I've been making good on my commitment to take in more live music and continue writing about the local scene. I've been concerned lately about the turnout at local shows, but it seems the younger crowd is still coming out in droves for shows. Zack's hosted two local bands, Daydreams and Pink Eraser, plus Vancouver's Woolworm on Saturday, November 14th.
I got to the concert just as Daydreams were finishing up. I heard about two songs from them, so I can't really make an honest opinion about how they were.
After a short break, Pink Eraser played. They've been playing for a couple of years around Kamloops. I liked what they had to offer. It was in the Dinosaur Jr./Buffalo Tom style of grunge, the melodic "wall-of-sludgy-guitar noise" style. The vocals were way down in the mix though, they were impossible to hear, so it felt more like an instrumental band than anything. They got a good groove going though. Total shoegazers though, aside from a few vocals, the band members rarely looked up from their instruments.
Woolworm finished up the show. These guys sounded great on record. Their latest EP, Everything Seems Obvious, is a solid 4 track album of grimy but melodic post-punk. They call their sound "blanket rock", whatever that means. The lead singer was a wide-eyed spastic, grinding out melodic guitar and howling into the mike, whirling himself around in the instrumental parts. Their sound is very reminiscent of early Sonic Youth, sudden, experimental and a bit nihilistic. The band also had a penchant for dropping into bursts of thrashy punk in the middle of a song, and then finishing a song abruptly. Solid, melodic post-punk, a bit unpredictable and very loud.
Zach's, lately, has been doing 2-3 shows a month, sometimes more, with a great variety, from acoustic acts to indy rock to punk and metal. Thanks to Zach's, there's more than a few great venues downtown for music
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