I mainly showed up to experience the dreamy shoe gaze rock of Brooklyn’s own Dirty on Purpose again. Their songs have a more intense sound live bordering on a more powerful version of Bedhead. This band is quite underrated considering they have released some pretty addicting songs since 2002. They didn’t play “Mind Blindness” but they played a bunch of new ones including “Your Summer Dress” which is one of my favorite songs of the year. Despite losing their female band member over a year ago, they’ve gone on to forge crashing waves of distortion and reverberation into fuzzy songs.
Fujiya & Miyagi is band from Brighton England which has no Japanese members in the band. Although they repeat the name of their band over and over again in one of their songs, these guys are pretty forgettable. The crowd seemed to enjoy the Krautrockish sounds but it sounded just like the record, so I decided to leave halfway through the set so I could just listen to the album at home with much cheaper drinks.
Pictures from the show.
Links:
Mind Blindness: video
http://www.dirtyonpurpose.com/
http://www.fujiya-miyagi.co.uk/