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Fans of psychedelic rock and shoegaze music are in for a treat as "Bathysphere: A Psychonautical Voyage" music festival kicked off last night and continues on to today at First Avenue and 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis.
For those new to the legendary First Avenue music venue, there are three stages within the building: The Main Room (First Ave), the Entry (7th Street Entry), and The Record Room (for DJs). For last show, the doorway between the Entry and the Main room was opened and free for fans to move back and forth between the two stages.
Most of the bands on the bill kept to the set time, but we'll learn later that wasn't the case with the Entry stage. Covering both stage proved to be a little difficult since set overlap and sometime you're forced to make difficult decisions to watch one band over the other.
We'll start with the Entry first.
It's tough to be the first band on, especially on the smaller of the two stages. Driftwood Pyre started their set while the vast majority of the audience was still over at Magic Castles, or had not shown up on time. Still, if you missed this band, members of the group would later resurface on the main stage with First Communion Afterparty.
Flavor Crystals were up next, they played hard psych rock in poor lighting. Very little lyrics, but lots of high energy guitar playing with emphasis on psych and kraut rock.
Unfortunately, due to my commitment to cover Cheval Sombre and poor planning on my part, I ended up missing Pony Trash and VonVeederVeld (who was off schedule).
Panther Ray were about twenty minutes late, so I did manage to squeeze in a few songs. I have in my notes that this band is young and good looking, especially with the shorts, side-burns and 60s inspired clothing.
Chicago's Lightfoils was headlining the Entry stage. They played music that was more along my cup of tea, which is shoegazey and maybe dreampop. You know the formula: fuzzy whirlpool of guitar noise and indistinguishable ethereal vocals.
Their brief set included some new songs as well as some tracks from their self-titled EP, including "How It Is" and "Into Deep Sea".
Now for the main stage:
For those new to the legendary First Avenue music venue, there are three stages within the building: The Main Room (First Ave), the Entry (7th Street Entry), and The Record Room (for DJs). For last show, the doorway between the Entry and the Main room was opened and free for fans to move back and forth between the two stages.
Most of the bands on the bill kept to the set time, but we'll learn later that wasn't the case with the Entry stage. Covering both stage proved to be a little difficult since set overlap and sometime you're forced to make difficult decisions to watch one band over the other.
We'll start with the Entry first.
DRIFTWOOD PYRE
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FLAVOR CRYSTALS
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Unfortunately, due to my commitment to cover Cheval Sombre and poor planning on my part, I ended up missing Pony Trash and VonVeederVeld (who was off schedule).
PANTHER RAY
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LIGHTFOILS
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Their brief set included some new songs as well as some tracks from their self-titled EP, including "How It Is" and "Into Deep Sea".
Now for the main stage:
Dean and Britta at First Avenue, Minneapolis (07/05/13) |
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