Wow. This just proves the old adage/children’s book title- “If you nominate a mouse for an arbitrary award based on a ballot system passed around between a bunch of bars that also have music sometimes and then have a really fun all day festival where they play alongside their peers and then like a month later award the bands (also mice) that brought the most people to fill out another set of ballots, then some of the other mice that didn’t win the award and their under-age mice girlfriends will bitch on your message board about the entire system being somehow fellatio based and also they will want some milk.”
I play the bass. I often dance about while I play the bass. At least I thought I could dance about while playing the bass.
But then I saw these dudes Natural Selection at the Hi-Dive on friday. Consider myself humbled.
They get down.
I didn’t take that photo, i just wanted u guys to know what they look like. They look kind of like this but the bassist’s hair is [much prettier] shorter now, and they have a different [hipster] drummer.
As a [professional] side man, I generally discourage pre-recorded tracks during live shows. I feel icky putting players out of work, but (seeing as how this group carries a [bad-ass] bassist) I’m going to chill out on that discussion.
You do have to do what you have to do [have to do], after all.
The set was rockin’ in a way that only [white] people playing dance music from two decades ago only semi-ironically can rock. Which is not to say these guys don’t have soul. They have plenty, and they work that soul up to a pretty cathartic boil underneath their thin veil of postmodern-ironic-shiny-panted-shirtlessness. So would the music be as awesome without the P-I-S-P-S? That’s a good question, [team]. I’m not entirely convinced that Natural Selection’s P-I-S-P-S is actually meta or ironic in anyway. I certainly perceived it that way, though.
Were the new-wavers postmodern? Was the Flock of Seagull’s haircut a meta-haircut? Someone consciouss for that decade should let me know.
TRL shoutouts to [Josephine and the Mouse People] and [The Pirate Signal] for excellent sets that night as well.
This is what we’re doing. We’d love it if you’d join us.
August 1st at the Mercury Cafe
This will be a great show, you guys!
The Tanukis are always amazing. Top-notch musicians. Check them out here.
Haven’t seen 200 Million Years yet, but we know the members and they are all incredibly talented dudes. If their Myspace is any indication, we should be in for a face-melting set of fractured pop goodness. Very excited to finally see them play.
Also- it’s at the Mercury cafe, dogs. Unquestionably one of the best venues in the city.
This shit will go OFF.
Hope to see you there- and if you want, I’ll even make out with you afterward.
Leighton Peterson
Vice President of Show Promotion and Gin Consumption – Safe Boating is No Accident Industries
Sometimes it feels like only thing keeping myself (and a good number of my friends) employed is the lack of a well-written computer script that can do our jobs. That’s comforting.
We, Safe Boating is No Accident have determined to expand our presence on teh Internets. We seek to achieve the following:
To spread the truth, which is non-existent
To promote the interests of friends, neighbors, and ourselves
To analyze (respectfully) the world around us
To “cut the shit” and practice responsible honesty
To post “silly pictures” of ourselves and our contemporaries
To give our audience a space to call us “snarky assholes”
and for these ends:
To post as often as possible
To post (hopefully) thoughtful reviews of the work of national/local artists
To post and provide commentary on the happenings of our “local scene”
To not take ourselves too seriously (we might need you to call us snarky assholes)
To glorify and promulgate the rarities in our own record collection.
We promise to be considerate neighbors here on the web, keeping our voices down and confining our outlandish sex romps to weekend nights. We hereby present the blog/website of Safe Boating is No Accident to the world. Come all ye scenesters, hipsters, wanderers, fellow bloggers, fellow musicians, fellow travelers, vampires, trolls, people who called us “fggts” in high school, and even our dear friends @ the Colorado Music Buzz; This blog is for your consideration and criticism. Have at it. Just remember that we love you.
Love,
Leighton J Peterson
CEO- Safe Boating is No Accident Industries LLC LTD FTW
