söndag 30 Dec 2007, 12:33

Sat 29 Dec – His Hideous Heart

This was His Hideous Heart's reunion show!

In August 2007, four sixths of His Hideous Heart went to college, so the band had to stop playing until winter break. While the four who went to college could enjoy doing fun college things, and Jeff has a girlfriend and hobbies, I experienced a very sad time in my life, during which I played a lot of Super Smash Bros. Melee. My friend Cory and I even went to a tournament and competed as a team. I was Dr. Mario and he was Sheik! I also spent a lot of time on this website, memorizing the order of my Top Artists.

Although fun, I went to bed every night feeling that I had accomplished very little. So this show was a wonderful catharsis!

Thanks to all the time I spent on last.fm, I came across Annabel, a band from Kent, and they ended up opening for us! They kick butt! They have only three members, but through a combination of looping, a laptop, and brute strength and determination, it sounds like there are at least five or six people playing. Also their last song (Parade Rest, I think?) sort of reminded me of my #1 band (207 listens) Plastic Mastery (who might fall to #2 next time last.fm updates)!! Anyways, they were a great opener, and I hope we can play with them again!

Then we played! Foremost, we all looked good. We decided to dress up. I was wearing a kelly green sweater with a silver collared shirt underneath. All the babes in the audienced swooned! Awesome!

Also, for the first time, (except in one song, where Aaron was taking a drink of water) we had like white noise in between our songs, so there wasn't an uncomfortable silence. Aaron bought a bunch of effects (all analog!) so he used a delay to make soothing repetitive notes play, and also through some means he made noises that sounded like a spaceship or I think like right before Jeff Mangum goes "Up and o-ver" in King of Carrot Flowers Part 2 and 3.

I think we played considerably well, too. I think it was my personal best performance, and there were no huge errors on anyone's part.

Even though the show went well, I can't help feeling sad, because we're probably not going to have another show until the summer. Super Smash Bros. Brawl comes out in February, but as awesome as it will be, it is still no comparison to playing in a band. Maybe Jeff and I will finally do our side project with just cello and drums. I just don't know!

PS: We have a real professional CD coming out probably in February. So keep your eyes peeled!