Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Cream Calendar Good Shows Tonight at Brick Factory and Exit/In
Posted by D. Patrick Rodgers on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:15 AM
- Tristen photo: Bekah Cope; CJ Boyd photo: Wayne Bellamy
Brick Factory, the brand-new space in Cummins Station, is a promising new milieu for art shows and concerts indeed. Moreover, Brick Factory — whose proprietors bill themselves as “facilitators of human potential” — will function as a co-op-like collective, where people can pay a membership fee in order to come and go as they please and use the Factory’s woodshop, tools, photography studio, classes and more. It’s a novel, wonderfully community-oriented idea, and one of Brick Factory’s first events is tonight’s show, which will feature music from CJ Boyd, Sugar Sk*-*lls and Kyle Hamlett. Hamlett is the frontman for the transfixing and pensive wintry folk outfit Lylas, and Sugar Sk*-*lls is the blipping, blooping 8-bit project of Ben Marcantel — a project that our own Lance Conzett once described as “somewhere between a really good level of Castlevania and the score for a John Carpenter movie.” And CJ Boyd … well, the last time I saw the exceptionally skilled ambient bassist perform, it was several years ago, and he and his CJ Boyd Sextet were playing a show at a friend’s house in Murfreesboro — and he was nude. They were all nude. Not that he will be tonight. I’m only saying. —D. PATRICK RODGERS
More strangeness than a mere bit of nudity was afoot at that house show, but that's a story for another time. Anyhow, here's the Facebook event page for the Brick Factory show.
And on the exceedingly-more-familiar-but-exceptionally-impressive-bill tip, how about this action: Award-winning pop songstress Tristen, whatever-they-want-doing squawk-folk duo Birdcloud, award-winning guitar virtuoso William Tyler and doubly-dubbed-as-"Nuggets-y" (now triply dubbed as such) psych rockers Ranch Ghost will play at Exit/In. A terribly strong bill with a Facebook event page of its own. That one's $7, and also starts at 9 p.m. Two fine shows. Tough call to make, folks ... or you could shoot for both, like a total pro.
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Are you guys gonna talk about the High Watt or what? It's not really an insider secret or anything.
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@orangeshoekid: Yep, we have a ticket giveaway to that one right here:
http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashvillecre…
@ryan: It's obviously not a secret. Seems like everyone who's been to Mercy in the past month has been granted a tour. But we've been directly asked multiple times not to say anything about it in print or on the blog. "Code stuff," or something. Very frustrating.
Okay, cool, I'm just seeing it on bands' tour pages lately and was just wondering why there's just.....nothing.
Last I talked to the folks associated, they seemed to feel pretty confident that their first shows on the books there (later this month) would still take place. Construction appeared to be really close.
And to anyone reading these comments who isn't sure what we're talking about, I apologize. It's very counter-intuitive to have info on a new venue (What? New venue? I didn't say that, who said that??) and not be able to report it at all. But these things happen.
From what I can gather the ML/CB gang are opening a 3rd (?) venue. Dunno how it will differ from Mercy or Cannery. A certain ML/CB employee posted several demolition pics several moons ago, could possibly be related. Nashville's answer to the 40 Watt in Athens?
ps. Think they'll be hiring staff? Gnomes make excellent workers.
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