Music, Bands, etc.

This is not Avril. :-D

The guy on the far left is hiding his face because he's wanted for listening to Nickelback.

Supposedly Vitamin X have been around since the early 1990's, but they haven't settled down.

Vitamin X had as much of the crowd as possible get on the stage and then rush the crowd, jumping into it. It makes a cool video, but mine isn't the best.

I got to see Enough at Cafe na pul cesty back in 2012, and we talked at length. I got to see them at Fluff Fest this year, over the fence as I was pitching my tent, and randomly I met them on the way out. Much more surprisingly, they remembered me.

This was the second As We Were show that I went to, at the After Fluff show at Klub 007. This was where I got to meet them.

This was my second good shot. Again, I was running into the limitations of the cameraphone.

Between Earth and Sky claim to play only infrequently, being more social and political activists than a band. The frontman is Greg Bennick, perhaps best known for his charity work in Haiti. They're promoting a video of this show here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2R1-8afJws As an aside, if this photo looks exaggerated in its contrast, its because I did an extreme edit to compensate for my cameraphone overexposing Greg's face.

I don't remember much about this show, but I liked this cameraphone shot. Technically, it's bad, but bad cameraphone shots can look good when it's of a hardcore punk show.

I got to talk to these guys the previous day, as they had suddenly been invited to do a show off the bill and we had a conversation, leading to my showing up to see them.

Although Cafe na pul cesty is not officially a hardcore club, most of the bands that play there are. However, Žen, meaning "woman" in both Croatian and Czech (depending on the case), were a Croatian space rock band who fell outside this category. They were loud, but the style wasn't anything like hardcore. For much of the show, the guitarist was fiddling with the knobs on her pedals to sustain notes, feedback, and ambient noise for seconds or minutes at a time. The drummer managed to play keyboards at the same time as the drums, too, which is possible if you use the amount of sampling and sustain that this band did.

Here the guitarist is closing the show on her pedals, having laid the guitar aside.

I didn't know much about this band, other than that they were doing a double bill with an Israeli band called "Not On Tour." I figured that at least the second band name probably indicated something worth seeing, so I went to see both.

Here are Not On Tour, a punk band from Tel Aviv. They play a lot better live than they do on their albums. Their Bandcamp site says of their latest album: "Boring album but at least it's pretty short."

I got more good cameraphone shots than I usually do. Taking cameraphone shots at this venue is largely hit and miss. The lighting is fine for people to see the band, but the cameraphone has a lot of trouble with it and I have a lot of trouble gauging what is good lighting as opposed to bad.

Here's another cameraphone shot.

And here's yet another cameraphone shot.

This was part of a triple bill that included Cacory, Gattaca, and Landverraad. This was Gattaca.