Location: The Flowershoppe
Bands: Tv Coahran, Fought, Right Eye Rita and White Nights
Cost: Donation can
Things I missed to be there: Outdanced! with The Prairie Cartel, Willy Joy, and Jessica from Office at Funky Buddha Lounge; Wingnut Dishwashers Union, Brook Pridemore, Toby Foster, and Animal City Lowercase Collective; Yeabig + Kidstatic, Protman, and The Grand Buffet at Empty Bottle; Retroforward with Kamar and Qbot at Neo
Reason for going: I wasn't going to go out at all until I found out something was happening by my house
Most shows just happen. It's rare that you have a show at a place where the setup has any bearing on what's going on. There's lighting and there's acoustics, but not much else by way of design. Since their inception, it's been an important part of South Union Arts and Reversible Eye, but SUA doesn't book shows during the winter months, and Reversible Eye might not be throwing any shows again. The Flowershoppe isn't the first place you'd look to for ambiance; it's kind of your basic musty garage full of art setup, but there's something to be said for throwing events in an old greenhouse.
The weather was brutal tonight, and right about party o'clock, the skies opened up and the ugly drizzle that had been falling for a couple hours became a torrential downpour. The couches were wet inside the Flowershoppe, and people were running around with buckets trying to catch leaks and keep the water out of the computers and samplers strewn across the floor. You could hear the rain pounding on the glass roof as Fought started his set; it was soon overpowered by a building electronic drone and with that set up, Fought moved on to his drum kit, and just like a movie, the first cymbal crash was punctuated by a flash of lightning. It was an intense set, all electronics and percussion, and strobes of lightning and camera flashes.
There was only... [mind goes blank]
It was a short set [thought trails off]
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