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Eyelids Setlist
Muun Bato Setlist
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“We finally made it,” shouted Chris Slusarenko.
After cancelling in June of 2020 due to the pandemic, Eyelids made another attempt in June of 2022, only to cancel days before the show for John Moen came down with Covid. Same venue. Same opening act. Three attempts. Three years later they made it.
Local Twin Cities band Muun Bato opened the evening with a hybrid of 60’s psych-rock meets shoegaze, a sound that the Star and Tribune has described as “elegantly hazy.”
Voted best new band by First Ave in 2019, they opened with “Corn Women” a song off their latest LP Paraphonic Vapor. They played a stripped down version of their band with Joe Werner on lead vocals/guitar, TS Ritter on bass and a rotating duo of drums with Andy Iwanin finishing off the set.
Eyelids next took the stage to John Williams' theme song from the movie ET, as if they were going to magically float off the stage. They might be too “seasoned” for such Peter Pan moves but their latest album, Colossal Waste of Light, is a testament that they know how to play music that Shindig Magazine described as “… once noisy and absorbed, blissful and punchy, moving and anthemic.”
Fun is the word I would use. It was the last leg of their tour and they looked as fresh and excited as a band starting their maiden voyage. Slusarenko could not contain his excitement for playing at Seventh Street for the first time. Moen, the more reserved of the two, could not keep from smiling throughout the set. Slusarenko even broke a string on his guitar during “Runaway Yeah” and told the band to switch up the setlist and go on without him on “Lying in Your Tomb.”
It did seem like the band was building towards something. And by the time they reached “Say It’s Alright” they found a cosmic groove of three guitars, bass and drums all converging into a glorious sound that had Slusarenko crawling under the legs of Moen and guitarist Jonathan Drews, bassist, Victor Krummenacher, stepping up to the front line to lay down a fat groove and Moen joining Paulie Pulvirenti on drums before moving back to his guitar to display some arena rock moves a la Jimi Hendrix.
A great night for loud, boisterous rock n roll!
P.S. With Minneapolis being the last date of the tour, here’s an update from the band and their good travels.
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Christopher Slusarenko writes:
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We done did it!!! Thank you everyone who came out to support us on the Eyelids tour. It means a lot to us.
See you next time…!
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Eyelids at 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (17 June 2023) |
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