Monday, March 2, 2009
The Spin The Features, Cortney Tidwell & Lambchop at a Secret House Show
Posted by The Spin on Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:28 AM
More photos: Lambchop, Cortney Tidwell; The Features.
So, uh, we missed Lambchop and Cortney Tidwell at the super-secret hipster show because we were hanging out with Heather Byrd at the Nashville Nightlife Awards. We made the mistake of thinking that the awards were actually going to be starting early and that we could just show up say our hellos and then roll on over to the house party which would actually get started late. Unsurprisingly, we were wrong on both accounts. When we got to the Mercy Lounge at 8 o'clock, the crowd consisted of The Spin, Ms. Byrd, The 5 Spot's Todd Sherwood and a smattering of Martina McBride super-fans in town for a Wal-Mart promotional show downstairs at the Cannery.
Oh lord, the hair on those out-of-towners! It was like a "Best of Lower Broad" but with longer mullets and more turquoise jewelry verging on a cattle call audition for What Not to Wear. By the time the awards kicked off, we had found the cooler full of free beer and we were feeling randy enough to accept the award for best blogger that we didn't win but we, uh, won because The Spin is like a really verbose, white-belt wearing hydra, and if you cut off one head two more pop up in its place.
As our buzz approached mythological proporptions, we realized that we were actually supposed to be somewhere else, so we hopped a cab over to the awesome indie-rock insider party that you weren't invited to.
When we arrived we were surprised to see that, somehow, Nashville's hipster set actually kept this secret show a relative secret, and the show had started on time--which is not the way things work. We're guessing that sometime between leaving the office on Friday afternoon and leaving the house on Friday night, we had been transported to Bizzaro World Nashville. That would at least explain why our underwear was on backwards.
Luckily, we showed up in time to scarf down some hot chicken, mistakenly rub our eyes with Prince's grease all over our hands and catch the best set from The Features we had seen in a long time. OK, our eyes were welded shut with delicious hot chicken-y pain, so we didn't really see the show, but we can't remember the last time they sounded so fucking killer. It's easy to take Pelham and crew for granted, but it was even easier to well with pride as they peeled the faces of America's indie record store owners.
We're so proud that The Features have taken the reins of their own destiny and are actually succeeding on their own terms. It inspires us to do better, gives us hope that we can and makes us proud of our little hard-working rock scene. Even if our underwear is on backwards.
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Martina gave 'em an encore with "Summer of 69"?! Oh, and the sounds sucks at Cannery, but we know that.
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Who does a Gnome have to blow to get invited to these sorts of gigs?
Best show here in a long time, and I had no clue...
Tobin: We'll skip the b.j. Just reveal your true identity and I'll give you a heads-up on every secret show we ever catch wind of.
I recognize that basement from that awesome How I Became the Bomb/Elekibass show in 2006. But I agree with Tobin, I wish I could've been there, it sounds like a good time (eye melting hot chicken grease aside).
This special show was set up as a showcase of some of our fave local bands, each one featuring a Grimey's staffer, to present to our friends in AIMS and CIMS, the 2 indie record store coalitions made up of some of hte best stores in the country. They were in town for a conference and we put on a showcase for them each night as we were the host store of the convention (most were at The Basement but we wanted the relaxed atmosphere of a private house party on the last night they were in town and Anna offered her wonderful abode). We'd had so many requests for a Lambchop show while they were in town that we tried to make it happen and luckily we did! We wanted to turn them onto Cortney and The Features too. Prince's Hot Chicken was also requested so that was the menu. We also invited some of our friends and a few regular customers to join in on the fun.
So, similar to the Metallica show, it helps to regularly patronize Grimey's and get to know us. That's what indie stores are all about - community. you can get a cheaper price somewhere else usually but are you supporting a scene or making something cool happen in your own back yard when you do that?
Tobin: Just reveal your true identity and I'll give you a heads-up on every secret show we ever catch wind of.
Half the Scene staff knows who I am. Just ask Silverman, or Ridley, or Stabert or Haruch or Tracy. Hell, even P.J. knows who I am.
and there is always: TobintheGnome@gmail.com
Oh I'm aware of that much. I just want you to provide us with a picture of yourself I can use for caption contests/Photoshop ops.
I would hardly call @nna et al.'s friends "the hipster set"! Have you SEEN those people? Even I got invited!
Haha yeah Lance, I agree. Elekibass was awesome, especially when Sakamoto kept cramming bananas in his mouth and continued singing. Whew that was fun, and I am sad I missed this :/
@Emily H.: They seem like hipsters if you don't actaully talk to them, but what else are you gonna call 'em? "People that know way too much about European bootlegs and hyper-obscure indie bands" doesn't really roll off the tongue. Or the keyboard. Or whatever.
You know what I'm trying to say.
Also, if you compare it to the crowd at Mercy, it was definitely a set of hipsters.
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