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“Put on your helmets, bitches!” Fort Collins Natives Elway & Friends Play 3 Kings
Fort Collin’s invaded Denver on Friday, Dec 1st, well okay, not necessarily an invasion, but they definitely sent some hard rocking ambassadors.
Arliss Nancy and Sour Boy Bitter Girl opened for Elway, who all brought they’re respective, yet intermingled genres to 3 Kings Tavern. One band, a little country, another a little Conor Oberst, and the last a little more punk, and in that order too.
The schizophrenic sounding line-up all complimented each other and the venue well. 3 Kings Tavern, a venue that jostles between super awesome and extremely frightening, somehow manages to get a different genre, and thus new crowd every night of the week. One night you could be enjoying a ska-punk show, skanking and chugging 40’s with strangers and the next night you could be seeing “The Show is The Rainbow” (Lincoln, Nebraska) and watching a coked-out, half-naked version of Jack Black running around in circles strangling himself with a microphone chord while spouting off some paranoid nonsense.
And yeah, tonight would merely add to that eclectic mix.
Live Review: The Morning Clouds @ 3 Kings 9/8/2011
Took me forever to actually post the pictures from The Morning Clouds first show. Opening along side the excellent arrangement of Josh Wambeke and his backing band were Shady Elders and Tube Top Crush who at the last minute changed their name but I cant remember what to so I’m leaving it as Tube Top Crush. Great sets by all 3 bands especially Tube Top Crush who carried the Bikini Kill vibe rather well for what looked like a band just starting out. Shady Elders were a little less my style sans a few songs but good god their drummer was fucking glorious! Keep that shit up sir!
The Morning Clouds though for the short time I was there were performed pretty much what you would expect from a band who formed out of the heart and mind of one man Josh Wambeke who wrote and performed all the songs on the EP. I think after a few more shows which from what I hear they have plenty of them coming up, they will meld a little more and become comfortable enough to have a little more fun with the low fi, hook laden songs Josh has composed. Cant wait to hear more from them and keep that shit up Josh Denver has it’s eye on you now.
Live Review: Hindershot @ 3 Kings 7/8/2011
The Hindershot show was heck of a time. I have reviewed their sound in a previous post but they do put on a high energy affair with a very communal type of song style that forces the crowd to get involved and enjoy the hell out of it. Force Publique was the stand out band though and I will be seeing them again definitely. Achille Lauro was just ehh and may require another visit to their live show. The Show is the Rainbow is the lone long haired mad man below. Even though I really didn’t dig his groovy songs, the guy was just a pure ball of white hot light energy. Dancing on tables, bumping into hipsters all the while his laptop of techno beats belted out his siren song that although no one seemed quite into, still remained entertaining. I think his core audience was not the people in that crowd that night but give him some time and you might see him blow up in the Chip Tunes type of fan fare.
