Since Friday broke my months long dry spell of concerts I figured I'd break the dry spell of blog posting. I caught Portastatic at the Warhol on Friday and what a damned fine show it was. I'm borrowing the setlist from Mac's blog:
getting saved
sour shores
through with people
naked pilseners
sweetness and light
oh come down
drill me
arthur dove
cheers and applause
white wave
san andreas
noisy night
bye bye pride
hey salty
baby
Sure I would have loved to hear "You Blanks" but I still can't say one non-positive thing about the night. "Noisy Night," one of my all around favorite tunes, sounded amazing in a more punked up live format. "White Wave" rocks just as hard as some of the metal bands from my old mullet and black hi-top sneaker days. Thanks to someone that posted some clips posted to YouTube from the night's performance you can see just how hard the band rocked during during that song.
The show was even better because I'm typically the solo guy at shows trying not to look like a creep so it was sweet to be there with a friend. Plus I totally owe her friend for dragging us up to the very first row, something I probably wouldn't have had the nerve to do on my own. It allowed me to take some pretty decent pictures:
You can see the rest of the good ones here.
I even like some of the blurrier ones since it gives you a sense of just how hard Mac was a-rocking.
The rest of the blurry, or shall I say "more artistic" shots, are here.
I think it's safe for me to declare "Be Still Please" as my album of 2006. For the second year in a row, Portastatic takes the taco. If you haven't heard it, I recommend buying it right now, but you can also listen to it for free on the Merge site, along with some other killer albums.
