Heather D'Angelo and Erika Forster of Au Revoir Simone
Check out the slideshows for more photos: Au Revoir Simone; Deleted Scenes & The Antlers.
We've been going to rock shows in old Nashville town long enough to know that getting to The End before 10 p.m. usually allows for plenty of time to catch the opening band. And sometimes drink three beers before doing so. But punctuality ruled on Monday night, meaning that all we got to see of local wunderkinds Bows and Arrows was their ability to load amps into a car. (Not bad!) Apparently they went on at the un-Spinly hour of 9:15.
There was a pretty good crowd in attendance—somewhat less of a snake pit than usual, thank goodness, and smartly-dressed. We all got a treat courtesy of Deleted Scenes, who—if they hadn't told us in their introduction—we'd have guessed were either from D.C. or really wanted to be. There was hardly a verse-chorus-verse to be heard in their fidgety, propulsive songs, and they brought some serious heat with their array of delayed guitar, synths of various shapes and neck-vein-bulging vocals.
