Save Your Bullshit For Somebody Else

When I'd say "best band I've seen at The Whitney House all year" it used to mean something, except now it means a lot less seeing as this was only the second Whitney House show I've been to in the last 8 months, unless I just don't know how to count (which is possible). It's not to hard to figure out that the quality of the coverage on this blog is heavily tied to the quality of bands that both The Whitney House and Popeye's Garage bring in, and now that both places are slowing down or have gone under over the past couple of years, well, you see what happens. Downhill fuckin' city. Anyway, Catholic Guilt are from New London -- if you remember Mike from atrilliongallonsofgas (who was also in Ferocious Fucking Teeth for a while), he's in this band -- and yeah, they were pretty impressive. I've been hearing about them for a while (from people in bands who have played The Orphanage), but hardcore isn't the first thing that pops into my head when I think about New London, so I kinda let the talk just wash right over me, but they pretty much tore things up. Seth would probably help me out with the names of a few bands that Catholic Guilt sounded like, only Seth wasn't there that night, so I'm on my own. Maybe powerviolence with some extended heavy stoner/psych parts and a crazed motherfucker of a singer, I guess. Similar to what a bunch of bands Providence and Boston sound like, if that helps you at all.

This was the second time in two weeks that I saw The Excrementals, who're made up of a bunch of New Haven people who've been in a bunch of other bands I've seen before (although for the life of me I can't remember the other band that Joe used to sing for, maybe when I remember I'll edit this) (oh, wait, it was Loach, I think). They're your basic no-frills punk band, not crusty or street or anything like that. Here's a video you can watch, from a show that wasn't at Whitney House:


Sorry that it's so small, but we're way over budget on our video streaming this month.

Just Nod Your Head So They'll Go Away Again

We were told not to park in the church parking lot next door, so I drove around the block a couple of times and just as I was making a right off Washington a cop came up right behind me and turned his lights on for me to pull over. I wasn't doing anything anyway (I was actually kinda driving a little slow and looking for a place to park), so as I started to slide towards the shoulder Mr. Policeman sorta sauntered past me (there was no emergency, obviously) and cut his lights as soon as he was two feet ahead of me, meaning he was being a dick and just wanted me to move out of the way so he could get to the Dunkin' before it closed or whatever. Not that it was the worst thing that happened all night, which was some kid who was at the show getting hit by a car crossing the street, I'm told he's okay now though. I ended up parking in the church lot anyway, as did everyone else. Screw your rules.

Anyway, Blessed State started off their set with a really long drawn out song (unless it was two songs put together, I wasn't really paying attention) which seemed like it wasn't gonna go anywhere but then all of a sudden this great hook just started popping up, like I'm telling you it was a really good song and I started getting into it, and it was fuckin' long, too, I don't usually like long songs. I hope they haven't really finished their record like they say they have and can put this one on it, because it really should be on there, it's really cool. I think they ended up playing one or two other new songs, too, only their set got cut short because the thing that happened outside, but maybe I'll be seeing Blessed State again this weekend and I can figure it all out then.

There were some other bands that played but they were just some people from around, nothing to get too worked up about. That was a joke, you obviously haven't been here before.