03-31 Rock Island, IL – DAYTROTTER*
03-31 Dubuque, IA - The Busted Lift * 04-01 Iowa City, IA – KRUI (Acoustic In-Studio) 04-01 Iowa City, IA - Mission Creek Music Festival 04-02 Iowa City, IA – Catherine’s (Acoustic 1pm MCMF) 04-02 Des Moines, IA – Gross Domestic Product Fest 04-03 Madison, WI - The Frequency * 04-04 Chicago, IL - Pancho's * 04-05 Bloomington, IN - The Bishop * 04-06 Charleston, IL – Friends and Company * 04-07 Champaign, IL – Cowboy Monkey * 04-08 Memphis, TN - Young Ave. Deli * 04-09 Nashville, TN – The Basement 04-10 Knoxville, TN – Longbranch Saloon 04-11 Louisville, KY - Ear X-tacy 04-13 Columbus, OH - Bernie's 04-14 Cincinnati, OH - Comet Bar 04-15 Ft. Wayne, IN - The Brass Rail 04-16 St. Paul, MN – Macalester College 05-07 Iowa City, IA – Gabes ^ 05-14 Des Moines, IA House of Bricks # * w/ Brass Bed ^ w/Ted Leo # Iowa Transgender Benefit (Patrick Solo) |
Attending Poison Control Center and Brass Bed's show last night at the Honey venue was not too dissimilar to seeing a house concert – only with a full bar and a sound system.
I've never been to Honey before, so I arrived a little early just to give breathing room for parking and getting lost. It's in the North-ish area of Minneapolis, in a pretty hipster area with loads of eateries all around. In fact, the actual venue is in the basement, beneath the Ginger Hop restaurant. The stage? There was no actual stage, just rug on cemented flooring. The lighting was also one of the poorest I've seen at any venue, it was very dark and red (red is not a great color to photograph in the dark, it just screams of murder and morbid-ness, if that's a word).
This was my first time seeing Brass Bed live, so this was a nice surprise. Lots of chaos and jumping about and a bit of a keyboard craziness (I didn't know they had keys in the band). I didn't know all the songs, but the few that stood out for me was the new ones, in particular: "People Want To Be Happy (Summertime)" and "Pop Mission" (both from Melt White).
I've previously seen Poison Control Center in Iowa, so I knew what to expect: a lot of time spent playing upside-down and leg-splits, which I'll go ahead and call it PCC gymnastics.
Besides from the high energy, the highlight of the show is for "Magic Circle Symphony", aka "The Cancer Song". Friend of the band, Sara, came on stage to sing the chorus. This was a lot of fun.
They only played four new songs. I am assuming the four songs are from their yet-to-be-released album, Stranger Ballet to be out in June. I didn't know the trumpet song, but this was a good/fun song with everyone doing bad cheesy dance moves. I'm pretty sure they ended their set with "When The World Sleeps", which was really dramatic, followed by an explosion of music.
PCC is probably known for their lively shows, so if you get a chance to see them live, you should definitely check them out. I think Brass Bed's music complement PCC, so having the two go on tour together is a positive thing.
Poison Control Center is returning to Minnesota on April 16th at at Maclester in St Paul.
I've never been to Honey before, so I arrived a little early just to give breathing room for parking and getting lost. It's in the North-ish area of Minneapolis, in a pretty hipster area with loads of eateries all around. In fact, the actual venue is in the basement, beneath the Ginger Hop restaurant. The stage? There was no actual stage, just rug on cemented flooring. The lighting was also one of the poorest I've seen at any venue, it was very dark and red (red is not a great color to photograph in the dark, it just screams of murder and morbid-ness, if that's a word).
This was my first time seeing Brass Bed live, so this was a nice surprise. Lots of chaos and jumping about and a bit of a keyboard craziness (I didn't know they had keys in the band). I didn't know all the songs, but the few that stood out for me was the new ones, in particular: "People Want To Be Happy (Summertime)" and "Pop Mission" (both from Melt White).
I've previously seen Poison Control Center in Iowa, so I knew what to expect: a lot of time spent playing upside-down and leg-splits, which I'll go ahead and call it PCC gymnastics.
Besides from the high energy, the highlight of the show is for "Magic Circle Symphony", aka "The Cancer Song". Friend of the band, Sara, came on stage to sing the chorus. This was a lot of fun.
They only played four new songs. I am assuming the four songs are from their yet-to-be-released album, Stranger Ballet to be out in June. I didn't know the trumpet song, but this was a good/fun song with everyone doing bad cheesy dance moves. I'm pretty sure they ended their set with "When The World Sleeps", which was really dramatic, followed by an explosion of music.
PCC is probably known for their lively shows, so if you get a chance to see them live, you should definitely check them out. I think Brass Bed's music complement PCC, so having the two go on tour together is a positive thing.
Poison Control Center is returning to Minnesota on April 16th at at Maclester in St Paul.
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