe really were famous, and high school kids dressed up like they werethe stars of Aladdin on Ice, it was clear that on this night and in this place ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN!!
And it was going to.
This was Kindred Fall's first show in Los Angeles, and for the Orange County grown band, it was a big break. Despite what current TV shows may make you think, there is nothing as exciting down here in The OC as world-reknowned rock clubs on streets that blaze with the names of American's greatest entertainers. There may be nothing else quite like that in the whole world.
Love it or loath it, bold, bright LA, both shimmery and slummy at once, IS rock and roll. And so, as it turns out, is Kindred Fall.
The drive up to Los Angeles was crummy and heavy with traffic, which meant the band didn't have nearly as much prep time as they planned, and some of the fans that made the journey up from south OC didn't even get to see Kindred Fall's short set.
I was lucky enough to not have to park, and so I stumbled down the hallways of The Knitting Factory just in time to catch the middle of the first song. They were the opening band on a very full bill and were playing before 8 PM, which is a bit early for rocking out, but Kindred Fall didn't hold back a thing.
The boys bled sweat and music up on the stage and no one in the room could ignore them.
They rocked hard, fast and LOUD (I actually wanted the sound engineer to turn the volume down a bit). Their songs are great tunes on the album, but you really need to see this band live to experience their full potency. Besides their usual repetoir of finely-crafted rockers, Kindred Fall introduced a new arangement of Anyone Can Play Guitar off of Radiohead's first album, which is a one of those rare covers that actually surpasses the original song.
And yes, we are talking about a Radiohead song here.
This is longer than I planned for it to be. I'm sorry. But it really was a pretty great night, and the band gets better every time I see them. A lot of you didn't have a chance to make it to this show (those that did come helped make the night extra great, especially those of you who hung out with me!), but Ed tells me there is a new show in LA coming soon, which should help calm your despair.
You need to come to the next show! I assure you that Kindred Fall will go all-out and rock hard enough to make it well worth your time and money.
Or something.
But seriously, come!
1:15 AM
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